"Catholics", Anglicans walk the talk as they "seek unity"
The Catholic Church ALREADY has UNITY. Heretics and Schismatics must return to the Faith. Vatican II new doctrine is that we are searching for truth and ultimately when the one world religion is formalized they will say they have found it! Apostates! Can you say "evolutionism", progressivism?. Masonic ecumenism is just the holding point until that time arrives...
The article from the Novus Ordite website Crux is below...
Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of
Canterbury, England, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, holds a
replica of the staff of St. Gregory the Great given by Pope Francis at a
vespers service at the Church of St. Gregory in Rome Oct. 5. (Credit:
CNS/Paul Haring.)
A Catholic participant in Anglican/Catholic dialogue says that ecumenism leads to “loving desire for that which appears good and attractive in the other,” adding that, "at its heart, ecumenism is about falling in love with the grace of God in the other.”
VATICAN
CITY - If Christians are called to live their faith concretely, then
they cannot leave out concrete signs of the unity to which Jesus calls
them, both Anglican and Catholic leaders say.
And just because the formal Anglican-Roman Catholic
theological dialogue has been forced to grapple with new church-dividing
attitudes toward issues such as the ordination of women and the
blessing of same-sex marriages, it does not mean that common prayer led
by Anglican and Catholic leaders and concrete collaboration by Catholic
and Anglican parishes are simply window dressing.
Dozens of Catholic and Anglican bishops and several hundred
priests and laity from both communities gathered in Rome in early
October to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican meeting of
Blessed Paul VI and Anglican Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury,
almost 50 years of formal theological dialogue through the
Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (known as ARCIC) and
the 50th anniversary of the Anglican Center in Rome.
The celebrations, highlighted by an ecumenical evening
prayer service Oct. 5 with Pope Francis and Anglican Archbishop Justin
Welby of Canterbury, coincided with a meeting of a newer body, the
International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission,
known as IARCCUM.
The commission brought together 19 pairs of Anglican and
Roman Catholic bishops from the same country or region to examine how,
acting together, they could witness to the faith and serve those in need
locally and recommend ways for Catholics and Anglicans globally to do
the same.
Canadian Archbishop Donald Bolen, the Catholic co-chair of
IARCCUM, said the common theological agreements forged by ARCIC and
accepted by both churches, were never meant to sit on a library shelf,
but “to transform our communities.”
“Every agreement of faith we register” should translate into
“common prayer, common witness, common study, common mission, a common
ecclesial life,” said the archbishop, who is about to be installed as
head of the Archdiocese of Regina, Saskatchewan.
While sharing the Eucharist still is not possible, the
IARCCUM process is designed to encourage Catholic and Anglican
communities to do together everything possible based on the beliefs they
share and on the conviction that mission and ministry to a divided
world require a common Christian witness.
In his homily at the ecumenical evening prayer, Pope Francis
urged Catholic and Anglican bishops, before undertaking any new
initiative in their dioceses, to ask if it is possible to do the project
together with their Catholic or Anglican neighbors.
As Pope Francis said Oct. 1 in Georgia when asked about
Catholic-Orthodox relations: “Let’s leave it to the theologians to study
the things that are abstract.” Everyone else in the church should be
asking how they can relate to other Christians as brothers and sisters.
The answer, he said, is: “Friendship. Walk together, pray
for each other, and do works of charity together when you can. This is
ecumenism.”
During a conference Oct. 5 at the Pontifical Gregorian
University reviewing the work of both ARCIC and IARCCUM, Bolen said,
“You may say, and many have said, there are obstacles - including new
obstacles - that separate us,” but those issues “shouldn’t really derail
our ecumenical relations” because the relations are motivated by
Jesus’s prayer that his followers be one so the world would believe.
The pairs of IARCCUM bishops, he said, had spent days
discussing the challenges their people are facing: challenges of
poverty; threats to human life, including euthanasia; a massive influx
of refugees and migrants; war and violence; and increased
secularization. “We need to be together. We need to build bonds of
communion between our churches, and the world needs that.”
Anglican Archbishop David Moxon, director of the Anglican
Center, said that through the work of ARCIC, “We have been given
significant common ground on which to stand.” He listed the agreed areas
of faith as including: baptism, belief in God as Trinity, the church as
communion, and Scripture as the living word of God.
Additionally, there is substantial agreement on the meaning of ordained ministry and on the Eucharist.
Paul Murray, a Catholic member of ARCIC, spoke about the
ecumenical process as one involving prayer and friendship, “unpicking
the knots” of past misunderstandings, recognizing legitimate differences
and sharing the gifts and strengths one community sees in the other.
Basically, there is a sense of ecumenism leading to “loving
desire for that which appears good and attractive in the other,” he
said. “At its heart, ecumenism is about falling in love with the grace
of God in the other.”
Paula Gooder, a biblical scholar, one of the “Six Preachers”
at Canterbury Cathedral and an Anglican member of ARCIC, spoke of the
conviction that progress in the theological dialogue is possible, but
only if “we move away from wishing other traditions could be just like
our own.”
Welby told the conference that 50 years of Catholic-Anglican
dialogue means members of the churches know that “we love one another.
And at that point, we have to start talking honestly, more honestly to
each other and not putting out the best china” or pretending to be only
holy, healthy, and strong.
Particularly by using the method of ecumenism espoused by
IARCCUM, he said, Anglicans and Catholics can heal the wounds they have
inflicted on each other and on the Body of Christ “not especially by
looking at each, but by walking side by side into a wounded world and
seeking to heal the world, and in so doing, finding we heal one
another.”
The Church does not teach dialogue it teaches conversion which the Vatican II sect rejects, therefore, there is no need to even dialogue in the first place...
