abp Fulton Sheen, an Ardent Ecumenist

Fulton Sheen, an Ardent Ecumenist

Although Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen died in 1979, seven years before the first Interreligious Conference at Assisi, I believe it is safe to say that he would have been very much at home at that pan-religious gathering, and would heartedly endorse Bergoglio's "all religions lead to God" heresy.

Archbishop Sheen’s autobiography Treasure in Clay, it became clear t that he was a strong proponent of progressivist ecumenism. Like the present day progressivists, Sheen saw “truth” and “goodness” in every religion as he wrote: “The combination of travel, the study of world religions and personal encounter with different nationalities and peoples made me see that the fullness of truth is like a complete circle of 360 degrees. Every religion in the world has a segment of that truth.” (p. 148)

Fulton Sheen displays his ecumenist feelings

Sheen: All religions lead to salvationHis ecumenical ideas went so far that he was an implicit supporter of the theory of “anonymous Christian” defended by Fr. Karl Rahner. Indeed, Sheen pretended that “Christ is hidden in all world religions, though as yet His face is veiled as it was to Moses, who asked to see it.”

Then, he explicitly reaches the same conclusion of Rahner when he said: “I have always contended in talking to missionaries that we are not so much to bring Christ to peoples as we are to bring Christ out of them.” (p. 148)

The heresy of universal salvation was also latent in his mind as he affirmed: “The good Hindu, the good Buddhist, the good Confucianist, the good Moslem are all saved by Christ and not by Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism but through their sacraments, their prayers, their asceticism, their morality, their good life.” (p. 148)

He was so convinced that everyone could be saved in his own religion that he never used his shows to convert people. Even though he spent hundreds of hours on television, this Prince of the Church, whose mission should be to bring souls to Our Lord and into His flock, stated without remorse that on his television show “never once was there an attempt at what might be called proselytizing.”

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