Marc, neither are the Orthodox ;), they (the Vatican) don't get it...By the idol being what it is, it's even worse, than if it were a horrible statue of the Theotokos. The latter could have justification, the former absolutely not.
Amongst my former brethren the Orthodox, I don’t think many were very enthusiastic about Francis for a multitude of reasons prior to this. Rome will never win back the Orthodox by going further down the crazy train (well, except the Greeks, who want to co-pilot).
Long, long before anyone thought about calling anything "Modernism," the Church was engaged in seeking unity in the Body of Christ. Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of the Modernists, didn't appear until 1907.
One could say that at any time there has been a rupture in the unity of Christianity, the Catholic Church has been motivated to seek reunion. We do this because 1) we know that it is the will of Christ that we be one, 2) we know that, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it can be accomplished, and 3) we know that our divisions impede the work of evangelizing non-Christians.
Maybe PF and the hierarchy should put "ecumenism" on the back burner and instead focus on healing the serious rifts in the Church between the Catholic faction and the Protestant (heretic) faction.
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Or, there may not be any truth to it at all.
I can’t imagine our separated brethren the Protestants are very enthusiastic about Francis’s idol worship.
Marc, neither are the Orthodox ;), they (the Vatican) don't get it...By the idol being what it is, it's even worse, than if it were a horrible statue of the Theotokos. The latter could have justification, the former absolutely not.
Amongst my former brethren the Orthodox, I don’t think many were very enthusiastic about Francis for a multitude of reasons prior to this. Rome will never win back the Orthodox by going further down the crazy train (well, except the Greeks, who want to co-pilot).
Father don’t trash Ecumenism it’s the Modernist precious.
Are you doing TLM this Sunday?
Looks like Pope Francis was serious about God willing, not just permitting, the diversity of religions after all.
Ecumenism isn't a "Modernist" anything.
Long, long before anyone thought about calling anything "Modernism," the Church was engaged in seeking unity in the Body of Christ. Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of the Modernists, didn't appear until 1907.
One could say that at any time there has been a rupture in the unity of Christianity, the Catholic Church has been motivated to seek reunion. We do this because 1) we know that it is the will of Christ that we be one, 2) we know that, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it can be accomplished, and 3) we know that our divisions impede the work of evangelizing non-Christians.
Maybe PF and the hierarchy should put "ecumenism" on the back burner and instead focus on healing the serious rifts in the Church between the Catholic faction and the Protestant (heretic) faction.
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