I’d say you are setting up a nice little strawman by charging that the Catholic Church is more about politics than theology these days.
I think a similar charge could be levied against conservative Evangelicals who mix American nationalism with their theology.
The Catholic Church has done a considerable amount to reach out to the Orthodox.
The excommunications between the Church of Rome and Church of Constantinople were lifted in 1965, but the schism hasn’t ended.
My own Church, the Melkite Catholic Church, maintained a double communion with Rome and Constantinople throughout the 17th century until political pressure led to the fragmentation of Church of Antioch into Catholic and Orthodox factions.
My patriarch describes us as Orthodox in communion with Rome because our theology and liturgical patrimony is Orthodox, but we in union with the Pope of Rome.
There are a lot of Catholics who were scandalized by Pope John Paul II’s excessive diplomacy.
Yes, HarleyD’s strawmen. A poster who accepts Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons etc as Christian yet builds up strawmen — what is that?