Pope Francis: Without me there is no Church

There is a lot said about the ecumenical accomplishments the Latin Church has made with the Orthodox Church. On many fronts, I will agree. But, on some things, there still exists a division in ecclesiology that is too far for Orthodoxy to leap. See the below from Rorate Caeli taking a selection from an address he gave to the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General. We cannot affirm that, for the Church to exist, that it be subject to the Magisterium nor that the Petrine office exists solely in the Bishop of Rome. One might say, "In context, he is speaking to Catholics about their understanding of what the Church is. This doesn't mean an end to schism would require obeisance to these ideas or these people (The Magisterium)." I would disagree because little that has come out of Rome has countermanded this understanding of Church and the way the Roman Church operates today shows no such deference to conciliarity. What say you?

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(VIS) - “The men and women of the Church who are careerists and social climbers, who 'use' people, the Church, their brothers and sisters—whom they should be serving—as a springboard for their own personal interests and ambitions … are doing great harm to the Church.” This is what Pope Francis asserted in his address to the participants in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) whom he received in audience this morning. ...

“Your vocation is a fundamental charism for the Church's journey and it isn't possible that a consecrated woman or man might 'feel' themselves not to be with the Church. A 'feeling' with the Church that has generated us in Baptism; a 'feeling' with the Church that finds its filial expression in fidelity to the Magisterium, in communion with the Bishops and the Successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome, a visible sign of that unity,” the pontiff added, citing Paul VI: “It is an absurd dichotomy to think of living with Jesus but without the Church, of following Jesus outside of the Church, of loving Jesus without loving the Church. Feel the responsibility that you have of caring for the formation of your Institutes in sound Church doctrine, in love of the Church, and in an ecclesial spirit.”