By Raymond de Souza, KHS, KM, Church Militant, April 23, 2021
Raymond de Souza, KHS, KM, is a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a knight of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta and a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus. …
Today’s ‘ecumenism’ is flawed reductionism
Part III of a three-part series on Church teaching on ecumenism. Read Part I and Part II.
Christ is truly present in the Eucharist
If our ecumenical endeavors do not seek total unity in the truth — that is, in dogma, morals, government and worship — all we will be doing is simply being polite, comparing notes and opinions, making comments on our own beliefs and ending up saying, “Well, that’s what we believe and, in the end, surely we worship the same God, and what really matters is what you have in your heart. So we just agree to disagree.”
Is that really the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer for us to “be one as He and Father are one”? Does that mean we are intimately united among ourselves as the Persons of the Trinity are in their one nature? …