Ugh. I am so sick to death of Ecumenism. It makes my skin crawl. All of the "buzz words" are like needles in my ears.
My most hated words at this point:
Dialogue.
Separated Brethren
Mutual understanding.
Mutual exchange of gifts.
Mutual anything.
the "Key" to ecumenism
Here's the real key to ecumenism:
The bishops have to learn the Catholic faith,
The priests have to learn the Catholic faith.
I just spent 3 hours on Friday with a Maronite priest in conversation. It took about an hour for him to open up enough to tell me the filioque is wrong.
Then a little later he loosened up and told me that the Devil and Angels don't exist. That Thomas Aquinas has a fallacy of dualism in his theology,
That Men is the creator of sin. That Demonic possession is actually the spirits of humans who are dead and the possessed person is "in comunion" with them.
That whether there was an actual physical resurrection is unimportant.
And there were many other examples I could present.
How can anyone expect "ecumenism" from priests and bishops that believe this modernism? Answer you can't.
Until Catholics start being taught and believing Catholic doctrine, ecumenism is pointless.
Enforcing a proper dress code would be the first step towards ecumenism. Protestants and I'm sure Orthodox probably look at the mode of dress coming out of Catholic Churches and they know these people don't take anything seriously.
Until the Catholic Church removes the log of modernism from its eye. Ecumenism is pointless and just destructive to the faith of the already confused millions of Catholics.
Sounds more like a relic of paganism than modernism.