text: Dear Bill,  As an active Roman Catholic, who has studied the Joint Declaration of 1999 and has read and reflected on the Reformed Affirmation, I agree that more of all our members must be more .familiar with these and other signs  of progress to fuller communion. I too, wish for and desire greater theological and biblical fluency among all Christians. thank you this article, and indeed, I always savor your thought and observations. Pax Christi, Robert Lamb.