We have another going on this.   Having been a former evangelical myself, I can say with 100% certainty that they will not endorse the Pope's statements, at least the conservative evangelicals.  Problem with this heresy is that it will "turn off" a lot of evangelicals to the Catholic faith and will cause some NOs to leave the Faith for Evangelicalism.

It's hard to get people into the True Church when you have heretics on the outside who are professing more orthodoxy with respect to some truths than the heretics who are on the "inside" who are either denying or at least questioning those same Truths.

Commenting on Jesus’ prayer in the Gospel of John that “they may all be one,” Benedict XVI insists on continuing the quest for “visible unity” among the divided branches of the Christian family.

“The struggle for the visible unity of the disciples of Jesus Christ remains an urgent task for Christians of all times and places,” Benedict writes.

“The invisible unity of the ‘community’ is not sufficient,” he writes. “Unity must be visible, it must be recognizable as something that does not exist elsewhere in the world; as something that is inexplicable on the basis of mankind’s own efforts and that therefore makes visible the workings of a higher power.”

Finally, he says it explicitly.  The entire ecuмenical venture rests upon this heretical notion of an underlying invisible unity.  He also implicitly robs the true Church of one of her essential notes: unity, which she possesses now and has always possessed.  Sure, they claim this as well, but then utter statements like this above thereby contradicting themselves.    

The way things look is the world, who knows it may be our last Lent on Earth.  Make it a fruitful one  

I bet you say that every Lent!    :guitar:

I will withold final judgment till I read the actual text.

However, I must say this disturbs me more than anything he has ever said. His understanding of the apostles actions in the early Church is nothing short of insane. His view that we shouldn't worry about converting Jєωs is insane. I have no defense of this madness. But no doubt Jimmy Akin is explaining why there is nothing to worry about.

Well intended Neo Caths will simply carry on as if this didn't happen. The more educated will say this is the Pope's "private opinion". So we are supposed to follow a Pope who has a non-Catholic understanding of salvation?

I suppose I will become a further outcast and reprobate amongst my Neo Cath family and friends by becoming a more hardened Trad. What a cross. But to suffer for the Truth is what we are here for.

His view that we shouldn't worry about converting Jєωs is insane. I have no defense of this madness.

This has been the Vatican's view/teaching since V2, stevus.  What did you think the visits to ѕуηαgσgυєs were all about?

So we are supposed to follow a Pope who has a non-Catholic understanding of salvation?

You do.

I will withold final judgment till I read the actual text.

However, I must say this disturbs me more than anything he has ever said. His understanding of the apostles actions in the early Church is nothing short of insane. His view that we shouldn't worry about converting Jєωs is insane. I have no defense of this madness. But no doubt Jimmy Akin is explaining why there is nothing to worry about.

Well intended Neo Caths will simply carry on as if this didn't happen. The more educated will say this is the Pope's "private opinion". So we are supposed to follow a Pope who has a non-Catholic understanding of salvation?

I suppose I will become a further outcast and reprobate amongst my Neo Cath family and friends by becoming a more hardened Trad. What a cross. But to suffer for the Truth is what we are here for.

As to B16, what is the difference between becoming a "more hardened Trad" and the Neo-Caths.

This is different from mere visits to ѕуηαgσgυєs. This is actually discouraging the converting of souls to Christ.

Hardened Trad = SSPX type even more convinced of the true crisis.

Neo-Cath = absolute obedience to whatever BXVI says, attend the NO, think there is no crisis or crisis isn't that bad, have no clue the solution is Tradition, and despise Trads as schismatics.

There is a world of difference.

The Sedes have more in common with the Neo-Caths because they share their same false premise regarding infallibility.