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[GSlob]

"The East and the West have their own ceremonial traditions,..."
Maybe the religions should be judged not by their doctrinal, liturgical, or ceremonial aspects, but by the sociological ones - i.e. by what kind of society they tend to create and promote. Then the difference becomes not "filioque", not whether the clergy is shaved or bearded and not whether their ritual headgear resembles the overturned chamberpots or not, but what Huntington in his "Clash" put with breathtaking brevity: "in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar's junior partner" [p.70].

[GCC Catholic]

“We do not ask you, as Rome does, to ’submit’ we only ask, ‘Do you hold the same Catholic faith we have inherited from the Fathers?’ If you do this, we are brothers.”

Even so, the impediments are the same. The one that stands out especially in my mind is that of women "priests." Do the Orthodox say that women can receive Orders? What about the other Mysteries... are they valid? Are the Thirty-Nine Articles compatible with the Orthodox Faith?

Without those issues answered, I find it difficult to believe that any more than a small few slivers of the Anglican Church could ever come into communion with the Orthodox. Maybe I'm wrong (since I say all of this as an outsider), but I am certainly curious.