The test, of course, as to if a practice of the Latin Church presents a difficultly or barrier to reunion or greater communion with the Orthodox, would be the matters raised by the Orthodox parties in the frequent official dialogues between our two Christian communions.

Other issues, such as those which match some of the common complaints of the Latin Church's Reaction but have never been raised by the blessed Orthodox hierarchs, can be considered issues not of ecumencial consideration but as a means to buttress the Reaction from outside the Catholic communion.

K.