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GAssisi I did not want to sound triumphalistic but I wanted to be accurate thust the language Rome wanted to affirm becuase at Trent Rome wanted to affirm her teaching to Protestantism. That was tone of the Council of Trent it was entirely about affirming the Roman Catholic postion in response to the challenge of Protestantism. Rome was fighting for surivival in the Renaissance way she was loosing land and members until Trent and Counter Reformation. THe church needed to react.
The church now is not in the defensive mode that could be percieved as attack mode to some as in trent. THe documents of Vatican 2 are far more ecunemical and less harsh language but that wasn’t the case in Trent so I won’t try to change church history.
And yes the Coptics like I mentioned before had the same tradtion of the canon as we did due to the close proximity of our churches to the early African Councils such as Hippo and Carthage that already dealt with the canon. But neither Council was ecunemical (they were more accurately local synods) or binding upon the Roman or Coptic tradtion. Florence affirmed that yes this is our canon yes this is our tradtion for both churches it was not changing either church tradtion but affirming the common tradition.
Once again this is not the impediment that stopped reunification at the time the Papacy and the filoque clause were barriers that seperated the respective communions. THe same things remain today along with more recent controversies the longer we reamin appart the more issues that sepearte us appear.