This is a depressing thread.
As Catholics we are asked to form echumenical relationships with our fellow Christians. This was stressed by Pope John Paul II and now by Pope Benedict.
And to the non-Catholics, we are your brothers in Christ and together we are the body of Christ. Plain and simple.
How on earth, really, can this thread go on with negativity, devisiveness, anger and bitterness?
Please people we have bigger issues facing us than to bring each other down. There are many enemies of Christ, and our fellow Chrsitians are not one of them.
“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
John 15:12-15
Please practice peace, patience and love.
Don't be downhearted about this. The villains in this thread are in the minuscule sub-minority of Christianity.