I am convinced that the Latin Church, especially at this time of crisis in the West in general, would stand to benefit immensely from the presence, within it, of the faith, liturgy, witness, yes, even stubbornness, of Eastern Christians. Speaking in earthly terms, we are diminished on both sides by the lack of communion, for Catholicism has seen the growth of a hyperpapalism that diminishes genuine diversity, subsidiarity, coresponsibility, and attachment to venerable tradition, while Orthodox Churches have suffered from phenomena — autocephalism, ethnophyletism, caesaropapism, and pluralism — that diminish their Catholicity, their reflection of the one Immaculate Bride of Christ, the Church in her heavenly splendor.