Reflection on "Church Unity":
When the Roman Catholic hierarchy says, "We want to promote Christian unity," what they really mean is every one should agree to all the established doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. It also means that progressive  Roman Catholic theologians and thinkers like Hans Kung, Daniel Berrigan, Thomas Merton, Rosemary Reuther, Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, and other catholic thinkers like them, are not welcome in the Roman Catholic Church. However, when progressive catholic theologians and thinkers, together with the Roman Catholic laypeople say, "We need to promote Christian unity," what they really mean is to fight, oppose, and challenge the authority of the Vatican, especially the Pope, and all Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops who are identified with the establishment within the Roman Catholic Church. No wonder Pope Benedict has always been saying he wants to work for the "unity of the Catholic Church." The main reason why I say this, is because the voice of the Roman Catholic Church is officially represented by the voice coming from the Vatican. No wonder so many progressive Roman Catholic theologians and all the other catholic church leaders are leaving the Roman Catholic Church. They don't care if they are excommunicated. To my mind, these progressive Roman Catholics are the true voices of protestantism in America and around the world today. Most Protestant denominations are now identified as pro-establishment. They have consciously or unconsciously decided to lose their being protestant. Nabaliktad ti lugongdan, cacabsat!

There is one lesson I can learn here: People(outside or inside the churches) who refuse to change for the better, are consigning themselves to oblivion or, as Bishop John Shelby Spong, Jr. says, "extinction."