At the heart of the Novus Ordo Church there is Ecumenism, a set of heretical and impious practices and beliefs that--officially--aims to bring about "unity" among all those who claim the name of "Christian." While this sounds like a noble and pious goal, the Catholic Church has always taught that the only way to bring about true religious unity is by non-Catholics converting to Catholicism, for only the Catholic Church is the true and only Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ, and only the Catholic Church is the Ark of Salvation, outside of which no one can be saved. The Catholic Church has always issued strong rebukes against ecumenical ventures (Popes Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, and Pius XII come to mind in particular), warning the faithful that such things lead to the ruin of souls. Now that the Novus Ordo Church has eclipsed the Catholic Church since 1958, and by looking at what has taken place since then, we can see in practice just how bad ecumenism is, what fruits it has wrought, and why the Catholic Church is so adamantly opposed to it.
"Such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little, turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion."
--Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Mortalium Animos, par. 2, January 6, 1928
To see how Ecumenism is all about accepting other religions and not about converting them to Catholicism, see these examples:
1st German "Ecumenical Church Day"
"Between War and Peace" Ecumenical Abomination in Aachen
"Ecumenical Commission" in the Diocese of Brooklyn
Official Document: The impious "Directory on Ecumenism" of the New Church (John Paul II, 1993)
"I saw many pastors cherishing dangerous ideas against the Church. . . . They built a large, singular, extravagant church which was to embrace all creeds with equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, and all denominations, a true communion of the unholy with one shepherd and one flock. There was to be a Pope, a salaried Pope, without possessions. All was made ready, many things finished; but, in place of an altar, were only abomination and desolation. Such was the new church to be, and it was for it that he had set fire to the old one; but God designed otherwise."
--from Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Vol. 2, pp. 352-353
The True Catholic Attitude of "Reaching Out" to Non-Catholics is this:"But God forbid that the sons of the Catholic Church ever in any way be hostile to those who are not joined with us in the same bonds of faith and love; but rather they should always be zealous to seek them out and aid them, whether poor, or sick, or afflicted with any other burdens, with all the offices of Christian charity; and they should especially endeavor to snatch them from the darkness of error in which they unhappily lie, and lead them back to Catholic truth and to the most loving Mother the Church, who never ceases to stretch out her maternal hands lovingly to them, and to call them back to her bosom so that, established and firm in faith, hope, and charity, and 'being fruitful in every good work' [Colossians 1:10], they may attain eternal salvation."
--Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, par. 9, August 10, 1863 (Denzinger 1678)
More truly Catholic Resources combating Ecumenism:
Pope Pius IX, Apostolic Letter Iam Vos Omnes
Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Satis Cognitum
Pope St. Pius X, Letter Our Apostolic Mandate on Society and Interreligious Cooperation (1910)
Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Mortalium Animos
Pope Pius XII, Instruction on the Ecumenical Movement (1949)
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"Such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little, turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion."
--Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Mortalium Animos, par. 2, January 6, 1928
To see how Ecumenism is all about accepting other religions and not about converting them to Catholicism, see these examples:
1st German "Ecumenical Church Day"
"Between War and Peace" Ecumenical Abomination in Aachen
"Ecumenical Commission" in the Diocese of Brooklyn
Official Document: The impious "Directory on Ecumenism" of the New Church (John Paul II, 1993)
"I saw many pastors cherishing dangerous ideas against the Church. . . . They built a large, singular, extravagant church which was to embrace all creeds with equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, and all denominations, a true communion of the unholy with one shepherd and one flock. There was to be a Pope, a salaried Pope, without possessions. All was made ready, many things finished; but, in place of an altar, were only abomination and desolation. Such was the new church to be, and it was for it that he had set fire to the old one; but God designed otherwise."
--from Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Vol. 2, pp. 352-353
The True Catholic Attitude of "Reaching Out" to Non-Catholics is this:"But God forbid that the sons of the Catholic Church ever in any way be hostile to those who are not joined with us in the same bonds of faith and love; but rather they should always be zealous to seek them out and aid them, whether poor, or sick, or afflicted with any other burdens, with all the offices of Christian charity; and they should especially endeavor to snatch them from the darkness of error in which they unhappily lie, and lead them back to Catholic truth and to the most loving Mother the Church, who never ceases to stretch out her maternal hands lovingly to them, and to call them back to her bosom so that, established and firm in faith, hope, and charity, and 'being fruitful in every good work' [Colossians 1:10], they may attain eternal salvation."
--Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, par. 9, August 10, 1863 (Denzinger 1678)
More truly Catholic Resources combating Ecumenism:
Pope Pius IX, Apostolic Letter Iam Vos Omnes
Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Satis Cognitum
Pope St. Pius X, Letter Our Apostolic Mandate on Society and Interreligious Cooperation (1910)
Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Mortalium Animos
Pope Pius XII, Instruction on the Ecumenical Movement (1949)
This page will be updated with more information as time permits. Please consider donating to this important cause if it is within your means. All for the Greater Glory of God and the salvation of souls!