Partnership with the Vatican?

I got the original story here: Beggars All: Reformation and Apologetics: Pope Making Friends With 75 Million Reformed Christians

First, I think it’s important to note that the partnership with Rome involves social justice, not doctrine.

And that when Bishop of Rome talks about ecumenicalism, he means that he wants to bring all protestants back under the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.

We are “separated brethren”. Referring to the Roman Catholic faithful, Vatican II says, “Their ecumenical action must be fully and sincerely Catholic”

Also in Vatican II, “Though the ecclesial Communities which are separated from us lack the fullness of unity with us flowing from Baptism…” (my take on this - ok…we’re saved, but we’re not that saved)

Vatican II says that “The children who are born into these Communities and who grow up believing in Christ cannot be accused of the sin involved in the separation, and the Catholic Church embraces upon them as brothers, with respect and affection. For men who believe in Christ and have been truly baptized are in communion with the Catholic Church even though this communion is imperfect.” (Again, we’re saved, but Christ’s finished work on the cross isn’t finished unless we’re under the leadership of Rome)

Bishop of Rome, Benedict XVI said, in his first messages as Bishop of Rome, “But what is most urgently needed is that “purification of memory”, so often recalled by John Paul II, which alone can dispose souls to accept the full truth of Christ.” (Who has the “full truth of Christ”? According to Rome, the Roman Church is the church that has the full truth)

My questions are: Whose memory needs to be purified? What do they need to forget in order to “accept [Rome's] full truth of Christ”?

“The Magdalene Laundries” - Joni Mitchell

The Magdalene Laundries
by Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl
I’d just turned twenty-seven
When they sent me to the sisters
For the way men looked at me.
Branded as a jezebel,
I knew I was not bound for Heaven
I’d be cast in shame
Into the Magdalene laundries.

Most girls come here pregnant
Some by their own fathers.
Bridget got that belly
By her parish priest.
We’re trying to get things white as snow,
All of us woe-begotten daughters,
In the steaming stains
Of the Magdalene laundries.

Prostitutes and destitutes
And temptresses like me—
Fallen women—
Sentenced into dreamless drudgery—
Why do they call this heartless place
Our Lady of Charity?
Oh, charity!

These bloodless brides of Jesus,
If they had just once glimpsed their groom,
Then they’d know, and they’d drop the stones
Concealed behind their rosaries.
They wilt the grass they walk upon,
They leech the light out of a room,
They’d like to drive us down the drain
At the Magdalene laundries.

Peg O’Connell died today.
She was a cheeky girl,
A flirt
They just stuffed her in a hole!
Surely to God you’d think at least
some bells should ring!
One day I’m going to die here too.
And they’ll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb
That never blooms come any spring,
Come any spring,
No, not any spring…