Koinonia on ecumenism
It has not so much been a slow news week as I just returned from traveling and had little posting time. Here is a statement in response to this thread that I think stands on its own merit. The points will be familiar to anyone who has entered into a discussion of this topic. Reading through the thread, I am increasingly concerned by what I read here. There seems to be a desire on the part of some to make all council ecumenical. It appears to me that (and again, only for some) any suggestion that a council is not ecumenical calls into question either (a) the integrity of the teaching or, and this is much worse, (b) the integrity of the speaker who points out that the council is not ecumenical. Reading through the comments, and again so it appears to me, there seems to be a desire on the part of some to claim for their own positions an ecumenical authority and to object when that authority is denied to them. A council need not be ecumenical for its teaching to be true. And the true teac...