I guess you have to define unity since the CCC will state that Protestants baptized in the Triune formula are your seperated siblings in Christ. Do you really want another 500 years of division between Catholics and Protestants, considering what God reveals in Sacred Scripture in John 17?
I think when you said according to my understanding. that is it in a nut shell. The Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith. If you believe in that then you are Catholic or have a Catholic understanding. Your understanding of Catholic doctrine is off. I am not sure what you are driving at but until those who currently reject it are not in union with the Catholic Church and what the Catholic Church teaches about the Eucharist has been taught right from the apostles till now.
In a call for unity with the entire body of Christ, we are all united to Christ in one body in reality, but not in spirit of attitude and belief. I am not asking to be in union with the Catholic Church. Can you please explain why the CCC calls me separated brethren in Christ? In my understanding of Scripture, our vital union with Christ is everything. There is no reference in Scripture which makes a requirement to be a member of a particular church, branch, or denomination to be in the body of Christ.
Because you are going by your own definitions and understanding which are not rooted in historical teaching of the Church. You are called separated brethren because while you acknowledge Christ and have a trinitarian baptism, you are not accepting the authority of the Church, able to receive the Eucharist etc. Jesus clearly set up an authority structure with Peter as the rock and it is upon this rock, Christ will build his Church. The rock did not refer to a “confession” but in a person, Peter. “He who hears you, hears me”. Christ did not set up some loosey goosey Protestant style Church. Just read Acts, people were sent to establish Churches, it was an authority structure which still stands today, the Catholic Church. Also read John 6 where Jesus talks about the establishment of the Eucharist. He is very clear that it is His body and blood. In order to have a proper consecration, you need a valid priesthood to do it. When churches broke away in the reformation, their priests/pastor stop being valid because they were no longer under the authority of the Church.
Please stop looking at things from your perspective, then.
The Lutherans (and Anglicans) as exemplified by their posters here are perhaps the closest to Catholics and vice versa. There is relatively not much to concede should they come into communion but nevertheless the differences are there that should be addressed further. But for their more liberal fellow churches, the schism probably is irreparable.
I was on a Protestant site in which a Protestant quoted a whole bunch of Church Fathers to defend sola scriptura.
Instead of reading the Church Fathers, I prefer reading letters and gospel accounts by the Apostles. 
You should read the book “Fathers know best” by Jimmy Atkin which covers what was really taught for the first 700 years of Christian history and it is not sola scripture as some of the sites you are looking at are trying to claim and twist around. Anyone can take a quote out of context but what one should do is read the whole book or sermon or letter of the early church father they are quoting. Even in your reading of the gospel and Act and letters in the NT, you should see that there was a clear authority structure with the apostles and how they handled problems as they arose such as the first counsel of Jerusalem. Those things just did not stop with the death of the apostles but continues on in those they ordained to follow them.I was on a Protestant site in which a Protestant quoted a whole bunch of Church Fathers to defend sola scriptura.
Thanks for sharing staunch Catholic theology. I know of other Catholics who do not take this stance. Let’s go back to the thread topic, and discuss movement toward the unity called by John 17. It is not even worth discussing if you would expect all non-Catholics to become Catholics to move toward unity. When the Pope spoke positively about Martin Luther and faith alone, then that’s movement toward Christian unity. When Catholics promoted ECT 1 and ECT 2, that’s also movement toward unity. When certain Catholics and Lutherans signed the Joint Declaration on justification, then that’s a movement toward Christian unity. How can we move toward additional unity as siblings in Christ who understand some of these issues very differently?
You said it before . . . well you said it better. Frankly, I’m completely open to listening to Catholics about the Catholic Church. That’s one of the reasons I’m on catholics.com.
There are many topics available in the Forum. In fact you can start a thread, possibly one that you like.
As can be seen, the one without organization surely does no better and how they can skew away easily from the faith because they simply have their own little popes.
Oh . . . I’ve been reading threads here that I don’t like a lot. I like to learn what people think.There are many topics available in the Forum. In fact you can start a thread, possibly one that you like.
We cannot get away from topic such as this because it is there and it exist.
As can be seen, the one without organization surely does no better and how they can skew away easily from the faith because they simply have their own little popes.
Fair enough. Even as Christians, we have our likes and dislikes.
There are many such small religious groups … and perhaps every one would claim to be the true one. Sure you can make a personal judgment. This may be a bit harsh, but who are you compared to the great many theologians of the Church to judge the merit of the Church?As far as small religious groups . . . I’d judge them on their merit.
I sincerely ask, and I am speaking in terms of doctrinal truth only (all Christians, regardless of denomination and doctrine, should always possess an abiding Christ-like love for one another):
I can ask you with equal conviction who you are to judge me.