Conciliar Sect’s Ecumenism Undermines Catholic Identity and Christ’s Kingship
The EWTN News portal (January 23, 2026) reports on comments by Mr. Philip Goyret, professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, who asserts that “Christian identity” is vital to counter secularization and advance ecumenical unity under antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). Goyret claims ecumenism strengthens Christian witness amid declining faith, praising Leo XIV’s motto *”In Illo uno unum”* (“In the one Christ we are one”) as a policy of unity. The article references Leo XIV’s May 2025 loggia address urging a “united Church” and July 2025 interview where he prioritized “help[ing] people understand… who we are.” Goyret compares this approach favorably with antipopes Bergoglio (“Francis”) and Ratzinger (“Benedict XVI”), citing the latter’s *Anglicanorum Coetibus* and the former’s emphasis on the title “bishop of Rome” to appease Eastern schismatics. The 2026 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, themed “One Body, One Spirit,” is framed as necessitating prayer rather than “negotiation” to achieve unity.
Ecumenism as Apostasy Against the One True Church
The conciliar sect’s promotion of ecumenical dialogue constitutes a fundamental betrayal of Catholic dogma. The article’s assertion that Christians must “be united” while “secularization is incredibly strong” ignores the immutable teaching that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (“outside the Church there is no salvation”). Pius IX condemned the idea that “men may find the way of eternal salvation and attain eternal salvation in the practice of any religion whatsoever” (*Syllabus of Errors*, Proposition 16). Goyret’s claim that unity requires “not losing identity” is sophistry, as true unity demands submission to the Roman Pontiff and rejection of heresy—not interfaith hand-holding.
Leo XIV’s motto *”In Illo uno unum”* perverts Christ’s prayer for unity (John 17:21) by implying schismatics and heretics are already “one” with the Church. This contradicts Pius XI’s condemnation of ecumenism: “There is but 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 of those who are separated from it” (*Mortalium Animos*, §10). The antipope’s July 2025 statement that “we are disciples of Christ” while omitting subordination to Peter’s successor reveals the conciliar sect’s naturalism—it reduces the Church to a human society rather than Christ’s Mystical Body.
Undermining the Social Kingship of Christ
The article’s lament over “secularization” rings hollow while promoting a unity detached from the Social Reign of Christ the King. Pius XI established that “Christ has authority not only as God but also as Man over all creatures… princes and rulers are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (*Quas Primas*, §§18-19). Yet Leo XIV’s May 2025 call for a “united Church” absent explicit submission to Catholic truth facilitates the very secularism he pretends to oppose.
Goyret’s praise for Bergoglio’s use of “bishop of Rome” to court Eastern schismatics exposes the conciliar sect’s disdain for papal primacy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “The Roman Pontiff is the true Vicar of Christ and visible Head of the whole Church” (*De Romano Pontifice*, II.30). By reducing the papacy to a primacy of honor, the antipopes deny its divinely instituted authority. Similarly, Ratzinger’s *Anglicanorum Coetibus*—hailed as ecumenical progress—merely created an Anglican-rite ghetto within the conciliar sect, preserving liturgical aesthetics while gutting doctrinal clarity.
Vatican II’s Poisonous Fruits: From False Unity to Apostasy
Goyret cites Vatican II’s *Unitatis Redintegratio* and *Lumen Gentium* as foundations for ecumenism, but these documents enshrine theological bankruptcy. *Unitatis Redintegratio* §3 claims the Holy Spirit uses heretical sects as “means of salvation,” directly opposing Pius XII’s teaching that “the Mystical Body of Christ and the Catholic Church are one and the same” (*Mystici Corporis Christi*, §13). *Lumen Gentium*’s vague description of the Church as a “sacrament… of unity” (§1) erodes her identity as the sole ark of salvation.
The article’s insistence that unity is a “gift of God” not achieved by “negotiation” is belied by the conciliar sect’s decades of syncretistic gestures—joint prayers with pagans, kissing the Koran, and invalid “intercommunion” agreements. True unity requires abjuring error, not interfaith photo-ops. As St. Augustine warns: “Unity without truth is false peace” (*In Epistulam Joannis*, I.1).
The Week of Prayer: Syncretism Disguised as Piety
The 2026 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity theme—”One Body, One Spirit”—parodies St. Paul’s exhortation to the Corinthians (1 Cor 12:12-13) while evacuating it of Catholic content. The article’s claim that Christians must unite against secularism ignores that the conciliar sect itself is the primary agent of secularization. By treating heretics as “separated brethren” rather than souls to be converted, the antipopes accelerate apostasy.
Leo XIV’s call to “pray for unity” while refusing to condemn heresy exemplifies Modernist duplicity. Pius X condemned such ambiguity: “The Modernist sustains and propagates a philosophy from which the doctrine of the Church cannot escape unharmed” (*Pascendi Dominici Gregis*, §13). The conciliar sect’s ecumenism is not a path to unity but a suicide pact with the enemies of Christ the King.
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Christian identity vital amid aggressive secularization, ecumenism expert says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.01.2026