The following is taken from a book called The Coming World Church by a group of Protestant scholars, who gathered their evidence from various existing documents on the activities of the World Council of Churches. It was printed in 1963 and so was researched and compiled some years before Vatican II. Obviously, the Second Vatican Council does not inspire either the teaching reported herein, or the theories advanced, or the practices put into operation. So no bishop may claim inspiration from Vatican II, if he contemplates joining up with the world body described in this book: the World Council of Churches.

“Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam is credited with having prepared the blueprints for both the National Council of Churches (American) and the WCC. He thoroughly understood the role they would play in achieving his dream of ‘The coming Great Church’.”

“In his book, On the Rock, this late great ecumenist bypassed all the basic tenets of evangelical Christian doctrine, and called for the abandonment of all traditional and organisational barriers to church union. He proposed first to bring about inclusive cooperative Protestant action in the realm of church functions. Next he would create an ecumenical ministry. The bishop himself said he would be gladly reordained under this system. He declared:

‘I would gladly kneel in a service of mutual sharing in which the blessings of the different ordinations might be symbolically conferred upon me.’

Then Oxnam enlarges the picture:

‘United actions in many fields would follow ... missions ... education ... united theological seminaries ... the ministers of the church. The union of American christianity would electrify the world and accelerate the trend towards union in every continent.’ ‘Finally’ said the bishop, ‘it will be possible to kneel before a common altar with the Roman Catholic Church, beg forgiveness of the Christ for disunity and sharing the bread and wine of holy communion, rise in his Spirit to form the Holy Catholic Church to which all Christians may belong’.”

          If this is the theory, then (still quoting from the same book) what is the practice?

“In America this ecumenical church is being built through the actions of Councils affiliated with the National Council of Churches, (NCC, like the one existing in Australia) and in mergers of various denominations. The Northern California Council of Churches will make a good example. A local Council has a Comity Committee which has assigned certain territories to certain denominations to the exclusion of all others. Before any new church can be established, permit must be secured (coercion) from the local Council of Churches. City planning commissions and even national housing administrators are advised that ‘maverick churches’, that is, those that do not bear the stamp of Council approval, should not be allowed to construct buildings in areas under their control.”

          And now comes the crunch ...

“All pastors of Churches which have been allocated specific territories by the Comity Commission are advised that they represent not only their own denomination but also the Ecumenical ‘church’. They are required to emphasise the teachings which their denominations share with the rest of Christendom. In other words, the ecumenical church already exists in the thinking of the Council, as does an ecumenical ministry, with all planning for the future motivated by a determination to achieve ‘One Church for One World’.” [End of quote].

          This leaves in clarity as to both theory and practice nothing to be desired.

          It is becoming pretty obvious that the Catholic Church which neither can nor will go along with this sort of ecumenism, as it is impossible to bind Her to teach only what is shared by the rest of ‘christendom’, is heading for the classification of a “maverick Church” by the unanimous decision of all the churches and councils which do go along with it, including the ‘catholic’ slice that joined them ... It is quite likely that in the years to come many bishops of the Roman Catholic Church will start contemplating the step which has been taken here in the Archdiocese of Melbourne and its suffragan diocese of Ballarat, and will take their dioceses within the Council of Churches, with the inevitable consequences as described here, including that they will leave the Catholics who do not want to join up to fend for themselves as best they can. The American experience (already dating from 1963!) is a sobering thought for all of us.

          A few pages back the question was asked:

          “When will it be popular to start persecuting?”

          From the foregoing, from the behaviour of Cardinals Ratzinger and Cassidy; from the contours and outlines we have been at pains to sketch so far, from the weakness and unwillingness of the great majority of bishops to safeguard the Catholics and others in their (arch)dioceses against the horrendous inroads of sin, deception and licence, we are able to give the following answer:

• When individual Catholics have been effectively isolated by this type of action and are in a minority.
• When they are not allowed to talk about, or teach, the doctrines not shared by the rest of Christendom.
• When they are only allowed to stress ‘the cosmic christ’ of the WCC, the one shared by all the denominations.
• When they are requested to take ‘communion’ from an ecumenical minister whose Sunday it happens to be.
• And when they refuse to go along with any of this ...

          It is interesting to see in this context what, by Divine Revelation, we know will happen; and what St. John described in the 13th chapter of the Book of Revelation: how the second beast (or the false prophet) which looks like the Lamb but speaks like the Dragon will do everything in its power to use the religious unity of the world to obtain the political unity under the first beast. He also tells us that “the whole world will run after the beast”. In support of this interpretation we quote here the official teaching of Pope St. Pius X who wrote in 1910:

“... for the establishment of a One-World ‘Church’ which shall have

• neither dogma
• nor hierarchy,
• neither discipline of the mind
• nor curb on the passions,

and which,

• under the pretext of freedom
• and human dignity,

will bring back to the world the reign of

• legalised cunning
• and brute force
• and the oppression of the weak,
• and of all those who toil and suffer.”

