False Ecumenism of Vatican II

In our day we are all too familiar with the false "ecumenism" that has progressed since the close of Vatican II; making a mockery of our Catholic Faith. We will here be contrasting the Traditional Catholic Church and some of the teachings and practices post Vatican II. At 12 noon on Friday on August 19, 2005 we saw Benedict XVI travel to a Jewish synagogue in Cologne, Germany where he was present and participated with Jews in their worship service.

The second council of Constantinople states:

"If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting-houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of communion. If any bishop or priest or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from communion."

The Fourth Lateran Council declared:

"We decree that those who give credence to the teachings of the heretics, as well as those who receive, defend or patronize them, are excommunicated. ...If anyone refuses to avoid such accomplices after they have been ostracized by the Church, let them also be excommunicated."

We see from Benedict XVI:

“Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! We are gathered, Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants – and together with us there are also some Jewish friends – to sing together the evening praise of God… This is an hour of gratitude for the fact that we can pray together in this way and, by turning to the Lord, at the same time grow in unity among ourselves… Among those gathered for this evening’s Vespers, I would like first to greet warmly the representatives of the Orthodox Church. I have always considered it a special gift of God’s Providence that, as a professor at Bonn, I was able to come to know and to love the Orthodox Church, personally as it were, through two young Archimandrites, Stylianos Harkianakis and Damaskinos Papandreou, both of whom later became Metropolitans… Our koinonia is above all communion with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit; it is communion with the triune God, made possible by the Lord through his incarnation and the outpouring of the Spirit. This communion with God creates in turn koinonia among people, as a participation in the faith of the Apostles…” (Address during ecumenical Vespers service)

We see from the Council of Laodicea:

"No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics."

And from Benedict XVI:

"We are gathered, Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants – and together with us there are also some Jewish friends – to sing together the evening praise of God…"

And Pope Pius XI:

"Is it permitted for Christians to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate together under a single agreement everyone who, in any way, lays claim to the name of Christian? In the negative! ...It is clear, therefore, why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics. There is only one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ for those who are separated from her."

Benedict XVI:

"We are gathered, Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants – and together with us there are also some Jewish friends – to sing together the evening praise of God...This is an hour of gratitude for the fact that we can pray together in this way and, by turning to the Lord, at the same time grow in unity among ourselves…"

Pope Leo the Great:

Wherefore, since outside the Catholic Church there is nothing perfect, nothing undefiled, the Apostle declaring that "all that is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23), we are in no way likened with those who are divided from the unity of the Body of Christ; we are joined in no communion.

Benedict XVI:

"Among those gathered for this evening’s Vespers, I would like first to greet warmly the representatives of the Orthodox Church. I have always considered it a special gift of God’s Providence that, as a professor at Bonn, I was able to come to know and to love the Orthodox Church, personally as it were, through two young Archimandrites, Stylianos Harkianakis and Damaskinos Papandreou, both of whom later became Metropolitans… Our koinonia is above all communion with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit; it is communion with the triune God, made possible by the Lord through his incarnation and the outpouring of the Spirit. This communion with God creates in turn koinonia among people, as a participation in the faith of the Apostles…"

And now Pope Gregory XVI:

“Be not deceived, my brother; if anyone follows a schismatic, he will not attain the inheritance of the kingdom of God.”

Benedict XVI:

“Distinguished Chief Rabbi, you were recently entrusted with the spiritual guidanceof Rome’s Jewish Community... I offer you my heartfelt good wishes for your mission, and I assure you of my own and my collaborators’ cordial esteem and friendship.” (Address to Chief Rabbi of Rome, Jan. 16, 2006)

The Traditional teaching concerning Jews:

