"Are the Lutherans sure they want to be just like us?"

I don't think Lutherans (and other Reform churches like the Anglican) really want to be like us, Michael Watkins; they just want intercommunion. They want to be able to share our Eucharist, go to communion without any membership responsibility. But for the CC (and global Orthodoxy), Holy Communion/Eucharist and membership GO HAND IN HAND. When I am in Germany, Lutherans tell me, "we just want the pope to lift the excommunication on Luther and allow us to receive communion at Catholic churches (not 'crash the party')." The German bishops answer, lifting the excommunication is up to the pope. Intercommunion, however, is out of the question until -- at the very least -- we allow our own divorced and remarried Catholics to receive (without a church annulment). Why allow Lutheran divorced and remarried couples an invitation, a free pass, when we deny our own Catholics one? (Likewise with Reform LGBT clerics in same-sex unions, etc.)