Our mutual history since the Reformation's beginnings has been shameful. The real issues were not theological but more about power and governance and freedoms. The Catholic counter-Reformation was also full of disciplines and rigor mortis in our development of theology, social thought and a return to absolutes that were insisted to be divinely attributed. Our final act with the declaration on infallibility closed the door on discussion, argument and even association with our Protestant family, leadership or communities. We have indeed met the enemy: it is us.