Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue are Boring

"All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.  Going therefore,

teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world."

--OR--

"I am the nicest person there ever was.  I suggest then, that you

set up meetings all over the world with all different types of people,

dialoging with them about what you have in common and ignoring your differences: and behold who cares who I am, there are lots of nice people."

I was an atheist.  I thought religion was for people too lazy to solve their own problems and God was an outdated sophistry of pre-scientific times.  Then I was a Protestant, of the non-denominational evangelical variety.  I believed whatever I liked; I decided what I believed.  Jesus loved me, that I knew, for the Bible told me so.

Then I converted to Catholicism.  I did not "come into the fullness of Christianity;" I did not find a new denomination I preferred to my previous allegiance; and I did not become Catholic because I privately and personally believe it is the best of several valid forms of Christianity.

I converted from error to truth.  While I was received into Holy Mother Church in a rite that only allowed me to profess the following: "I believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches, and proclaims to be revealed by God."

This is what I professed in my heart and would have professed in public had I been able to do so:

"I, Matthew, 21 years of age, born outside the Catholic Church, have held and believed errors contrary to her teaching. Now, enlightened by divine grace, I kneel before you, Reverend Father ...., having before my eyes and touching with my hand the holy Gospels. And with firm faith I believe and profess each and all the articles contained in the Apostles' Creed, that is: I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell, the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God, the Father almighty, from there He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy Catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
I firmly admit and embrace the apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and all the other constitutions and ordinances of the Church.
I admit the Sacred Scriptures in the sense which has been held and is still held by holy Mother Church, whose duty it is to judge the true sense and interpretation of Sacred Scripture, and I shall never accept or interpret them in a sense contrary to the unanimous consent of the fathers.
I profess that the sacraments of the New Law are truly and precisely seven in number, instituted for the salvation of mankind, though all are not necessary for each individual: baptism, confirmation, holy Eucharist, penance, anointing of the sick, holy orders, and matrimony. I profess that all confer grace, and that baptism, confirmation, and holy orders cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also accept and admit the ritual of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of all the aforementioned sacraments.
I accept and hold in each and every part all that has been defined and declared by the Sacred Council of Trent concerning original sin and justification. I profess that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, real, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; that in the holy sacrament of the Eucharist the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is really, truly, and substantially present, and that there takes place in the Mass what the Church calls transubstantiation, which is the change of all the substance of bread into the body of Christ and of all substance of wine into His blood. I confess also that in receiving under either of these species one receives Jesus Christ whole and entire.
I firmly hold that Purgatory exists and that the souls detained there can be helped by the prayers of the faithful.
Likewise I hold that the saints, who reign with Jesus Christ, should be venerated and invoked, that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated.
I firmly profess that the images of Jesus Christ and of the Mother of God, ever a Virgin, as well as of all the saints should be given due honor and veneration. I also affirm that Jesus Christ left to the Church the faculty to grant indulgences, and that their use is most salutary to the Christian people. I recognize the holy, Roman, Catholic, and apostolic Church as the mother and teacher of all the churches, and I promise and swear true obedience to the Roman Pontiff, successor of St. Peter, the prince of the apostles and vicar of Jesus Christ.
Moreover, without hesitation I accept and profess all that has been handed down, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and by the general councils, especially by the Sacred Council of Trent and by the Vatican General Council, and in special manner all that concerns the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff. At the same time I condemn and reprove all that the Church has condemned and reproved. This same Catholic faith, outside of which none can be saved, I now freely profess and I truly adhere to it. With the help of God, I promise and swear to maintain and profess this faith entirely, inviolately, and with firm constancy until the last breath of life. And I shall strive, as far as possible, that this same faith shall be held, taught, and publicly professed by all who depend on me and over whom I shall have charge.
So help me God and these holy Gospels."

People do not become Catholic because the Church is comfortable and fuzzy and "nice" and so ecumenical.  People, generally, do not find that appealing.  It is not a challenge, it does not set the heart on fire, it does not enlighten the mind, and it does not speak to the soul.  People do not become Catholic because it is the preferable form of worship of "the almighty" or because it is a nice religion.  The martyrs did not willingly die to prove that Islam is just as good as Catholicism, or that the Old Covenant is actually not abrogated, or that atheists are men of good will.

The martyrs died because they tried to fulfill the first text I gave at the beginning of this post; it is what Our Lord preached, it is what the saints taught and lived, and it is that for which the martyrs offered their earthly lives.

Nowadays, churchmen up and down the hierarchy mutter garbage in line with the second example, by their actions often, by their words too often as well.  They pedal ecumenical and interreligious rapprochement as salvific, they exalt worldly peace above the Pax Christi, and all whilst they fiddle, the world burns.

Would we really peddle this crap if we believed, from the full Profession of Faith above: "This same Catholic faith, outside of which none can be saved, I now freely profess and I truly adhere to it."