Ecumenical Prayer Week Masks Apostasy Against Christ’s Kingship
The CatholicNewsAgency portal (January 22, 2026) promotes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity through statements by Dominican “Fr.” Nelson Medina, who claims this initiative fulfills Christ’s prayer “that they may all be one” (John 17:21). The article describes ecumenism as collaboration with Protestants and Anglicans on moral issues while avoiding “doctrinal confusion,” presenting it as obedience to “Pope Francis'” direction. This constitutes a direct assault on the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the Social Kingship of Christ.
Ecumenism as Heretical Substitution for Conversion
Medina’s assertion that “the victory over sin is always unity around the truth and love in Christ” perverts the Catholic understanding of unity. True unity requires submission to the Roman Pontiff and profession of the one true Faith – not interdenominational gatherings. Pope Pius XI condemned this false ecumenism in Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it” (1928). The article’s proposed “common understanding” with heretics directly violates the Council of Florence’s definition that “the Holy Roman Church believes, professes and preaches that no one remaining outside the Catholic Church… can become partakers of eternal life” (Session 11, 1442).
The theme “One Body, One Spirit” constitutes theological fraud when applied across denominational lines. Saint Paul explicitly defines this unity as existing within the Church: “One body and one Spirit… one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph 4:4-5). The 1917 Code of Canon Law forbade Catholics from participating in non-Catholic worship (Canon 1258), yet this article promotes joint prayer services as virtuous.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The reduction of Christian collaboration to shared activism on “gender ideology, euthanasia, and pro-life issues” exposes the modernist substitution of natural ethics for supernatural faith. While pagans can recognize natural law principles, true unity comes only through submission to Christ the King. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishes that “Christ has dominion over all creatures… by right of the hypostatic union” (1925), making national conversion – not political alliances – the solution to moral decay.
Medina’s complaint about intercommunion scandals reveals the bankruptcy of conciliar ecumenism. When the “Anglicans started receiving Communion” at joint services, he admits this causes confusion – yet fails to condemn it as sacrilege. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who “say that communion under both kinds is necessary… or that the Catholic Church has not been authorized by Christ to approve of the reception of one species” (Session XXI, Canon 1-3). By treating Anglican orders as potentially valid, the conciliar sect betrays sacramental theology.
Omission of Required Doctrinal Conditions
Nowhere does the article mention the sine qua non conditions for Christian unity established by pre-conciliar popes:
1. Recognition of papal supremacy (Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam)
2. Acceptance of all dogmas defined by the Magisterium (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors)
3. Abjuration of heresy through the Profession of Faith (Pius IV, Iniunctum Nobis)
Instead, it promotes a false “ecumenism of theology” that treats heresy as legitimate theological diversity. The 1907 decree Lamentabili Sane condemned the proposition that “Catholic dogmas in no way agree with the real beginnings of the Christian religion” (Proposition 3) – precisely the historical relativism underpinning modern ecumenical dialogues.
Continuation of Apostate Vatican II Agenda
This prayer week constitutes implementation of Vatican II’s apostate document Unitatis Redintegratio, which falsely claims the Holy Spirit uses Protestant communities “as means of salvation” (3.3). Saint Robert Bellarmine demolished this heresy centuries ago: “Outside the Church there is no salvation… therefore Lutherans and other heretics cannot be saved unless they repent” (De Controversiis, Tomus III).
The article’s reference to “Pope Francis'” ecumenical vespers service confirms the conciliar sect’s complete rupture with Catholic tradition. True popes like Pius IX condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 80). By organizing joint prayers with Orthodox schismatics, the Vatican occupiers commit spiritual adultery against the Bride of Christ.
Silence on the True Remedy: Social Kingship of Christ
The gravest omission lies in the complete silence about the only solution to Christian division: the universal reign of Christ the King through the Catholic Church. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The conciliar sect replaces this divine mandate with humanistic dialogue committees and interfaith photo opportunities.
Until the Vatican occupiers demand Protestants abjure their heresies and submit to Rome, their ecumenical efforts remain what Saint Pius X called “the summation of all heresies” against the Faith (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). True unity exists only where Peter’s successor governs in accordance with perennial tradition – not in the conciliar sect’s apostate structures.
Source:
Why the Church dedicates a week of prayer for Christian unity (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.01.2026