This is from 2024:
Catholic Answers Says the Canon of Scripture Could Include More Books if the Eastern and Western Churches Unite?
I watched this video from Catholic Answers. Check this out:
Catholic Answers: "An interesting question concerns what would happen if we and the Eastern Orthodox reunited. One of the things that I strongly suspect would happen is we would say, "Okay, the issue of the exact border of these books did not divide us before the separation, and so it doesn't need to divide us now." In fact, I was reading just yesterday a quotation from Joseph Ratzinger, where he said that in order to reunite with the Orthodox, we shouldn't require more of them than what they believed before the separation, and they should not regard anything that's happened in Catholicism since the separation is heretical. So we'd have a situation where within the Catholic Church, you have two opinions. Applying that to the canon, you would have one opinion in the Western Church that, "Okay, the proto-canonicals and the seven deuterocanonicals that Catholics accept are Scripture, and within the reunited Eastern Orthodox Churches, you would have the opinion that the proto-canonicals and the seven plus books that are deuterocanonical that they accept are Scripture, and these two views could live alongside each other without a problem." Let a few centuries go by, the Church might decide to revisit the question and hypothetically could accept those books, but we're getting into pretty speculative territory here."

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