It Was Ecumenical!

The CDF Document about which I wrote earlier that is. As I was previously perplexed as to why the CDF relased a document that said nothing new and I worked on straightening some of the misunderstandings regarding it. OK fine maybe it really didn't damn all Protestants, But is it Ecumenical? YES! At least that's the theory being posited on Insight Scoop:

Events may be providing an answer that should have been clear from the beginning. Perhaps the “target audience” for the CDF statement are the Orthodox (and perhaps especially the Russian Orthodox). After all, Kyrill of Moscow immediately welcomed it. Now, word comes, via Cardinal Etchegaray that a Rome/Moscow summit may be in the offing.

Let’s think about it. CDF says that the Orthodox churches are real Church – “defective” principally in that they do not recognize the Petrine prerogative of the Bishop of Rome to teach, govern and sanctify all of the particular churches. The Orthodox have no problem with that classic Roman formulation. That’s something they, and Rome, can work on in real ecumenical dialogue.

And I am prone to believe it. It seems that our cool pope Benedict XVI is doing all kinds of great stuff to promote unity in the church. It seems to be one of his top priorities and this fits the mold.

It also shows the ignorance of some of the Church members and the continuing lazy editing by our local paper The Catholic Spirit to publish letters like "Reader discouraged by new proclamation" (scroll down to the 3rd article) without so much as an explination of what the document did say. Not to mention any great insight on why the Document may have been written. I guess you need to go here to do that!