” ” ” “The document also yields some ecumenical ramifications (cf. "responsa" no. 4-5): it explains why the Second Vatican Council gives the name of "Churches" to the Eastern Churches which are separated from a full communion with the Catholic Church, and not instead to the Christian Communities that were the fruit of the 16th-century Reform. Many sides said they were concerned about its consequences for ecumenical dialogue. "Stating that the communities that were born of the Reform are not Churches according to the same concept that the Catholic Church has of this word explains mgr. Forte does not mean denying they actually are, according to their belief and how they look at being a Church: here I can see no ecumenical problems, actually it seems to me we are fulfilling a need for honesty and truthfulness, that was repeated on several occasions by the official documents of the Evangelical Confessions". The document of the Congregation just like the Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum", after all has been construed by someone as an offensive against the Second Vatican Council. "By no means states mgr. Forte -. And this is proven by the fact it faithfully repeats the lesson of the Council, without changing a single word. What the Document intends to avoid is confusion and irenics, not sincere communion in Truth, which we all must obey, and a dialogue made of honest mutual attention and the sincere submission of one’s point of view".” “
