Posted on 01/26/2026 6:09:55 PM PST by ebb tide
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Pope Leo XIV concluded the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by declaring that different Christian faiths are already “one.”
“We are one! We already are! Let us recognize it, experience it and make it visible!” Leo said in his Sunday homily on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul at the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls in Rome.
As Vatican News put it, he stressed how “different Christian religions share the same faith.” His remarks were addressed to clergymen of schismatic and heretical churches, including the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the Anglican Communion.
Leo’s claim directly contradicts Catholic teaching as laid out in the Catechism of St. Pius X, according to which the Church is united by the “same faith,” “same worship,” “same law” “and in participation of the same Sacraments, under the same visible Head, the Roman Pontiff.” Therefore, schismatic churches that reject the authority of the pope, such as Eastern Orthodox churches, and heretical sects such as the Anglican Communion cannot be said to be unified, or “one,” with the Catholic Church.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent affirms, “It is the unanimous teaching of the Fathers that this visible head is necessary to establish and preserve unity in the Church.”
Likewise, in the encyclical Satis Cognitum, promulgated on June 29, 1896, Leo XIII taught that Christian unity is grounded in shared faith, the sacraments, and governance. The document explicitly rejected the idea of an invisible or merely spiritual Church and affirmed that full unity requires adherence to the authority established by Christ in the Catholic Church.
In his Sunday homily, Leo XIV also invoked Pope Francis’ claim that the “synodal” path of the Catholic Church “is and must be ecumenical, just as the ecumenical journey is synodal."
“As we look toward the 2,000th anniversary of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus in 2033, let us commit ourselves to further developing ecumenical synodal practices and to sharing with one another who we are, what we do and what we teach,” Leo said.
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Pope Leo XIV and his "conciliar church" is the antithesis of Pope Leo XIII and the preconciliar Catholic Church.
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He’s making this up as he goes along. Maybe pick up a Bible, Pope.
Catholicism IS NOT Christian! Far from it. It is closer to a pagan cult!
“His remarks were addressed to clergymen of schismatic and heretical churches, including the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the Anglican Communion.”
Yah thats a bit too large a grouping to make such a sweeping statement in an ecumenical grouping.
Its over generalizing, and therefore misleading.
Was this supposed to be a Caucus thread or was it intentially open to many?
“ Catholicism IS NOT Christian! Far from it. It is closer to a pagan cult!”
Martin Luther pointed this fact out many years ago.
The RCC has been trying to reunite Christendom for a while.
A personal story:
I was baptized Greek Orthodox but raised RC and sent exclusively to Catholic School. When it came time for Confirmation, I had to sit it out. The reason is that in the Greek church you’re confirmed when you’re baptized, and so in the eyes of the RCC I had already been confirmed (it’s “one and done”). If they had let me go through the RC Confirmation sacrament, it would mean they didn’t recognize the Greek Orthodox Confirmation, which they do. Never in a million years would they suggest otherwise. They want to reunify the churches.
Whether that would be good for the Greek church, given how the leadership of the RCC has gone after JPII is debatable.
How did he feel about the mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses?
What about those who believe Christ is the head of the Church, not the Pope?
You’re either saved by the blood and acceptance of Christ or you’re not. It’s pretty simple. God makes it that way. Praise Him! Not some doofus in a hat nor some craved rock.
To say nothing of more outré outfits such as Mormons?
Yawn. It takes so little to get the anti-Catholic crazies around here all ginned up. I don’t mean you, of course. Yours was a well reasoned exposition
Catholicism IS NOT Christian! Far from it. It is closer to a pagan cult!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
And you received this revelation directly from the Holy Ghost, right? Question: Are you literate, i.e., can you actually read?
governance = “vicar “ of Christ= Pope Leo. Do you think it will get any better with the cardinals he appoints? Get out now, why defend the indefensible ? Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Or stick with Cardinal Tobin and defund ICE.
Oh noes!! Are you feeling some microaggression? Quick, run to safety in a Caucus thread before the Prots respond.
Well played.
That’s mighty white of Pope Leo to welcome other faiths into the flock.
My understanding is that if the article/topic mentions or involves other denominations then it can’t be a caucus thread.
Fortunately, I don’t need the Pope to tell me I’m a Christian.
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