The really pathetic thing in this is that Rome is tempting the Orthodox with individualism. We can join Rome organizationally, but they'll let us maintain our own doctrine? The last time I checked, the Church is a communion founded on common belief.
Before I left the Episcopal Church, I recall a meeting of a group I belonged to of supposedly Catholic minded folk. They all complained of doctrinal and liturgical silliness (I hesitate to call it heresy as such a notion has no meaning in the Episcopal milieu), but it was okay because they could each retire to their home and practice the faith their way. That's not Catholic, that's heresy almost by definition.
The filioque, IMO, kills the deal from the start. Its not okay that we don't have to say it. The issue isn't that, its that the notion is wrong in the first place. I do not confess the same Christianity as a Roman Catholic (here not meant pejoratively, but rather referring to the Roman Rite), period.
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