Many in leadership positions within the Church have lost the faith. They no longer promote the Catholic Church as the One True Church established by Jesus Christ for the salvation of souls. Instead they seek to build a One World religion, combining all religions - the true with the false.
Ann Catherin Emmerick: "They built a large, singular, extravagant church which was to embrace all creeds with equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, and all
denominations, a true communion of the unholy with one shepherd and one flock. There was to be a Pope, a salaried Pope, without possessions… All
**was made ready, many things finished; but, in place of an altar, were. only abomination and desolation. Such was the new church to be". **
Cardinal Walter
Kasper, appointed by Pope John Paul II as the Prefect of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said: "Today we no longer understand ecumenism in the sense of a return, by which the others would ‘be converted’ and ‘return to being Catholics.’ This was expressly abandoned at Vatican II” (
Adisti, February 26, 2001).
In answer to your question: The Church does and always will seek the conversion of non-Catholics to the Church; but there are fewer and fewer leaders within the Church who still have the faith. For them, eccumenism is a way to bring all religions together into one big “whore” (Apoc 17). This is a false form of ecumenism, but it is the kind of ecumenism virtually everyone within the Church is promoting.
Oba Prophecy: “It will come when the
Church authorities issue directives to promote a
new cult, when priests are forbidden to celebrate in any other, when the higher positions in the
Church are given to perjurers and hypocrites, when only the renegades are admitted to occupy those positions.”
St. Thomas: “Every man shall speak that which pleaseth him, and my priests shall not have peace among themselves but shall sacrifice unto me with deceitful minds. Then shall the priests behold the people departing from the House of the Lord and turning to the world. The House of the Lord shall be desolate and her altars will be abhorred. The place of holiness shall be corrupted, and the priesthood polluted.”
Anna-Katarina Emmerick (September 27, 1820). “I
saw deplorable things: **they **
were gambling, drinking, and talking in
church; **they **
were also courting women. All sorts of abominations
were perpetrated there. Priests allowed everything and said Mass with much irreverence. I
saw that few of them
were still godly, and only a few had sound views on things. I also
saw Jews standing under the porch of the
Church. All these things caused me much distress.”
“The
Church is in great danger… The Protestant doctrine and that of the schismatic Greeks are to spread everywhere. I now see that in this place (Rome) the (Catholic)
Church is being so cleverly undermined, that there hardly remain a hundred or so priests who have not been deceived.
They all work for destruction, even the clergy. A great devastation is now near at hand.”
"Then, I
saw that everything that pertained to Protestantism was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence. Most priests
were lured by the glittering but false knowledge of young school-teachers, and
they all contributed to the work of the destruction.
“In those days, Faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families which God has protected from disasters and wars.”
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