Three European Alliances Warn Evangelical-Catholic Unity Is Going Too Far

[JimG]

And Father Dwight Longenecker agrees with them.
He writes in the Catholic Herald:

“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.”

Such is the line in a Robert Frost poem, and it applies pretty neatly to the protest by some Protestants that the Evangelicals are getting too cosy with Catholics. This article in Christianity Today reports that Evangelicals in Spain, Malta and Italy are worried that their fellows have fallen in love with Pope Francis.

Indeed.
In fact, as a Catholic and a former Evangelical I’m on their side.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/com...unity-with-the-catholic-church-good-for-them/

 

[ATraveller]

As someone who would like our denominations closer, I agree. It has to be done on substance not sentimentalism.
This:

When it comes to real ecumenism on the other hand, I feel like I have much more in common with an old-fashioned Evangelical who believes that Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, was sent into the world to save it by dying and rising again, than a Catholic who believes we should save the world by a Climate Accord and providing “reproductive freedom” to everyone.

 

[Maximilian75]

hey… if the Methodists, Lutherans, and Anglicans keep going the way they are, it may well be just the two of us holding down the fort against moral relativism…

 

[ATraveller]

Not all Methodists, Lutherans and Anglicans have thrown out Christian teachings and doctrines.
Don’t forget there are denominations like the Free Methodists, confessional Lutherans, Continuing Anglicans, and ACNA. And there are still very faithful and doctrinally sound parishes even in the Mainline denominations, at least for now because there’s a high chance they’ll be squeezed out by their current leaderships and a full realignment in Protestantism will be complete when that happens.

 

[adgloriam]

This is not as much about Ecumenical dialogue as it is about some Evangelic being worried that protestants start converting back to Catholicism if they have contact and theoretical openness to the Catholic Church.