Ecumenical Prayer Week Exposes Apostasy of Conciliar Sect
VaticanNews portal (January 22, 2026) promotes the 118th annual “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,” featuring Fr. Garegin Hambardzumyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The article champions diversity among Christian communities while advocating joint prayer and cooperation with the World Council of Churches and Bergoglio’s conciliar sect. Fr. Hambardzumyan asserts unity requires “no sense of inferiority” among denominations, framing ecumenism as essential for addressing modern conflicts. This apostate narrative betrays the immutable Catholic truth that Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (“Outside the Church there is no salvation”) remains binding for all souls.
Naturalistic Subversion of Supernatural Faith
The article reduces prayer to a sociological tool for “finding meaning and purpose” amid worldly conflicts, stating:
“Coming together as Christians in prayer can help many people find meaning and purpose.”
This divorces prayer from its sole legitimate end: the glorification of God and sanctification of souls (Council of Trent, Session XXII). Pius XI condemned such utilitarian distortions in Mortalium Animos (1928), warning that ecumenical gatherings “falsify the idea of true religion” by treating prayer as therapy rather than submission to Divine Truth.
Heretical Equality Among Sects
Fr. Hambardzumyan’s claim that unity means “supporting one another” without “subordination” or “inferiority” constitutes blasphemous parity between the Mystical Body of Christ and heretical sects. The Armenian Apostolic Church, which rejects papal supremacy and multiple dogmas, receives equal footing with Catholicism. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematizes this:
“In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error #77).
Syncretism Disguised as Diversity
The article praises Armenia’s “Christian identity immersed in national background,” endorsing ethnic division within Christendom. This contradicts St. Paul’s “Non est Judæus, neque Græcus” (“There is neither Jew nor Greek”; Galatians 3:28). Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) declares the Church transcends all nationalisms:
“Not by the will of men but by the will and love of Christ does it excel all other societies in dignity.”
The World Council of Churches—cited approvingly—embodies modernist syncretism. Pius XI denounced such bodies for promoting “a Universal Church of which all existing sects would be component parts” (Mortalium Animos).
Omission of Dogmatic Essentials
Silence permeates the article on three fatal absences:
1. No mention of conversion: True unity demands schismatics return to Rome, not “fraternal cooperation” (Lateran IV, Canon 1).
2. No reference to the Social Kingship of Christ: Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) established Christ’s universal sovereignty, yet the article reduces Christianity to a humanitarian NGO.
3. No warning against indifferentism: Leo XIII’s Satis Cognitum (1896) condemns treating heresy as “legitimate diversity.”
Linguistic Betrayal of Catholic Lexicon
The term “Christian Churches” (plural) smuggles in the heresy of branch theory. Leo XIII’s Satis Cognitum annihilates this fiction:
“The Church is one because its Founder is one… it is absurd to imagine that the body of the Church can be separated from its head.”
Similarly, “common Christian witness” replaces evangelization—a modernist sleight-of-hand excising the missionary mandate (Mark 16:15).
Sacrilegious Roots of “Prayer Week”
The article celebrates Fr. Paul Wattson, an Anglican convert who founded the “Week of Prayer.” Unmentioned is his affiliation with the Americanist heresy condemned in Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae (1899), which sought to dilute doctrine for ecumenical appeal. Pius X’s approval of the event (1909) never extended to joint prayer with heretics, only for their conversion—a fact suppressed by the conciliar sect.
Symptomatic Apostasy of Vatican II
This ecumenical cancer metastasized from the robber council’s Unitatis Redintegratio (1964), which praised “separated brethren.” Contrast this with Pius IX’s Iam Vos Omnes (1868):
“Leave the way of error… abandon heretical doctrines and return to the one Church of Christ.”
The article’s call to “strengthen fraternal cooperation” with apostate bodies confirms the conciliar sect’s total rupture from Catholic tradition.
Source:
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Unity means support, not inferiority (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.01.2026