The Church is meant to be a good and secure home in which understanding, tolerance, and support are in evidence. Unity may in part be a by-product of our common faith, our common policies, our common Church Manual , and our shared resources, but achieving unity and maintaining it must be part of a deliberate design. It must be seen as a determined objective that has to be worked at, and not left to chance or something that comes of itself. We have it in what holds us together as one Body. And we have it in our shared history and tradition.
Unity is deep.
It is not made up of a loose collection of segments. Unity is intrinsic and is indivisible. Uniformity is an unnatural collection of many segments pushed together which may impose a strain on our fundamental unity, unless we are open and strong enough to allow room for the variance which is there. And the variance which is to be found among people is simply the elements of a finely woven texture of humanity. Diversity means reciprocal enrichment.