Roman Catholic Ecumenism
By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
On the T.V. cable channel titled History there is a documentary that reruns quite often.
It's called "Armageddon". It's about, both, a Christian
end-time doctrine that describes what many Protestants believe will occur just prior
to the second coming of Jesus Christ, and the Roman Catholic Church's end-time doctrine, a
doctrine that contradicts this popular end-time Protestant doctrine.
According to this T.V. documentary, a popular Protestant doctrine states that the
end-time antichrist will establish a one world
government and all the inhabitants of the earth will serve him, or be killed. And the
other doctrine is the Roman Catholic doctrine which teaches that the antichrist who was
prophesied in the book of Revelation to establish a
one world government and then kill everyone who
would not serve him has already appeared and fulfilled his evil mission. And that he
(Nero) was a Roman emperor; and that when he
ruled the known world he killed people who would not serve him.
Many Protestants believe, as expressed in David Hunt's best-selling
book
"A Woman Rides the Beast", that the end-time "antichrist" will soon
come to power and establish a one world government and that his right hand man will be
the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church; and that when
the antichrist comes to power, the Catholic Church will have become an extremely apostate
"Christian" Church by
incorporating to much of, both, the Eastern religions and the New Age movement
into it; and that the "antichrist", with the blessing of the Pope, will rule and
reign over all the inhabitants of the earth.
And these same Protestants believe that just prior to the "antichrist's" coming
to power all Christians will be "raptured" up into the clouds
to meet Jesus Christ in the air above the earth. And they also believe that after the
"rapture" all new converts to Christianity will be killed
by the "antichrist"; and that, a short while after the "antichrist" has established his
one world government on earth, the Christians who took part in the rapture will return to
earth with Jesus Christ and they will then establish the fullness of
the Kingdom of God on earth.
And they also believe that because the Second Coming is at hand we should be
seeing evidence that indicates that the Catholic Church is making
a lot of progress in its Vatican II initiated evangelization of the
world mission, a mission wherein the church is trying to evangelize the whole world by way of
its ecumenical movement of not only non-Catholic Churches but all good-willed non-Christian
religions as well.
In A Woman Rides the Beast (page 417) Hunt wrote: "Catholicism has become the
ecumenical leader in the move to unite not only the "separated
brethren" of Protestantism but all of the world's religions in a new world
church."
On page 427 Hunt wrote: "Roman Catholicism is proving to be the bridge that brings
together all faiths. That fact alone is not surprising, but
it is astonishing to see evangelical Christians stepping onto that bridge on one end
while at the same time Hindus, Buddhists, and pagans of
every strip are stepping onto it from the other. If we are indeed in the last days,
as seems apparent, it will not be long until all sides
meet in the middle."
According to a statement that Cardinal Jean Danielou made in his book "The Salvation
Of The Nations", the Catholic Church's end-time mission is to
usher in the fullness of the Kingdom of God on earth, so that Jesus Christ can return to
take over a domain that has been made completely ready for Him. And that it is by way of the Catholic
Church's ecumenical movement that the world will be won for Christ, and that when this occurs Jesus Christ
will return in glory to a domain that has been made completely ready for Him.
Evidence indicates that Cardinal Jean Danielou's vision will become manifest
in the near future. There has been a lot of success in respect to the
Catholic Church's ecumenical movement associated with the evangelization of non-Catholic Churches,
including success associated with the
joint declaration titled: "Evangelicals and Catholics together: The
Christian Mission in the 3rd Millennium", the Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration of
Justification, the Lausanne Covenant, a Convent that
declares that Anglican, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelicals, Orthodox and Pentecostals
believe in the six saving acts, the Incarnation...the
Cross...the Atonement...the Resurrection...the Ascension...Pentecost...and the
Second Coming and that therefore these Churches should unflinchingly
stay together in their Christian mission to win the world for Christ.
And by way of its ecumenical movement the Catholic Church is also making advancements in respect to its
mission to evangelize all people of non-Christian religions. The church has been making
advancements associated with the evangelization of Hindus, Buddhists and New Age movement
participants, and doing so, by incorporating aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism and
the New Age movement.
Cardinal Jean Danielou once wrote, "There may well be many aspects of
Christianity that we shall not discover until Christianity has been refracted through every facet
of the prism of human civilization. It has been refracted only through the Greek and Roman worlds,
but it will have to be refracted through the Chinese facet and the Hindu facet in order to attain its
fulfillment; and this total fulfillment will not come through the conversion of individual men, but
through the Christianization of all the civilizations of the earth. All of these civilizations must be
permeated by Christianity, and Christianity must bring to blossom whatever in them has been in the
nature of providential preparation.
