FrTomOFMCap
FrTomOFMCap

Assisi's scandal and apostacy. The religion of ONU

This is an Orthodox video, obviously, and too easily accuses others of apostasy. Praying in the same place in silence is not the same as praying together. While I have reservations about some of these activities (they go too far in the interests of peace) and I oppose the use of Churches for non-Christian, non-Catholic worship, I think it is also heretical to deny that God as our Creator is also, …More
This is an Orthodox video, obviously, and too easily accuses others of apostasy. Praying in the same place in silence is not the same as praying together. While I have reservations about some of these activities (they go too far in the interests of peace) and I oppose the use of Churches for non-Christian, non-Catholic worship, I think it is also heretical to deny that God as our Creator is also, since we are ALL made in the Divine image and likeness the Father of all and so anyone who genuinely seeks the truth and follows the law in their heart is pleasing to Him (Rom. 2:14-15). Indeed in denying the good in other cultures and religions there is an implicit denial of God as Creator and of the value of the Incarnation. For in becoming incarnate the Son came to redeem all humanity - our cultures included. That is partly why the early Church rightly did not oblige us to circumcision. We do not have to become ethnic or religious Jews to be members of the New Israel established by Christ. Perhaps it is because I am a member of a culture that has been Christian for over 1500 years and has still abandoned its roots that I can see this.
These meetings may have been hi-jacked by others but the good they do God alone can measure. The beatification of Pope John Paul II is not an affirmation of everything he did or said but of the working of the Holy Spirit in him and the resultant personal holiness. Why be nasty, why doubt the Church on this matter? Why start on the road down which all who oppose the Church take - the denial of any truth at all?