WCC Leader Has Audience with the Pope

Olav Tveit, Secretary General of the World Council of Churches, had an audience with the Pope on March 7 to discuss “new opportunities for Christian unity” (“WCC General Secretary Shares with Pope,” Oikoumene.org, Mar. 8, 2014). Tveit said that “faith leaders” could find unity in a “pilgrimage of justice and peace,” referring to common action on issues such as conflict resolution and climate change. Social work is one of the adhesives of the one-world “church.” During the audience, the Pope said, “These divisions must not be accepted with resignation, as if they were simply an inevitable component of the historic experience of the Church. If Christians ignore the Lord’s call to unity, they risk ignoring the Lord Himself and the salvation He offers” (“Positive Meeting between Pope and Ecumenical Leader,” Christianity Today, Mar. 10, 2014). There we have the latest word from the Pope: salvation is through ecumenical unity.

(Friday Church News Notes, March 21, 2014, www.wayoflife.org [email protected], 866-295-4143)

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