Their pope then should have no problem in encouraging all religions to join the Baptist church...
That's funny, but we know what the answers to that would be like.
We've been seeing them in close detail for year after year on this forum.
No matter what the objection to ultimately -- surrendering to Romish popey-dopey blathering "just think of it like this" regarding any particular issue or theological framework, all the rest of the ceaseless RCC promotion does come across as a siren-song of sorts, a come into my parlor said the spider to the fly, although there are also Roman Catholics who seem to be ok with the recognition that not all are going to submit themselves to the tender (and in past ages at times murderous) mercies of 'Rome' for hosts of reasons.
Ratzinger page 202,
But we can define the required action even more clearly in terms of the above diagnosis. It means that the Catholic does not insist on the dissolution of the Protestant confessions and the demolishing of their churches but hopes, rather, that they will be strengthened in their confessions and in their ecclesial reality.
He's trying to let go of those things which separate, yet the RCC won't let him (he is a prisoner of 'Roman' Catholicism...in all of his thinking, much as he himself remarked that Luther was) in end results himself not capable of letting go of all of Romish types of thing (such as "papacy" as that known of among those of the Church of Rome) even as seeming to my own eye as desiring to distance himself from the past excesses of it. (pages 185, and 195-198).