"Ecumenical Follies"
Kasper and the Ecumenical Delusion

A January 13, 2006 report by Cindy Wooden of Catholic News Service provides yet another example of the utter absurdity of the never-ending, but utterly pointless, "ecumenical venture" launched at Vatican II.

Wooden reports on a recent address by top Vatican ecumenist Cardinal Walter Kasper, whose heretical utterances (including a denial of the historicity of the Apostolic Succession) have been chronicled in this column. Kasper, reports Wooden, told an ecumenical congress in Durham, England that "While many of the doctrinal differences that divided Christians for centuries are close to being resolved, different approaches to modern ethical questions are making Christian unity appear as distant as ever."

First of all, there is no sign whatever that "doctrinal differences" between the Catholic Church and the Protestants and Orthodox are "close to being resolved."

For the only resolution that is possible is acceptance of Catholic teaching by the non-Catholic party, and our non-Catholic "ecumenical dialogue partners" are farther than ever from such acceptance.

Quite the contrary, the process of "ecumenical dialogue" constantly reinforces the false impression that if the non-Catholic parties wait long enough, the Catholic Church will alter Her teaching to accommodate their errors.

At any rate, Kasper’s admission that "different approaches to modern ethical questions" are making "Christian unity appear more distant than ever" is an implicit indictment of the entire program of "ecumenical dialogue."

What is the point of seeking "Christian unity" with those who cannot even accept the Catholic Church’s teaching on the moral law — which is to say, God’s teaching on the moral law?

Why should the Catholic Church waste even one additional minute on "ecumenical dialogue" over such questions as the theological status of Mary with people who cannot even agree that abortion is murder and that sodomy is an abominable perversion?

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