+ Ecumenism: Good or Bad? +

Ecumenism at the root means dialogue between Apostolic Churches in communion. This is where the title Ecumenical Patriarch comes from. This is a good thing.

It also more broadly means dialogue between different groups under the Christian label (and sometimes other religions). It's neutral in this sense, depending on if this leads to Holy Tradition or compromise.

But today it has become a label for compromises and false union, tied to relativism and modernism, destroying truth and Holy Tradition at their foundation. Thus it is called by many Saints the "Super Heresy." Worse than false teaching is throwing out the importance of truth entirely.