‘The Goal of the Ecumenical Movement Is…’

According to Austrian Father Hermann Geissler, the head of the doctrinal office of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, “The goal of the ecumenical movement is complete visible union with one Christ and with Peter in one Church.” The words are from an interview with The Portal, a new publication for Anglican communities received into the Catholic Church under the terms of Anglicanorum Coetibus.

Father Geissler’s boss, His Eminence William Cardinal Levada, had already declared the same thing about a year ago. Good thing, because union with the Pope is necessary for salvation.

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