And while both the Western and the Eastern churches still have dogmatic issues to settle, I'm glad we're removing the political issues -- one thing us Catholics need to emphasise (and I think the present Pope is doing a good job on this issue) is that the Pope is but the first among equals amongs the Patriarchate -- trying to establish dominion over the Eastern Churches has led to a lot of (justified) antagonism over the centuries.
I hope we can move past that. We all have to realize that there are forces in this world that are working very hard every single day to dilute, convert, intimidate, change, confuse, kill, reduce, disrupt and DIVIDE Christians.
We must move toward brotherhood.