At the Second Vatican Council in the mid 1960’s the Catholic Church formally announced its new policy to reach out to Bible-believing Christians, whom they renamed “separated brethren” and, therefore, ostensibly no longer “heretics”.
The Vatican strategy was to infiltrate Evangelical churches so as to conform them to Catholic doctrines and practices. This scheme had already been successfully perpetrated within the Church of England by means of the Oxford Movement that was founded by John Henry Newman in the mid-nineteenth century.
A similar agenda was likewise put into effect in the USA with “Evangelicals and Catholics Together”. This carefully planned initiative was launched with the 1994 article jointly written by Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus, which later became known as ECT. The purpose of ECT is to identify Catholics as Christians, the recognition which for centuries Evangelicals have always resisted. Now, some forty-five years after Vatican Council II, and boosted by the impact of the Charismatic Renewal Movement which sprung up among the denominations, along with the many ecumenical modern Bible versions, the Catholic agenda for unifying the churches and compromising their doctrine has undoubtedly prospered.
Therefore, in contrasting the genuine with the counterfeit in this article, we are trusting in our Lord God that we are succinct and clear, as well as honouring to our Lord Jesus Christ.
We set out to explain both the Christian Bible position and the Roman Catholic traditional position, with regard to the non-negotiable essentials of Biblical faith; and also to sound an alarm for discerning Christians caught up in ecumenical error and compromise.
Full Article: Is Roman Catholicism Christian? (UK Edition) by Richard Bennett.
