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Toward the New Ecumenism, by Philip Primeau – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Toward the New Ecumenism, by Philip Primeau

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By Philip Primeau, Crisis Magazine, May 31, 2024

Philip Primeau is a layman of the Diocese of Providence. His writing has appeared in Catholic World Report, Aleteia, Catholic Exchange, and Homiletic & Pastoral Review.

 

The Old Ecumenism has failed. What we need today is a New Ecumenism, dedicated to unity via full communion with the Catholic Church.

Philip PrimeauNext year marks seventeen centuries since the first ecumenical council. The anniversary is an appropriate occasion for the Church to again commit herself to the project of Christian unity. If the end of the last century saw the birth of the New Evangelization, let the beginning of this century see the birth of the New Ecumenism.

Some orthodox Catholics might balk at this proposal—not unfairly, given the dismal results of the Old Ecumenism, which often seems to accept or even advance the utter fragmentation of Christianity (I use the present tense because this effort has aged but not quite perished). …

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