re:Thank goodness he refers to Catholics, which include our Eastern brothers.
You are in denial. The Orthodox are heretics and schismatics. They are not part of the Catholic Church.
The Eastern Rite Catholics are Catholic, like the Ruthenian Rite Catholics in the in Ukraine, or the Greek Catholics, they would find what you just wrote laughable. Learn your faith. Maybe one of them is reading this and he can enlighten you. It’s not my rite.
“You are in denial. The Orthodox are heretics and schismatics.”
If they are heretics, what is their heresy?