Vatican Issues Ecumenical ‘Study Document’ Downgrading the Papacy to Appeal to Non-Catholics

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Vatican Issues Ecumenical ‘Study Document’ Downgrading the Papacy to Appeal to Non-Catholics

The Vatican’s next salvo against Roman Catholicism has been fired, this time in the name of ecumenism and synodality.

Today the Vatican’s so-called Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity released a 146-page ‘study’ document entitled The Bishop of Rome: Primacy and Synodality in the Ecumenical Dialogues and in the Responses to the Encyclical Ut Unum Sint. It contains a preface by the Swiss ‘Cardinal’ Kurt Koch, who is the prefect of the Dicastery, meaning he is the Vatican’s top ecumenist.

The full text has been released in its English original and also in Italian and French translations:

• ENGLISH: The Bishop of Rome: Primacy and Synodality in the Ecumenical Dialogues and in the Responses to the Encyclical Ut Unum Sint
• ITALIAN: Il Vescovo di Roma: Primato e Sinodalità nei Dialoghi Ecumenici e nelle Risposte all’Enciclica Ut Unum Sint
• FRENCH: L’Évêque de Rome Primauté et Synodalité dans les Dialogues Œcuméniques et dans les Réponses à l’Encyclique Ut Unum Sint

The document was introduced at a press conference today, whose chief speakers were ‘Cardinal’ Koch and the Maltese ‘Cardinal’ Mario Grech, who is the secretary general of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops. A video of the conference has been made available by Vatican News:

A transcript of the various presentations (in their various original languages) has been released here.

The following reports and/or commentaries on The Bishop of Rome have been released so far:

• Vatican’s text on the Papacy puts ecumenism and synodality above primacy in signal shift (Per Mariam)
• The Bishop of Rome, servant of unity (Vatican News)
• Koch: Papal primacy is service, exercised in a synodal manner (Vatican News)
• Rethinking primacy in an ecumenical sense (Vatican News)
• Vatican proposes new understanding and different exercise of papal office (Katholisch.de)
• The papal office is to be transformed from a stumbling block to the cornerstone of ecumenism (Katholisch.de)
• The Bishop of Rome: Primacy and Synodality. Summary, ideas and proposals of a new Vatican document (Zenit)
• Vatican publishes papal primacy document aimed at ‘a reunited Church’ (Catholic News Agency)
• ‘The Bishop of Rome’: A brief guide for busy readers (The Pillar)
• Ecumenism and papal primacy: Vatican releases status report on dialogues (Detroit Catholic)
• Video: Francis Issues Radical Document Proposing To Change The Papacy (Return to Tradition)
• Vatican’s ‘Bishop of Rome’ Document Has an ‘Ivory Tower’ Feel (National Catholic Register)
• Vatican revives reflection on pope’s role among other Christians (La Croix International)

Rome Reports has released the following 2-minute video clip regarding three key takeaways from the new document:

Our own explosive commentary on this latest assault on Catholic dogma from the Counterfeit Church and its false pope will be published on this blog as soon as possible. We do, however, value quality over speed, so please stay tuned.

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