Ecumenism (audio only)

Bishop Donald Sanborn

Playing time: 21 minutes

1.  A movement promoting unity among Christian churches or denominations.
2.  A movement promoting worldwide unity among religions through greater cooperation and improved understanding.

Ecumenism - Syncretism and Indifferentism Repackaged

At the heart of the Novus Ordo Church there is Ecumenism, a set of heretical and impious practices and beliefs that--officially--aims to bring about "unity" among all those who claim the name of "Christian." While this sounds like a noble and pious goal, the Catholic Church has always taught that the only way to bring about true religious unity is by non-Catholics converting to Catholicism, for only the Catholic Church is the true and only Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ, and only the Catholic Church is the Ark of Salvation, outside of which no one can be saved. The Catholic Church has always issued strong rebukes against ecumenical ventures (Popes Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, and Pius XII come to mind in particular), warning the faithful that such things lead to the ruin of souls. Now that the Novus Ordo Church has eclipsed the Catholic Church since 1958, and by looking at what has taken place since then, we can see in practice just how bad Ecumenism is, what fruits it has wrought, and why the Catholic Church is so adamantly opposed to it

"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 acknowledgement 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, Encyclical Mortalium Animos, par. 2, January 6, 1928

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