The pope killed any ecumenical honesty when he declared that he doesn’t consider the participants in his discussions to be real churches.
“My way or the highway” is how I read Benedict.
I will remain unfettered except by Jesus’ call that true believers be united in true unity.
You can (and should) do that when you have the Truth of Christ on your side as the Catholic Church does. Relativism just don’t cut it.
FRiend, it wasn't Ratzinger who made that declaration. That declaration has been around for a long, long time. Say about 5-600 years. See the Decree on Ecumenism that I cited a couple of posts up from here. (The distinction is if a valid apostolic succession is maintained or not whether a group is considered a "church" or an "ecclesial community")
But we've had this discussion a few hundred times already, haven't we?