The Trumpet and its predecessor, the Plain Truth,have been tracking this trend for decades. You can read a survey of these changes and predictions in “Returning to the Fold” from our booklet He Was Right. Ever since the Vatican II council of the early 1960s started the official process of gathering in the “sheep that have strayed,” there has been steady progress.
In 1963, in the midst of the Second Vatican Council, the Plain Truth reported:
Today, the time is ripe—according to official Catholic views—for making the final effort to unite the church bodies of the Christian world. The mighty problem of achieving unity is twofold. First, it involves reconciliation of the Orthodox Schism that officially commenced in 1054 and divided the churches in the East—Greece, Russia, the Balkans and the Near East—from Rome. Second, it involves restoration to the Roman communion all Protestantism, which developed from 1517 onward.
As Trumpet writer Richard Palmer wrote, “the first problem—the ‘reconciliation of the Orthodox Schism’—is nearly resolved.” The second part of the problem is what Pope Francis has set his sights on, and the world’s most popular leader seems like just the smooth-talking man for the job.
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