It should already be evident that this document is hardly an apologia for the Roman Catholic Church, for she historically has much to apologize for: monolithic, tarnished yet enduring. If these findings are valid all traditions need to review their doctrines and some their own heritage if the Body of Christ as a whole is to be restored, renewed and reunited to form the Perfect Man for which Paul so longed92. A universal need to acknowledge error is in fact a more propitious precondition for reunification than if one party or the other had to eat all the humble pie. It is why a conventional apologist with the support of his church could never be utilized to provide what is needed in the leadup to the Parousia. As is written in the book of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight”93. The process must start with a broken spirit and a contrite heart as the various parties discern their own historical misconceptions which, resulting from spiritual wickedness in high places has led to a multiple severing of Christ’s Body.
Repentance is particularly relevant to Church leaders, for most Christians have simply been serving Christ in the way they were brought up to believe is right. Pastors and priests who seek to dissemble the facts or deceive their flock regarding current obstacles to unity must recognize they face the wrath of Christ. His self-declared wish and prayer is that His Mystical Body on earth be made whole at last94, not that Christians determinedly defend the tradition into which they happened to have come to the faith. Such partisan apologists frustrate Christ’s will and unwittingly do the devil’s work, for Satan’s dread is a re-united Church and the powerful witness such would provide to the world.