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How can info from "BeginningCatholic.com", be listed under a "ecumenical" heading, when it is clear enough that the aim is not necessarily ecumenical or "uniting" in nature, as it is much more proselytizing for one particular religious organization above all others, in form?

It's stealthily done, sure enough. But blatantly obvious, at the same time.

Please, if you wish to proselytize, I ask that you do so openly, or else, somewhere else, other than behind the cover of "no antagonism" rules, on ecumenical tagged threads, on FreeRepublic.

Your list of links here, sort of proves my point? That this all about proselytizing to the Roman Catholic Church? "Unity" being only accepted, under that particular heading?

How is that posture "ecumenical"? I don't get it, for it does seem totally exclusive of all else, including "all else" of Christianity, as it exists today in this world.
I say exclusive, for it doesn't take long, in digging into the links you post, to find the claim of there being only ONE "church" (which I can agree with, in Spirit) equates with that one being solely and only, the "Roman Catholic" one.

A great many of us, find there is nothing particularly ecumenical in nature, about that claim. Yet there it is, easy enough to find (in the links you proffer).

Should we have a proselytizing corner or some such, for these sort of threads? I can imagine it could turn contentious, but it would be more open, and honest.

I can see how you might need to post somewhere other than a closed caucus thread, for the aim is not to just preach to the choir, right? Yet this seeming posturing of ecumenical spirit... (by having that tag) when it is clear enough no such "spirit" is the aim, leaves me cold.

Again, I ask that you leave the tag "ecumenical", off of, your own proselytizing threads. Please, be honest with yourself in this. Continuing on in this way, is an abuse of the word and classification of the word ecumenical.

Please think this over carefully before hitting the "abuse" button. Thank you.