PopeWatch: Prank

This pointed punjabbery is the only effective means to sorting out the layers of layers of layers of misinformation. Love it.

I agree with Foxfier, “it is a bit close to the bone to be pure humor”

My first thoughts go to any non Catholic Christians who might come upon Eye of the Tiber or even our blog and not realize it is all ‘humor’ etc. They might-as some of us have at other times, actually think that conversation in the Vatican did take place etc. Some can chuckle at the wry humor, and it is indeed wry, but we are not speaking of a political party here, or a secular issue. We are speaking of the real (if very imperfect) communion non-Catholic Christians have with the Church.

Some think that “Ecumenism” is some new fangled idea thought up by the Second Vatican Council, however this is simply not true. Perhaps no one expressed it more clearly and succinctly than Saint Augustine, who died in 430 AD and was no ‘modernist’:

“We entreat you brothers, as earnestly as we are able, to have charity, not only for one another, but also for those outside the Church. Of these, some are still pagans, who have not yet made an act of faith in Christ. Others are separated, insofar as they are joined with us professing faith in Christ our Head, but are yet divided from the unity of His Body. My friends, we must grieve over these as over our brothers. Whether they like it or not, they are our brothers; and they will only cease to be so when they no longer say Our Father”