“To judaize, namely to observe Saturday, or other Jewish ceremonies, is mortal [sin]: because that pertains to the superstition of a false divine cult, according to Cajetan, in his summa. If however one observes Saturday, not for the purposes of a Jewish rite, but for some other pious reason, such as to venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary, he would not sin mortally. To converse with Jews is forbidden at Canon Law, in many places in the capitular De Judaeis etc. 28 q. 1 Capitular Nullus, etc and all of them regarding assiduous, and familiar conversation, due to the danger of subversion, and especially in ten cases is it forbidden...The same, because this would cause too great a familiarity, and consequently a danger of subversion, as supra. I say the same for the consumption of their azyme. To do all of that is mortal. To eat food with them when one has a choice is never permitted, apart from extreme necessity.” - Fra Bartolomeo Fumo, O.P., Inquisitor General for the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza, +1542 A.D. (Citation from the medieval Inquistor’s manual explaining what can and cannot be done vis-à-vis Jews, based on the canonical legislation promulgated by Pope Gregory IX in A.D. 1234, in the capitular “De Judaeis”.)

Benedict XVI:

“The difficulty in the way of giving an answer is a profound one. Ultimately it is due to the fact that there is no appropriate category in Catholic thought for the phenomenon of Protestantism today (one could say the same of the relationship to the separated churches of the East). It is obvious that the old category of ‘heresy’ is no longer of any value. Heresy, for Scripture and the early Church, includes the idea of a personal decision against the unity of the Church, and heresy’s characteristic is pertinacia, the obstinacy of him who persists in his own private way. This, however, cannot be regarded as an appropriate description of the spiritual situation of the Protestant Christian. In the course of a now centuries-old history, Protestantism has made an important contribution to the realization of Christian faith, fulfilling a positive function in the development of the Christian message and, above all, often giving rise to a sincere and profound faith in the individual non-Catholic Christian, whose separation from the Catholic affirmation has nothing to do with the pertinacia characteristic of heresy. Perhaps we may here invert a saying of St. Augustine’s: that an old schism becomes a heresy. The very passage of time alters the character of a division, so that an old division is something essentially different from a new one. Something that was once rightly condemned as heresy cannot later simply become true, but it can gradually develop its own positive ecclesial nature, with which the individual is presented as his church and in which he lives as a believer, not as a heretic. This organization of one group, however, ultimately has an effect on the whole. The conclusion is inescapable, then: Protestantism today is something different from heresy in the traditional sense, a phenomenon whose true theological place has not yet been determined.” (The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood, pp. 87-88)

Pope Pius XI:

“… the heresies begotten by the Reformation. It is in these heresies that we discover the beginnings of that apostasy of mankind from the Church...” (Rerum omnium perturbationem, #4)

Pope Pius IX:

"Protestantism is the Great Revolt against God."

This is truly a departure from the Teachings of the Catholic Church. We see so many contrasts between the traditional magisterium and the new V2 magisterium. The above is a tiny taste of the many radical departures of the Vatican II Church in dogma, practice and sacraments from the traditional dogmas, sacraments, and practices of the Traditional Catholic Faith, divinely inspired and defined by the traditional Magisterium of the Catholic Church. Benedict XVI is but a symptom of the many problems and errors of Vatican II brought about in a spirit of heretical modernism, regurgitating all of old heresies previously condemned and ambiguously and in a subtle manner slip them into accepted Catholic Churches, catechisms, seminaries, and colleges; where a modernism divorced from Traditional Catholicism is promulgated, rejecting the traditional Catholic faith of old that made saints who worked wonderful miracles and effected countless conversions. Our Lord said that we would know them by their fruits.
Their fruits are barren, reprobates abound who place scandal on Our Lord claiming the Catholic name while committing some of the worst acts possible, breaking nearly every commandment, miracles of mass apostasy from the faith, which could only have been by a miracle, but not from God. Divorce, annulments in the hundreds of thousands, most of them invalid, pedophiles in the seminaries and Churches, bishops and priests teaching error and allowing error to prosper alongside immorality while doing nothing to suppress it; while asking parishioners to fork out the money to get them out of a rut that they got themselves into. This is why the question begs to be asked: Catholics, Where has our Church gone?