Nuggets from Occult Invasion

The ecumenical partnership with Rome has long been promoted in the pages of Christianity Today. As early as 1985, Kenneth Kantzer referred, in a CT editorial, to Pope John Paul II as “the successor of Saint Peter” whom “God has called…to forge a united church…[and whose] priority to the Christian message…endear[s] him to the hearts of evangelicals.” A year later Kantzer declared that “traditional Roman Catholics…retain much of biblical Christianity and possess qualities that I admire and wish to imitate. For example…their frequent celebration of the Lord’s Supper [Mass] and loyalty to the Bible….” In fact, as we have already noted, Rome anathematizes all who partake of the Lord’s supper as evangelicals commemorate it:

“If anyone says that the sacrifice of the mass…is a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross but not a propitiatory one…and ought not to be offered for the living and the dead, for sins, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities, let him be anathema.”