“Rome must not require more from the East with respect to the doctrine
of primacy than what had been formulated and was lived in the first
millennium . . . Rome need not ask for more. Reunion could take place in
this context if, on the one hand, the East would cease to oppose as
heretical the developments that took place in the West in the second
millennium and would accept the Catholic Church as legitimate and
orthodox in the form she had acquired in the course of that development,
while, on the other hand, the West would recognize the Church of the
East as orthodox and legitimate in the form she has always had.” Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology, San Francisco, Ignatius, 1987, p. 199.
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