Posted on 08/16/2016 5:37:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
Noted theologian Monsignor Nicola Bux strongly criticizes decision to allow readings from the Quran and participation by Muslim imams in liturgies held in several Italian cities.
Rome, Italy, Aug 9, 2016 | Among the thousands of people in Rouen cathedral on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016, for the funeral of Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest who was stabbed to death in his church by an Islamist terrorist, were also Muslims and Jews, in a show of solidarity similar to that of interfaith services that took place Sunday, August 31st, in France and Italy.
The presence of Muslim delegations at Sunday’s masses in Italy was mainly a result of Italy's Islamic Religious Community (COREIS) heeding the call of the French Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (IHEI), which works closely with the French interior ministry and which also sent delegates to French churches on Sunday. Thus COREIS delegates were at Sunday Mass in churches and parishes in cities including Agrigento, Bari, Brescia, Brindisi, Fermo, Genoa, Milan, Novara, Piacenza, Rome, Siena, Sondrio, Verona, Vicenza and Ventimiglia, “to bear witness to spiritual brotherhood”.
"We feel it is essential at this time,” COREIS said in another statement, “with this greeting from the Muslims of Italy to give a concrete signal of profound respect for the sacredness of the rites, the ministers and the places of worship of the Christian faith.”
“This enormous gesture puts offside those who would divide, those who want a strategy of terror," Italian bishops conference (CEI) spokesperson, Father Ivan Maffeis, told new agency ANSA in a July 29th report.
But this gesture appears to be causing the very divisions it was meant to avert, as a wave of criticism has come in not only from Muslim quarters but most notably, reported La Stampa on August 2nd, “also from a large....
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Stabbed to death? He had his head cut off!
Our clerics are absolutely clueless.
Reading from the Koran in a Catholic mass? Reading from Satan’s book in a Catholic mass?
Reminds me of a funeral ... I sat in the pew reading along and then re-reading scripture wondering WHERE the pastor came up with his description/interpretation. Do wha?
Are passages from “Mein Kampf” read at Holocaust remembrance events?
Imagine if a priest tried to read a prayer in the middle of an Islamic religious ceremony.
For example, the Apostles Creed.
Exactly! He would have his head cut off!
Is our world completely upside down?
This is what I am talking about in the other thread. The VaticaN II false ecumenism needs to STOP.
Muslims and Koran reading in what is supposed to be a CATHOLIC church.
The real issue here is so obvious to me.
It seems the Catholic Church has traded truth for “gestures”?
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