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I may not have a clear understanding of ecumenism, I thought it was an attempt to seek common ground as a way to keep the peace; s show of goodwill comparable to public relations campaigns in the secular world...


9 posted on 06/17/2017 12:38:18 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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# 6 Definition of ecumenical 1 : worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application 2 a : of, relating to, or representing the whole of a body of churches b : promoting or tending toward worldwide Christian unity or cooperation — ecumenically play \ˌe-kyə-ˈme-ni-k(ə-)lē, -kyü-\ adverb https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ecumenical
10 posted on 06/17/2017 12:46:17 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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I may not have a clear understanding of ecumenism, I thought it was an attempt to seek common ground as a way to keep the peace; s show of goodwill comparable to public relations campaigns in the secular world... You do have a clear understanding of ecumenism per Vatican II, but before Vatican II this is what the Catholic Church taught:

A similar object is aimed at by some, in those matters which concern the New Law promulgated by Christ our Lord. For since they hold it for certain that men destitute of all religious sense are very rarely to be found, they seem to have founded on that belief a hope that the nations, although they differ among themselves in certain religious matters, will without much difficulty come to agree as brethren in professing certain doctrines, which form as it were a common basis of the spiritual life. For which reason conventions, meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons, at which a large number of listeners are present, and at which all without distinction are invited to join in the discussion, both infidels of every kind, and Christians, even those who have unhappily fallen away from Christ or who with obstinacy and pertinacity deny His divine nature and mission. Certainly such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little. turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion.

Pope Pius XI condemns what you and Vatican II propose. Please, please, learn what the Catholic Faith teaches!

14 posted on 06/17/2017 1:26:29 PM PDT by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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