Interreligious Ecumenism: An Open Road to Pantheism (pdf edition)

Interreligious Ecumenism: An Open Road to Pantheism (pdf edition) presents a rigorous, document-based denunciation of contemporary interreligious experimentation within the Catholic Church, particularly as developed in India. Based on extensive documentation, it exposes concrete deviations from Catholic doctrine and carefully analyses the historical, philosophical, and doctrinal premises that have led to them.

The author, Ronaldo Baccelli was born in Brazil in 1954. From a young age, he was a disciple of the great Catholic leader Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira — founder of the Brazilian Society for the Defence of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) — from whom he learned to love the Catholic Faith and the principles that sustain Christian civilisation.

In the 1980s, Prof. Plinio identified a serious threat to the Church and Christian civilisation arising from heretical theories circulating in Catholic circles in India. He then tasked the author with conducting an in-depth study on interreligious ecumenism and compiling comprehensive documentation, with the aim of informing the Holy See and alerting the general public about these dangers.

The present volume is the fruit of extensive study, patient research, and documentation gathered over more than three decades of the author’s stay in Asia, where he currently lives dedicated to the lay Catholic apostolate. The book demonstrates — through carefully documented statements and facts — that certain prevailing models of interreligious dialogue are not directed toward spreading the Gospel. On the contrary, they gradually dismantle the doctrinal and metaphysical foundations of the Catholic faith. Once the uniqueness of Christ is reframed within pluralistic paradigms, Revelation is relativised, and ecclesial identity is subordinated to interfaith harmony, what emerges is not genuine dialogue but a steady process of doctrinal erosion.

Among other deviations, the book documents and analyses:

• The theological reconfiguration of interreligious dialogue in India;

• The metaphysical and theological consequences of claiming that all religions are equally salvific;

• Reinterpretations of Christology, Revelation, and Catholic dogmas within interreligious paradigms;

• The negation of the Creator–creature distinction;

• The denial of the value of rational thought;

• The shift from doctrinal orthodoxy to feeling-based religiosity;

• The erosion of organised religion and the promotion of pantheistic mysticism.

Drawing upon Scripture, the Church Fathers, Thomistic metaphysics, and magisterial teaching, the author contrasts these errors with the perennial doctrine of the Faith. He vigorously defends the transcendence of God and the irreducible uniqueness of Christ, the Only Saviour and universal Redeemer of mankind.

Intended for serious Catholic readers, this work seeks to serve the Holy Church and Christian civilisation by demonstrating how the emerging interreligious ecumenism poses a dual threat: it endangers not only the metaphysical and theological foundations of the Church, but also undermines the very notion of institutional religion, thus paving the way for a world shaped by pantheistic mysticism — where subjective feeling replaces objective moral and metaphysical truth. Such a development threatens Christian civilisation as well as the foundations of every enduring civilisation.

As a Roman Catholic, the author of this historical, doctrinal and apologetic work submits himself with filial ardour to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church. However, if inadvertently there has crept in something that does not conform to these teachings, he categorically rejects it.