***Mark, it’s an over-simplification of the situation with that statement. That’s NOT how it is. It’s how it should be - if Rome and the East were in Communion. They’re not.
My friend Theodoris K will correct, revise, and extend my statements here, but I think that it is important to point out (at a minimum) that Orthodox theology hasn’t changed since the Great Schism. Latin theology has undergone some innovations (the Roman take on Original Sin, the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Theotokos to name but two) that the Orthodox Laity would never accept.***
Oh, I agree. The innovations are being scaled back, and the Latin Church is being force marched back towards Orthodoxy. That is why we need your help possibly more than you need ours. We need to jettison the Protestant innovations that infest us like lice.
Hail fellow, well met. I hope you understand that I have meant no personal offense with anything I have said to you.