[Kolokotronis]

"He [Kuraev] says that while in the West the ecumenically-minded Roman Catholics are theological conservatives who long for an injection of Orthodox fundamentalism, in Russia the voices clamoring for speedy reunion with the Western Church are the liberals whose hope is to water down that very fundamentalism. I think he is correct on that."

I agree 100%. It is equally, if not more, true with the Greeks and the Arabs.

[annalex]

It is equally, if not more, true [that the Orthodox voices clamoring for speedy reunion with the Western Church are the liberals] with the Greeks and the Arabs.

I did not realize that. This points to the fact that the planets are not aligned at this time for reunification, contrary to what I thought.