Ecumenical Apostasy Masquerading as Christian Unity
VaticanNews portal (January 22, 2026) reports on Abel Punnoose, a member of the Believers Eastern Church, who participated in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Rome as part of a delegation from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute. The article portrays ecumenism as a noble pursuit of unity among Christian denominations, emphasizing shared prayer, dialogue with antipope Leo XIV, and social justice initiatives. Abel asserts that overcoming internal divisions will strengthen Christianity’s witness in a “divided world,” while praising the humility of the Vatican’s usurper.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Divine Mission
The article reduces the Church’s purpose to a social justice NGO, stating that “giving up comfort for the sake of others is foundational to our faith” and that “migration, persecution, and economic hardship” demand a “united Christian response.” This echoes the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), which exposed the naturalization of Christianity into a “vague humanitarian aspiration.” The omission of grace, the sacraments, and the salvation of souls reveals a complete abandonment of the Church’s true mission: extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation).
Theological Indifferentism in the Guise of “Unity”
Abel’s claim that “you realise that you hold far more in common than what divides you” after praying with heretics is condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928):
“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.”
The Bossey Institute, operated by the World Council of Churches, is a modernist apparatus seeking to dissolve Catholic doctrine into syncretism. The article’s celebration of “lived ecumenism” directly violates the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which anathematizes the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition 18).
Illegitimate Audience with an Antipope
The delegation’s meeting with “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) grants false legitimacy to a usurper of the Apostolic See. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice states that a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope by that very fact.” Since John XXIII, the Vatican has been occupied by figures promoting heresies condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus and Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane. Abel’s admiration for the usurper’s “humility” exemplifies the diabolical disorientation fostered by the conciliar sect.
Casteism as a Smokescreen for Doctrinal Bankruptcy
While decrying casteism within Indian Christian communities, the article ignores the root cause: the abandonment of Catholic integralism. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) teaches that Christ’s kingship demands the social reign of His law:
“Rulers of states… must fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
Instead of demanding conversion to the one true Church, the article promotes the World Council of Churches’ false narrative of “mutual exchange” between the Global North and South. This perpetuates the colonialist heresy that non-Catholic traditions possess “gifts” equal to divine Revelation.
The Silence of Apostasy
Nowhere does the article mention the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass, or the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The exclusion of these truths confirms the conciliar sect’s apostasy. As the False Fatima Apparitions file notes, ecumenism serves as a “tool to divert attention from modernism” and a “Masonic psychological operation.” The “ripple effect” praised by Abel is not the spread of grace, but the erosion of dogma—precisely as foretold in Pius X’s condemnation of Modernist evolutionism (Lamentabili, Propositions 58, 64).
Source:
Ecumenism and its lasting ripple effect (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.01.2026