Most Christian groups now generally accept that baptism incorporates one into the body of Christ. That means that the Protestant is, in Catholic eyes, already within the Church, however imperfectly they may think of them. I say them because I am not a Protestant or a Roman Catholic, I am a five-fold minister that wants to lift the banner of Jesus strong enough to fan the flame of all the lights. The Roman church has made great strides in the last generation toward repentance of past sins, in many ways much more than Protestants. God is bringing us together and the goal of the ecumenical movement is unity.
Unity is a fraud unless it includes full sacramental unity and that means ecumenical unity.
Only when they have ceased saying 'Our Father' will they cease being our brothers. The efforts of John Paul II toward ecumenical thinking has been most recently been misunderstood as if he want all of Christendom to be under Rome. What he wants is that we all be into the same universal communion. This is what God wants as well but those infernal Catholic haters who are under the delusion that the Pope is the anti-christ are getting in the way. It is truly time to stop thinking of yourselves as Catholics and Protestants.