The conciliar sect’s “EWTN Noticias” portal (January 22, 2026) promotes the “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” through Dominican “Fr.” Nelson Medina’s statements. The article champions ecumenical dialogue with heretical sects under the theme “One Body, One Spirit,” advocating shared sacraments and collaborative social action while paying lip service to avoiding “doctrinal confusion.” This initiative epitomizes the apostate inversion of Catholicism’s missionary imperative, replacing extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (“outside the Church there is no salvation”) with a naturalistic unity cult.
Ecumenism as Apostasy Against Divine Revelation
Medina’s assertion that Christian unity constitutes a “common objective for the Church” directly contradicts the infallible condemnation of religious indifferentism in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “16. Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation… 18. Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.” The article’s promotion of joint prayer with heretics violates Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Mortalium Animos, which forbids Catholics from participating in “pan-Christian” gatherings since “the unity of Christians cannot be otherwise fostered than by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
The modernist reduction of unity to “serious theological study” ignores the Church’s perennial teaching that heretics and schismatics severed themselves from Christ’s Mystical Body. As Pope Leo XIII decreed in Satis Cognitum: “The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium.” Medina’s ecumenism operates on the condemned Modernist principle that dogmas evolve through dialogue – a heresy explicitly anathematized in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 22).
The Eucharist Profaned Through False Irenicism
The report admits Anglican heretics received “Communion” during ecumenical services, which Medina lamely describes as “a source of scandal” rather than sacrilege. This sacrilegious act flows inevitably from the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Eucharistic discipline, betraying the Council of Trent’s anathema: “If any one denieth, that faith alone is a sufficient preparation for receiving the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist; let him be anathema.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 731 §2) forbade sacramental sharing with heretics under pain of excommunication, recognizing that such acts implicitly deny the Catholic Faith.
Medina’s lament about “doctrinal or liturgical confusion” rings hollow when the article promotes joint social activism with sects denying transubstantiation, apostolic succession, and the sacrificial nature of the Mass. The Dominican’s concern for “clear parameters and guidelines” ignores his sect’s fundamental rejection of Catholic parameters – namely, that Anglican orders are “utterly null and void” (Pope Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae). To suggest that theological differences can be papered over through shared environmentalism or opposition to euthanasia reduces the Church to a political NGO – precisely the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 80).
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith
The article’s focus on “defending life, ecology, and justice” as common ground with heretics inverts the hierarchy of truths. While the natural law binds all men, the Church’s primary mission remains the salvation of souls through propagation of the One True Faith. Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishes Christ’s Kingship over all creation: “Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ.” By reducing collaboration to temporal concerns, the conciliar sect fulfills the Masonic dream of replacing the Social Reign of Christ with humanitarian platitudes.
Medina’s reference to “the Gospel according to St. John, chapter 17” deliberately omits Christ’s prayer for unity “that they all may be one… that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17:21). The true Church has always understood this unity as visible submission to Peter’s successor – not the false “spiritual unity” peddled by ecumenists. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mystici Corporis: “Only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed.”
Omissions That Condemn
Nowhere does the article mention:
- The necessity of conversion to Catholicism for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, Council of Florence)
- The apostolic mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19)
- The Church’s exclusive possession of the means of grace through valid sacraments
These silences prove the conciliar sect’s complete rupture with Catholic Tradition. The “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” constitutes not merely error, but formal cooperation in the sin of heresy – a betrayal of the Church’s divine constitution for the sake of Masonic-inspired universal brotherhood. As Pope St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The Modernists… lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fibers.”
Source:
Why the Church dedicates a week of prayer for Christian unity (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.01.2026