Lux Lucet

Ruth and Naomi Leave Moab, 1860, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872).

Time was when Protestants understood that, “There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ:  nor can the pope of Rome in any sense be the head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself in the church against Christ and all that is called God” (Westminster Confession of Faith, XXV,vi).

But that understanding, which began to die out in the 19th century, is very nearly extinguished among even conservative Protestants in our own time.

In fact, far from viewing the Roman Church-State (RCS) with suspicion, many Protestants, including many influential Protestants, having fallen prey to Rome’s false ecumenical outreach beginning with Vatican II, actually view the Vatican as an ally in the culture war to save Western Civilization

Given Rome’s decades’ long push to co-opt Evangelicals, especially through ecumenical political action in opposition to abortion, it was rather interesting to read a recent article titled Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the USA: A Surprising Ecumenism by Antonio Spadaro S.J. [S.J. means Society of Jesus, indicating the person to whose name it is appended is a member of the Jesuits] and Marcelo Figueroa, in which the authors excoriate American Christian-Evangelical fundamentalists and Catholic Integrationists for pushing what they call an “ecumenism of hate.”

What, you may ask, is this “ecumenism of hate”? Principally, it would seem, it consists in opposition to the Vatican’s push to implement its world-wide, taxpayer subsidized mass immigration / migration / refugee program. One that calls for a massive movement, all in the name of Christian charity, of people from the third-world into Europe and North America, with the citizens of the host nations finding themselves stuck with the bill. All the while, virtue signaling prelates of the RCS preen before the television cameras to lecture the hard-pressed citizens of the receiving nations on their “Christian duty” to do even more.

Write the authors,

However, the most dangerous prospect for this strange ecumenism is attributable to its xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and purifying deportations. The word “ecumenism” transforms into a paradox, into an “ecumenism of hate.” Intolerance is a celestial mark of purism. Reductionism is the exegetical methodology. Ultra-literalism is its hermeneutical key.

There are several observations that can be made concerning this paragraph. In the first place, it is this author’s opinion that Rome’s push for mass third-world and Islamic migration into Europe and North America is not motivated out of a concern for Christian charity, but part of its push for world government.

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