[George W. Bush]

Do I trust him? Well, he *is* a Pope... :-)

Yup. But they chose rather well, it seems. Orthodox saying nice things, Baptists grudgingly admitting a papal improvement...I've been on a couple of threads where I actually had to defend him from false accusations. Normally, this is not the position a Baptist wants to be in. :-?

[Agrarian]

Ha! Yes, he does make it rather hard to dislike him, doesn't he? I just wasn't aware that Baptists were even falling prey to his attractions. (Maybe he is the beast of Revelation, deceiving even the elect!)

Keep in mind that while things are improving on a theoretical/dogmatic level between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, the practical divergence in worship and praxis has perhaps never been greater. And that is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all to reunion for us.

So while things are certainly getting friendlier, we are centuries away from anything of significance happening...

But I am hopeful for continued improvements under BXVI.