Paul Harvey stated today that the pope prayed facing Mecca???
I thought that the this Pope did not openly pray in the mosque nor at the "museum."
The previous one apparently did ?
But I may be wrong ?
Doesn't make any difference which way the Pope prays. If it makes the Muslims happy that he follows their superstitious little custom, well, there's no reason to give offense. There is nothing benighted or evil, in a Christian sense, about the direction of Mecca or any other direction.
This was a spiritually costless gesture from the Christian side.