The Council of the Catholic Patriarchs of the East is increasingly demonstrating an institution capable of dialoguing with the Eastern religious and civil realities and building bridges for a common path.

In this attitude the firm distance assumed in the last pastoral Letter to Western culture assumes a significant political weight, a desire to impose its own qualitative parameters and policies of economic and strategic interest in the Land of the East.

However, the Western secular system is considered a desirable model even in the Eastern world.