          Same thing. Only this time the information is raised above the level of private interpretation of Scripture to the authentic voice of the Magisterium. And we can be sure of one thing: the ‘ecumenism’ and practices of the One-World ‘Church’, held up here by Pope St. Pius X as a warning for us, can never be traced back to Vatican II. Whoever contemplates joining up with such a global agglomerate, can only do so on the inspiration of the bypass where the rejects of Vatican II congregate ...

          Yes, indeed, the stakes are high:

“The goal of the boldest ecumenical thinkers and leaders has grown increasingly clear: to construct a world community embracing all races, classes, religions and political systems, united as far as possible under a common world government whose business will be the establishment of world peace. It is hoped that a Universal Church will be able to pave the way successfully for a Universal Government.”

          This comes so close to what St. John wrote to us in his Book of Revelation about ‘the second beast doing everything in its power to subjugate the whole world to the tyranny of the first beast’, that the question is legitimate: “Is Prof. Peter Beyerhaus indulging here in ‘private interpretation of Scripture’, or is this an exercise in sheer clear thinking from available evidence?” He continues:

“Such a universal church would, however, not only be transconfessional, it would also be unconditionally open to partnership with other religions and ideologies. The former General Secretary of the WCC, Eugene Carson Blake, declared in October, 1970 at the World Conference of Religions for Peace, in Kyoto, Japan, that the church unity for which the WCC strives, is only a first step on the way to the ultimate goal of a united mankind ... In the advocates of the ecumenical movement we are encountering today, we find a passionate religious-political view of missions, whose ardour, fanned to a new high at Bangkok, refuses to let any objections keep it from its goal.”

If anyone does stand in the way:

• “he is wooed in a friendly manner,
• simply passed over as unimportant,
• wrathfully attacked ...”
             (Prof. P. Beyerhaus in Bangkok 73).

          Which means that the Passion of the Church - like the Passion of Christ - has inexorably been set in motion. The mind of the persecutor is clear. The first shots have been fired. The global extent of the stakes show that the Catholic Church will for the first time in Her history be persecuted on a global scale. The Catholic Church, that is, which refuses to go along with the empire and church of Satan under whatever name. And in country after country, this Church will live forth in isolated Catholics-on-the- outer, living under unbearable pressure, political, economic, social and religious, to join up ... For we can be sure that, ultimately, our enemies will speak the truth when they will say to us:

          “Look, we wooed you, we ignored you, we warned you. You will not listen. Now we must wrathfully attack you ...”

          Here we find ourselves in the presence of – yet unnamed – mass murderers who in time will shed their masks of ‘piety’ and ‘religion’ to show us the contorted features of Satan.

          The good Catholics will be asked to completely join in the Mystical Life of Christ, which is a Life of self-immolation for the sins of the world. And so, the means and inspiration to join in the Mystical Life of Christ to such a degree lie hidden in the Mystery of the Church, which Herself draws strength continuously from this Mystical Life in Christ. This Life is the Mystery of the Church and can only be seen with the Supernatural Light and Eyes of Catholic Faith. And if Vatican II, in the Providence of God, was meant to prepare Catholics in the process of being persecuted, for such a participation in the Mystery of the Church, then Vatican II itself must, to a very high degree, share in this Mystery, which means that it becomes incomprehensible in any other light except the strong Light of Catholic Faith. In this Light it did not matter which ‘instruments’ took part: the Rhine or the Tiber, but only what God created with these instruments for the Life of His chosen ones.

          If people got confused after Vatican II, scandalised by Vatican II, or tried to manipulate Vatican II for their own designs and purposes: it all only showed the lack of Catholic Faith in these people, their lack of oil ...

• God knew that the persecuted Catholics during the most terrible persecutions yet to be unleashed, would feel alone, deserted, and would only have their Catholic Faith to guide them. So He made sure that in the training period immediately following on Vatican II, these conditions would be present to a lesser degree.

• He knew that during those persecutions His faithful ones would be requested to love their persecutors. So, in the training period, He provided us with innumerable opportunities to strengthen us in the exercise of this all-embracing demand.

• God remembered that in the Sacred Passion of His only-begotten Son, ONLY OUR LADY understood what was happening and what was requested of Her. So He made sure that Vatican II would once again reveal the most beautiful teaching on Our Lady and the Church for the consolation of all who would be prepared to stay with Her under the Cross.

• He also remembered how ill-prepared the Holy Apostles were when they came face to face with the disfigurement in His Son during His Sacred Passion. So He allowed a certain disfigurement in the Mystical Body of His Son in the post-Conciliar period, so that His persecuted faithful would draw strength for the time when the Catholic Church would follow Her Spouse till the bitter end.

          And thus, in page after beautiful page, the Catholic Church poured out Her Love for humanity in the Second Vatican Council. The teilhardians, on their erroneous philosophy of identity and sameness, thought it was at last the signal they had been waiting for: to be finally allowed to identify themselves with the world and its ways on the evolutionary teachings of Teilhard de Chardin. And the Church let them go, knowing that much would be restored after Her own faithful would wash the whole world once again clean in their own blood ...