It wasn't. The rift was over the subject of this thread. A refusal to recognise the Pope as supreme authority.
That happened throughout history. They were called heretics. Councils were held to develop and clarify to settle such controversies.
"supreme authority" is only supreme for Catholics and it's limited to matters of faith and morals. It's not something to be feared. You depict the pope as like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
That will change. The future global religion will include both.
A global religion is just a fear mongering myth, as such a thing is impossible. . Various leaders of major religions often meet to seek ways to get people to stop killing each other in the name of God. So what do you do? Turn a good thing into a ridiculous conspiracy.
The Pope will be recognised as the global ruler over all ecumenical members, as well as all eastern mysticism, Luciferian, and even atheist organisations,
For that to happen, the Pope would have to rescind dozens of encyclicals. He has no authority to do that.
and the Pope will welcome all into his grand global united love fest on the grounds of natural law and the common good of humanity.
The Pope welcomes everything that is good and true in other religions, such as the Golden Rule. That doesn't mean he accepts their falsehoods. That's a slanderous inference. You do that automatically.
The only group that will not recognise his authority will be the off scouring of humanity, the lowest of the low, those "hated of all nations for the name of Jesus", and may be identified by their keeping of all the commandments of God and their faith of Jesus, and the Spirit of prophecy in their midst. Revelation 12:17; 14:12; 19:10.
We have formal relations with other religions because there are so many of us. The Vatican is the smallest county in the world, and the Pope functions as head of that state. He has diplomatic responsibilities as any other head of state, but that doesn't mean he rules over them. Lot's of "Catholic" countries are passing evil abortion laws, so where is this "supreme authority" you speak of?
Lots of people don't recognize papal authority and we don't right them off as unsaved enemies. There are even a few crazy Catholics that don't recognize papal authority. We call them schismatics but they are still Catholics. Your view of "papal authority" belongs in a cartoon script.
The Pope's authority is limited to Catholics only on matters of faith and morals., not governments. Most of them don't care what he says.
DECLARATION ON THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS
NOSTRA AETATE
PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON OCTOBER 28, 1965
1. In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions. In her task of promoting unity and love among men, indeed among nations, she considers above all in this declaration what men have in common and what draws them to fellowship.
One is the community of all peoples, one their origin, for God made the whole human race to live over the face of the earth.(1) One also is their final goal, God. His providence, His manifestations of goodness, His saving design extend to all men,(2) until that time when the elect will be united in the Holy City, the city ablaze with the glory of God, where the nations will walk in His light.(3)
Men expect from the various religions answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men: What is man? What is the meaning, the aim of our life? What is moral good, what is sin? Whence suffering and what purpose does it serve? Which is the road to true happiness? What are death, judgment and retribution after death? What, finally, is that ultimate inexpressible mystery which encompasses our existence: whence do we come, and where are we going?
2. From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things and over the events of human history; at times some indeed have come to the recognition of a Supreme Being, or even of a Father. This perception and recognition penetrates their lives with a profound religious sense.
Religions, however, that are bound up with an advanced culture have struggled to answer the same questions by means of more refined concepts and a more developed language. Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust. Again, Buddhism, in its various forms, realizes the radical insufficiency of this changeable world; it teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination. Likewise, other religions found everywhere try to counter the restlessness of the human heart, each in its own manner, by proposing "ways," comprising teachings, rules of life, and sacred rites.
The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men
. Indeed, she proclaims, and ever must proclaim Christ "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), in whom men may find the fullness of religious life, in whom God has reconciled all things to Himself.(4)
The Church, therefore, exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life, they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men.
NOTES
1. Cf.
Acts 17:26
2. Cf.
Wis. 8:1;
Acts 14:17;
Rom. 2:6-7; 1
Tim. 2:4
3. Cf.
Apoc. 21:23f.
4. Cf 2
Cor. 5:18-19
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