PAPEŽ PROSIL NEKATOLIČANA ZA BLAGOSLOV

Comments: This humanitarian joint declaration, after the ecumenical statements of the Pope asking Patriarch Karekin II for his blessing—for him and for the whole Catholic Church!—prompts us to reread the Encyclical Mortalium animos (1928) by Pius XI:

For the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.... Alas their children left the home of their fathers, but it did not fall to the ground and perish for ever, for it was supported by God. Let them therefore return to their common Father, who, forgetting the insults previously heaped on the Apostolic See, will receive them in the most loving fashion. For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, ‘the Mother and mistress of all Christ's faithful’? (Lateran Council IV, can. 5)... Let, therefore, the separated children draw nigh..., not with the intention and the hope that ‘the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth’ (1 Tim 2:15) will cast aside the integrity of the faith and tolerate their errors, but, on the contrary, that they themselves submit to its teaching and government.”

Sources: DICI no. 338 - July 1, 2016