My Thoughts on the Decree on Ecumenism

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My Thoughts on the Decree on Ecumenism

Many of you might not know that the incredible changes that have taken place in the Catholic world over the past 50 years in the areas of belief, practise and worship are a direct result of the Second Vatican Council, which took place in Rome between 1962 and 1965. But some have argued that the undeniable and revolutionary changes that took place after Vatican II were due to many misrepresentations of the actual teachings of the Council. In this response I will demonstrate from indisputable and well-documented facts that Ecumenism before the Second Vatican Council was always condemned and the Second Vatican Council had no absolute authority to change the Church’s view on Ecumenism and can not be believed by anyone who calls himself Catholic. Vatican II’s document, ‘Unitatis Redintegratio’, contradicted the previous binding infallible and unchangeable teaching of the Catholic magisterium, which rendered Ecumenism null and void. In this response I will not have all the time to deal with all the heresies and errors of Unitatis Redintegratio but only those which I feel are the most significant.

A simple reading of Vatican II’s decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio, makes me wonder how any person claiming to be Catholic could possibly defend this amazingly heretical document. Unitatis Redintegratio easily has more than 20 heresies not all of which I will be able to get into, which makes it one of Vatican II’s worst documents.

Unitatis Redintegratio

1. The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican synod.

Here we’re dealing with direct heresy in the first line of this document. Unity among Christians does not need to be rest...

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...d the gates of hell will not prevail against it (by these we understand the death-dealing tongues of heretics)

The Catholic Church has defined that heretics are the gates of hell, this is why there can never be a heretic in the Catholic Church. A heretic can not be part of the Catholic Church as the Church of Christ and the gates of Hell can not coexist.

Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18, 1208:

By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church, not of heretics, but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of which we believe that no one is saved.

2 Cor. 4:3

And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world (that is, Satan) hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

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