As for theft, we're not talking about invading the homes or villages of the pagans and destroying their idols or snatching them out of their hands. They placed their idols in our churches. That is the point. The Church is Catholic and Catholics have a right to not be confronted by non-Catholic deities, entities, whatever, in their Churches. If I go to an Amazonian village, then yes, I might expect to see these things.......but in a Catholic Church? Absolutely not.
exactly. It’s why nobody brings a Buddha figurine to Mecca and puts it in front of the Kaaba, for example. Such a move would clearly not be a way to open dialogue between religions.