Regarding the posting of the New Oxford Review article “Reunion Between East and West” here are the words of the then Cardinal Ratzinger:

As far as the doctrine of the primacy is concerned, Rome must not require more of the East than was formulated and lived during the first millennium. When Patriarch Athenagoras, on the occasion of the visit of the Pope to the Phanar on July 25, 1967, addressed him as ‘the successor of Peter, the first in honor among us, the one who has the presidency of love,’ we hear from the mouth of this great Church leader the essential content of the first millennium’s statement about the primacy - and Rome must demand no more than this. Reunion could take place on this basis: that for its part the East should renounce attacking the western development of the second millennium as heretical, and should accept the Catholic Church as legitimate and orthodox in the form which it has found through this development, while, for its part, the West should acknowledge the Church of the East as orthodox and legitimate in the form which it has maintained.

{This quote is found on page 209 of the book Theologische Prinzipienlehre: Bausteine zur Fundamentaltheologie
(Principles of Catholic Theology: Building Stones for a Fundamental Theology). The translation from the original German is made by Fr. Francis Sullivan, SJ in his book Magisterium.}

Fr. Philip,

Not knowing as much as I would like on the differences and history between the two, I agree with you and Cardinal Ratzinger, now B16.

The lack of unity between the various Orthodox Churhes combined with an underdeveloped hermeneutics, in my opinion, are the major obstacles to overcome for full Union.

And I do pray for Union because we need each other to battle the coming secular assault in the U.S. and the entrenched anti-Christian attitudes in Europe and Communist China.

I am not sure what you mean by “underdeveloped hermeneutics.”  I know what “hermeneutics” are. But can you explain how there is an underdevelopment of hermeneutics in Orthodoxy?
Thanks