Agreed then. Also, there is a helpful distinction to be had between orthodoxy and ecumenicism.
Very much so! Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I'm very anxious to see the wounds in the Body of Christ healed, which is the goal of ecumenism, but it can only be done with charity and intellectual honesty, or it will not last.
The fractioning of the universal Church has severely impaired the effectiveness of Christianity as a social force as well as a vessel for the salvation of souls. (The two go hand-in-hand, because social influence is a means of evangelization.) The early efforts were largely superficial and have failed, because doctrinal differences cannot simply be ignored or glossed-over. We're now faced with the extremely difficult task of reconciling the apparently unreconcilable, which means that some ideas will prevail and others will have to be abandoned. Few want to face that stubborn fact.