Blessed Dominic Barberi: promoter of ecumenism?

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I don’t see Blessed Dominic Barberi as a promoter of ecumenisism myself.

He was sent to England with one mission - to convert her back to Catholicism. But Blessed Dominic spoke no english, so his mission was going to be extremely tough. He was faced with great opposition, not only by Protestants, but also by the local Catholics, who feared his arrival in the strange Passionist habit would bring further prosecution. But he struggled for years preaching to everyone that would listen and the people listened and many became converted. He did this with love and compassion and the truth. If that is considered ecumenisism, than so be it.

IMHO, it was the truth of the faith, along with Blessed Dominics love and understanding of our seperated brothers in Christ, his patience and deep devotion that won so many converts.

And now the foundation of truth that he layed at Englands feet over 125 years ago, is now coming to full fruition as the Anglicans are making a serious move to come back to the Catholic faith! God Bless this wonderful little Italian priest, the most unlikely among us, for converting this great country back to the faith!🙂
 
I’d like to add this quote from Pope Paul VI in 1963, during the Second Vatican Council. In his homily at Blessed Dominic’s beatification Pope Paul said of Dominic -
“he was a man of both prayer and action: we know that Father Dominic was great master of asceticism, indefatigable preacher, apostle and expert apologist of the contemporary thought of his time”
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I highlighted “expert apologist”, to further strengthen my belief that Blessed Dominic was not an ecumenist, but a true believer and defender of the faith…
 
The title of my post is rhetorical, of course. Bl. Dominic was the antithesis of today’s wooly-headed ecumenist, and he would be appalled at the political pandering that characterizes the modern ecumenical movement. I’m not sure where the Superior General of the Passionists got the idea that Bl. Dominic was a precursor of today’s ecumenism. It’s clearly not accurate.
 
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