But if we allow "ecumenism" to become a code word for "You do your thing and I do mine," we're in trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from the Fish Bowl] Reference

I want to argue, however, that ecumenism is much more fundamental than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 Election] Reference

So, as I said, not everything that is called ecumenism is really ecumenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarification] Reference

I would also note the very word "ecumenism" is a Protestant term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarification] Reference

It involves discussing aspects such as ecumenism, liberty of conscience...sic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

I'm in favor of this so-called "ecumenism," as long as it is properly understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from the Fish Bowl] Reference

Except even non-Catholics engage in things they call "ecumenism," and Catholics engage in things they call "ecumenism" but aren't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarification] Reference

There is no defense of what is happening with this "ecumenism". thomas john.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hallowedground] Reference

It is a counsel of despair masquerading as feel-good ecumenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Critics charge the latest papal statement as a barrier to ecumenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference

Its title acknowledges that ecumenism needs to be radically rethought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberals must stand together] Reference

But there is much more to inner-city ecumenism than institutional cooperation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Holy War] Reference

Evangelization and ecumenism go hand in hand; one without the other is lacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecumenism] Reference

I suppose it came as close to ecumenism as one can expect in a Catholic country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Z. Shore: A Jewish Cardinal? Oy Vey!] Reference

I doubt many readers of HuffPo would expect to find a discussion of ecumenism here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen C. Rose: Reflections on A Shattered Ecumenism] Reference

SACC - are great decisions guided by the true spirit of ecumenism and reconciliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC PRESS STATEMENT WELCOMING THE SOUTHERN AFRICA BISHOPS' CONFERENCE BECOMING A FULL MEMBER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, AND THE RETURN OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH TO THE SACC] Reference

But I believe I can best serve the cause of ecumenism with open and honest statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution'] Reference

Honest dialogue, or pre-cursor to wide-spread relativism and/or intra-faith ecumenism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christians and Muslims Unite?] Reference

Actually a worldly ecumenism exists even as ecclesiastical ecumenism seems to me shattered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen C. Rose: Reflections on A Shattered Ecumenism] Reference

Before that he was the archbishop of Washington, D.C. He had a long career working in ecumenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Cardinal O'Connor Remembered at Funeral Mass - May 8, 2000] Reference

This approach expresses the spiritual ecumenism that is at the heart of the ecumenical movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop introduces His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, to address the Synod] Reference

So I see the ecumenical landscape between our two churches today as a kind of receptive ecumenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop introduces His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, to address the Synod] Reference

Father Neuhaus was an unofficial adviser to John Paul II on everything from ecumenism to democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Richard John Neuhaus: A Man Animated by His Faith] Reference

And finally, ecumenism -- trying to get religious groups closer together to work for all these things.    From Wordnik.com.  [God, Country, Notre Dame] Reference

There were “many open questions between us and them”, including inter-faith dialogue and ecumenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Church in uproar over rehabilitation of Holocaust denier] Reference

The highest value of all may simply be to embrace the evolving ecumenism of public life in a free society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secular God] Reference

Hence the effort to promote a common witness by Christians to their faith ecumenism is part of the supreme priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pope Benedict's Letter to Bishops] Reference

The pope's efforts in behalf of ecumenism were rewarded by the return visit of the patriarch to the Vatican (Oct. 26).    From Wordnik.com.  [1966, March 23] Reference

Relativism, in this contest, is most certainly not a sign of our humility or ecumenism; it is a mask for arrogance and selfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberty University Commencement Address] Reference

He also said that applying Thich Nhat Hanh's ideas for peace "would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking Right: A Guide to Neo-Con Doubletalk in Double Time] Reference