Dialogue is not simply an exchange of ideas. In some way it is always an “exchange of gifts”.53 29. For this reason, the Council’s Decree on Ecumenism also emphasizes the importance of “every effort to eliminate words, judgments, and actions which do not respond to the condition of separated brethren with truth and fairness and so make mutual relations between them more difficult”.54 The Decree approaches the question from the standpoint of the Catholic Church and refers to the criteria which she