"When the ecumenical movement took off in the early '70s, liberals thought that everything would end up pointing in their direction."

I can't imagine this sentence making sense anywhere except in the mouth of someone from the US (where "liberal" has become a term of abuse).

And ... I've said this before but clearly it has to be said again ... "ecumenism" is only about inter-Christian relations.  

So there we have it ... comments about ecumenism from someone who doesn't even know what ecumenism is.