In respect to Cardinal Danielou's above statement it is improtant to known that Pope Benedict XVI recently
gave his approval, but with a warning of caution, for Catholics to do yoga meditation. When I refracted the Hindu facet
of the prism of human civilization through my Catholic expression of Christianity (including regularly doing a simular to yoga meditation) I discovered the
divine mother within me. Yoga meditation leads to self-realization or godhood (becoming one with the divine mother within), which is the goal
of New Age movement participants as well as for Sufi-Moslems, Hindus and Buddhists. And for some Christians it's (now) a very important
and glorious goal of our spiritual journey.
See: East West United.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Father Keating, a Trappist monk and leader of a worldwide prayer movement, and two
other monks met with Buddhist and Hindu teachers
in an effort to understand the mass defection of young Catholics at the time, people drawn in part to the East's
meditation practices. Their research led Keating, then an abbot at a Massachusetts monastery, to begin unearthing
a similar meditative method based on the Christian tradition.
Father Keating is now the leading figure in an interdenominational movement to revitalize the Christian contemplative
practice known as "centering prayer." In the 1960s Father Keating invited the great Zen master Roshi Sasaki to lead retreats at the
abbey. At the time, he thought, surely there must be a precedent within the church for making such simple but powerful spiritual techniques
available to laypeople. After Father Keating's meeting with the great Zen master he and his Trappist brother Father
William Meninger began teaching a form of Christian meditation, a form similar to Buddhist and Hindu meditative methods,
which has grown into the worldwide phenomenon known as centering prayer
In A Woman Rides The Beast (page 24) Hunt wrote: "The Bible declares that
God determined to keep His chosen people separated to Himself
(exodus 33.16; Leviticus 20:26; etc.) because He would bring them back into the land
in the last days (Jeremiah 30:10; 31:8-12; Ezekiel
36:24,35-38; etc.) prior to the Messiah's second coming. That prophecy and
promise, so long awaited, was fulfilled in the rebirth of Israel
in her Promised Land. It happened at last in 1948, nearly 1900 years after the final
Diaspora at the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by
the Roman armies of Titus. This restoration of a nation after 25 centuries is utterly
astonishing, a phenomenon without parallel in the
history of any other peoples and inexplicable by any natural means, much less by
change."
According to the History channel's documentary...many Protestants believe
that a temple will be built on the land where the old temple stood
in Jerusalem and that the end-time antichrist will eventually sit in it and declare
himself to be God. (1 Corinthians 3:16)
But according to some Catholics, including myself, the end-time antichrist is not an individual person
but a corporate person and that this corporate person is
made up of the members of the contemporary New Age movement. New Age movement
participants sit in the temple of God, the human body, and
declared themselves to be God. It's right for them to declare themselves
to be god,
or the divine mother who is subordinate to almighty God the Father, as well as
seek godhood, but not to declare themselves to be God.
I believe that the antichrist of the end-time has already been
revealed; and that therefore it will not be long until Jesus Christ,
working in and through His Catholic Church, puts an end to the New Age
movement (it participants being the antichrist) by evangelizing the New Age movement
participants to the Church.
In A Woman Rides the Beast Hunt presents evidence that reveals that up until
Vatican II the Catholic Church was still on its nearly 1700 year old
mission of promoting the continuation of Catholic totalitarian regimes that had laws
that make it legal to persecute and kill both non-Catholic Christians and
people of non-Christian religions. And Hunt also states in this book of his that during Vatican II,
the Catholic Church's evangelization of the world method changed so that, from that point in time, it
was promoting, throughout the whole world, the separation of church and state,
religious liberty and a free press. But Hunt also states in his book that the ultimate
goal of the Catholic Church is to go back to its earlier evangelization of the world method and eventually
establish a one world monarchal system of government.
In A Woman Rides the Beast (page 416) Hunt wrote: "Having lost her status as
the official state church in most parts of the world, and no
longer able to impose the death penalty for nonconformance, Rome has adopted new
tactics. It was at her initiative, following the publishing
of Dignitatis Humanae ("Declaration of Religious Freedom") at Vatican II, that the
concordats in the few remaining countries where only
Catholicism was allowed were changed to grant freedom of religion. This occurred in
Colombia in 1973, opening the door to all religions
and separating church and state. The same action was taken in 1974 in the Swiss canton
of Valais, followed in 1975 by annulment of Article
24 in the 1940 Concordat with Portugal. Religious liberty was granted in Spain in1976
by revision of the convordat to provide for
separation of church and state, followed by similar action in Peru in 1980 and Italy
in 1984. Finally, in July 1992, laws guaranteeing
freedom of religion for non-Catholics at last went into effect in Mexico (thought
persecutions and even killings of Christians by
Catholics has continued). These moves did not reflect generosity on Rome's
part but a clever strategy of taking the initiative to
effect what was already inevitable in today's world."
