"Education in Christian basics is needed for Christian unity" - Catholic News Service, 1/23/07:

If ecumenism is based on unity in faith, then Christians must know and believe the faith they claim to share.

"How can you speak, for example, of justification by faith if there is no longer an awareness of God and of sin, an awareness that there is a need for forgiveness and redemption?"

Ecumenism has been based on a conviction that Christians ... share the same faith in the triune God and in Jesus Christ as savior.

Ecumenism assumed that "all Christians have this in common," Cardinal Walter Kasper said. "Do they still? The question is important."

I find it ironic that the folks most concerned about ecumenism resulting in "least common denominator Christianity" are themselves, in fact, in fundamentalist denominations.