Do you think the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches will ever reunite?

Seeing as their mutual excommunications were lifted 45 years ago, perhaps we shall see the day where we reunite from within?

BQ: What kind of implications do you think that this would have for Christianity and secular Europe?
2ND answerer:
LOL, those are all Protestants! My question isn't about them. I won't even stick my hands into that mess :-P
We consider each other to be valid, but we are not united the way we were before the schism between Michael Cerularius and Pope Leo IX.

I thought they already have? The Catholic church considers the Greek Orthodox church to be valid...you can even attend mass there on Sunday and still have it count

Nah. You really think so, looking at thousands of sects of Christianity in America?

Yes

Hmmm... I did not know they had buried the hatchet.

I suppose it is possible to reunite.

edit: Possible for the Greeks, Lutherans, and maybe the Anglicans. I don't see the rest of Christianity even considering it.

Wow! reunite from within! Unlike dual French and German citizenship of newborns, it will take quite a bit of intermarriage "within". That will be very slow. The diversity has already made it easier for Rome to reconcile with some of the post-Vatican II, break-offs.

45 years is a blink of an eye in the history of Christianity. Think bigger, 450 years for the reunion "within".

I hope so.
As Pope John Paul II said:
"Our Church needs to breathe with both lungs to survive"

Even though the mutual excommunications were lifted, the doctrinal differences that now separate Roman Catholicism from Orthodox Christianity remain, and have only gotten worse since the Great Schism of 1054.

Beliefs have become different in some areas over the years. The chief differences, and those which precipitated the split between Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism, commonly called the Great Schism of 1054:

Orthodoxy believes
* the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father (Nicene Creed and John 15:26)
* the patriarchs of the various churches have no ruling bishop over them all, always having been organized by councils/synods of bishops

Roman Catholicism believes
* the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (an addition to the Creed)
* the Pope of Rome is the presiding bishop over all Christianity

Additional post-schism Catholic dogmas, required for Catholics to believe, but that have never been Orthodox dogmas:
* purgatory
* infallibility of the Pope
* the immaculate conception of Mary