" I would venture to say that fact is significant, since Moscow halds the numerical key to Eastern Orthodoxy."
Like I said, +Benedict XVI is a very smart man! :)
What do you think of this idea, my friend?
The non-convert Romans and the non-convert Orthodox get together and, as Benedict said, "listen to the other, understand his confrontations, eventually accept his apologies, and the gift of self", and re-establish what Pope Benedict XVI called "that full and living communion so longed for by Jesus in the Upper Room".
And then we could leave the zealot-convert Romans and the zealot-convert Orthodox = all of whom were something else a few years ago (usually Episcopalians or Evangelicals or disaffected Romans) and none of whom suffered the centuries-old atrocities over which they hold such feverish and freshly-minted grudges (what Pope Benedict called "the worm of resentment gnawing away in the soul"), and while the rest of us celebrate the eucharist together, they can exchange anathemas and excommunications - and give Monty Python something to make funny movies about!
And leave the rest of us re-united Christians alone!
I think it sounds like a plan!