On page 416, Hunt wrote: "Ecumenism is no equal partnership, but a one-way street
to Rome."
And on page 415 Hunt quoted Pope Pius XII: "We must not pass over in silence, or
veil in ambiguous terms, the truth of Catholic teaching...that
the only true union is by the return of separated Christians to the one true Church
of Christ. For those who do not belong to the visible
body of the Church...none can be assured of eternal salvation, because...they are
still deprived of the helps and heavenly favors found only
inside the Catholic Church." Therefore, the Catholic Church's ecumenical
mission will not be completely fulfilled until all non-Catholic
Christians and all people of non-Christian religions have been converted to
Catholicism.
In A Woman Rides the Beast (page 180) Hunt, when referring to an
internationally renowned person associated with the Roman Catholic
Church's ecumenical mission, wrote: "...Fr. Matthew Fox, silenced for one
year by the Vatican but vocal thereafter with
views that can only be called pagan and New Age. Expelled from the Dominican order
for subordination but not excommunicated from the
Church for his gross heresies, Fox has since become an Episcopalian."
In respect to this statement of Hunt's, it seems to me that he believes
that
Reverend Mathew Fox is, and will continue to be, a leading
false prophet within the current international world-wide Christian ecumenical
movement, a movement that will usher in a one-world Catholic
Monarchal system of government, a governmental system wherein a lay Catholic will
be the King, a governmental system wherein the Pope will
actually be the supreme civil governmental ruler over all the inhabitants of the
earth.
I agree with Hunt that a one world Catholic Monarchal system of government will
soon be established, but unlike Hunt, I believe that a short while after this
governmental system is established Jesus Christ
will come to take over the positions of both the King and the Pope and then begin
ruling and reigning over a domain that has been made
completely ready for Him.
In A Woman Rides the Beast Hunt presents information that supports his belief
that a pope will actually be the supreme civil
governmental ruler over all the inhabitants of the earth by quoting Pope Nicholas I
(858-67): " Fear, then, our wrath and the thunder of our
vengeance; for Jesus Christ has appointed us [the popes] with his own mouth absolute
judges of all men; and kings themselves are submitted
to our authority." In A Woman Rides the Beast page 233 Hunt wrote: "Looking
back from today's perspective, such overt papal domination
over sovereigns seems inconceivable, but it was in fact the norm for that day. The
popes literally ruled the entire known world for
centuries..." Both David Hunt and I believe that either Pope Benedict XVI, or a future pope
in the near future, will, like the popes in the past, rule the world,
and that this will occur when a lay Catholic becomes the King of a one-world
Catholic monarchal system of government.
I believe that I will be the lay Catholic who will be the King of this one-world
Catholic monarchy system and that Reverend
Matthew Fox will be influential in respect to helping me to attain this goal. As a
hippie Catholic prophet of the counter culture's ecumenical movement of the
world's non-Catholic Churches and non-Christian religions...and having a world-view around
the sacred Dakota American Indian word wahkon (sacred) visionary mission, I
attended the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference, an international Catholic indigenous peoples
of North America conference. And during that conference
Father
Stanislaus Maudlin (now deceased), a
former leader of the Tekakwitha Conference, addressed the conference and said "there is a
whole word view behind the word wahkon".
And a short while later, I was interviewed by Father Matthew Fox, the conference's
keynote speaker and, at the time, an international leader of
the Catholic Church's ecumenical movement. This meeting with Father Matthew
Fox, along with a lot of other
signs/evidence of
me having a very glorious Christian prophetic ministry, has lead me to believe that I will
be the King of the, soon to come, one-world Catholic monarchy.
During the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference interview, Father Fox told me that the late Thomas Merton,
who during his life became an internationally renowned Catholic monk and author, who was the author of
books about the Catholic Church's ecumenical movement,
books that
were popular amongst the 1960s hippie ecumenical movement revolutionaries, had asked
him a few years before he died to reach out to
the youth of the 1960s counter-cultural revolution with the intent to help them find
the truth and live holy lives. Father Fox then asked me what I
thought about this connection with Thomas Merton. I responded by telling him about my
strongly influenced by Merton - world view around the
word wahkon - hippie Catholic ecumenism and globalization movement, a
movement with a mission to unite humanity not only in a one
world religion but also within a single united global culture with a one world government,
a culture made up of the best of the past of all the
earth's different peoples' cultures, a culture that would be wahkon, or
predominately permeated with the culture(s) of
the indigenous
peoples of the Americas.
