tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post5416450134778617408..comments2024-03-28T09:54:55.115-05:00Comments on Dad29: The Pope's Ecumenical AddressDad29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-71131010681975036982008-04-22T16:52:00.000-05:002008-04-22T16:52:00.000-05:00I know of no rush of converts because of recent ec...I know of no rush of converts because of recent ecumenism. More people came into the Church because her Truths and being the Rock of Jesus' Teaching. People convert when they are humble of heart and truly want the truth and want as much of Jesus as they can get. Pandering to heretics does not nurture conversions. Truths do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-13494917722406031662008-04-22T11:23:00.000-05:002008-04-22T11:23:00.000-05:00Pope Benedict has for some time been concerned abo...Pope Benedict has for some time been concerned about how 'Ecumenism' has played out post-Vatican II. While pre-Vatican II there was a sense of triumphalism about Catholicism ("We're right. You're wrong. End of story."), since then many have come to the conclusion that: "We're really all the same, right?" So if we differ on some things, what's the big deal? We all believe in Jesus, so we're all okay, right? It doesn't matter what church you go to, or that you even go to church. We can all pray to God anywhere.<BR/><BR/>And those sentiments are often expressed by 'Catholics'...! Thanks to decades of watered-down - or outright heretical - catechesis, many Catholics don't even know their own Faith, their own Church. This bears out Chesterton's words that: <I>"It is not that the Catholic Church has been tried and found wanting. It is that it has not been tried."</I><BR/><BR/>We will not convert unbelievers by just 'being nice', much less by glossing over fundamental Doctrinal differences between the True Church and the pale imitations. Only by standing fast to the Truth will other see the Catholic Church for what She is - the One True Church, the One with the fullness of Faith, the One against whom the Gates of Hell will not prevail.<BR/><BR/>So without being triumphalist about it, the fact remains: the Catholic Church has it all, as Our Lord intended. Anything else will always be something less.GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.com