And near the end of the interview Fr. Fox asked me to keep in touch with him, so as to
keep him informed about the progress of my expression of the hippie
Catholic ecumenical and globalization movement. And a couple of years ago, Reverend
Matthew Fox sent me a letter wherein he expressed his
support for my effort to revert the name of the "Rum" River back to its sacred
Mdewakanton Dakota name Wahkon. Hopefully, in the near
future, we will be corresponding on a regular basis, and in doing so, fulfill, in a way,
David Hunt's seemingly subtle prediction, that
Rev. Matthew Fox will be influential in respect to helping the lay Catholic prophet who
will become the King of the, soon to come, one-world
Catholic monarchy attain his (my) goal.
Two internationally renowned indigenous activists
Steve Newcomb and
Tony Castanha, activists who are on the international forefront of the movement to influence Pope Benedict
XVI to formally revoke the 15 century Papal Bull Inter Caetera, a papal bull that denies indigenous peoples their
fundamental human rights, have, after reading articles of mine posted on Indigenous People Literature (IPL), contacted
me and said I am doing "good work". Tony Castanha corresponds with me on a regular basis. And after reading my IPL article
Proposals to heal the genocidal wounds of Indigenous peoples Steve Newcomb contacted me and said,
"Thanks Thomas, good work! And Tony Castanha contacted me after reading my IPL article
Restoring the Fundamental Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Another IPL article of mine
that is simular to the mentioned above articles is titled
U.S. and states should establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions.
Forty years ago, I
prophesied to friends and relatives that I would eventually be receiving
recognition as the leading prophet of the youth of
the 1960s counter cultural globalization mission. A mission with a
goal to unite all of humanity, not only within a one world culture and government,
but also within a single religion, a single religion that
would come to perfection by incorporating all the spiritual treasures within all of the
world's good willed religions, a single religion that would serve
as the basis and principle of unity for a single united global culture, a global
culture that would be made up of the best of the past of all
the world's good willed religions, traditions and cultures.
And because of my local, national and international Catholic social/political activist movement
to regain the Dakota indigenous people's sacred name for the
"Rum" River...I was able to successfully introduce and influence a co-founder and
leader of the worlds largest (26,000 registered members) hippie website - a website that promotes the youth
of the 1960s counter cultural movement and revival - to
put a
link to a hippie visionary article of mine on his Hippyland (hippy.com) website's
recommended articles list
. He titled it
Hippy Visionary.
And The Farm, an internationally renowned 250 member hippie counter-cultural
community of peaceful warriors "out to save the world", has a website
with a homepage link to the Hippy Museum
with information that presents my
worldview vision
as well as my prophetic credentials that indicate that I am the prophet
who, under the Pope's close pastoral guidance, will usher in the
fullness of the Kingdom of God on earth.
A very prominent member of The Farm [Albert Bates] is an internationally
renowned hippie counter-cultural activist. He became a global authority on ecovillages, founding
the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology. He is the author of several books. One of
his books Climate in Crisis is introduced by Al Gore. Mr. Bates, as an attorney, argued environmental
and civil rights cases before the U.S Supreme Court and served on the steering committee of
Plenty International for 18 years, focusing on relief and development work with indigenous
peoples, human rights and the environment. He recently sent me an e-mail message wherein he
wrote, in respect to another hippyland article of mine: "good article".
Hippyland also posted an article of mine on its "Activist Spotlight" webpage. This Hippyland article
of mine can be viewed and read by clicking
A 1960s hippie activist.
And after sending a printed copy of this on-line book of mine, along with information
about my international
movement to regain the
sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name for the "Rum" River, to the Pontifical Council On Peace
An Justice...I received a
letter
from the council's
Bishop secretary wherein he (Bishop Giampaola Crepaldi) informed me that the council had
"taken note" of both my Catholic social activist
ministry to revert the name of the "Rum" River back to its sacred Mdewakanton
Dakota name (Wahkon) as well as my "associated material".
Bishop Giampaola Crepaldi used the words "associated material" to let me know that the
Pontifical Council On Peace And Justice had taken note
of my book about my visionary ministry, a book wherein I express that I believe that I
am the prophet who, under the Pope's close pastoral guidance,
will usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ.
I believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ is at hand and that He will use a
Roman Catholic expression of the hippie counter-culture's
ecumenical movement and globalization revolution to usher in the fullness of the
Kingdom of God on earth; and that
it is my mission to lead this ecumenical movement and globalization revolution to it
glorious fulfillment.
