[Romulus]

After a quick read, I'd say Arinze's manner of speaking relies excessively on the assumption that he audience shares his views and semantic conventions. To everyone else (including Catholics not trained in the idiom of his particular mission) he comes across as ambiguous or worse. Arninze needs to understand that not everyone can hear what he's saying unless he uses terms common to all.

[sinkspur]

Arinze's comments seem perfectly clear, to me. Like Mother Teresa, he takes people where they are. Encounters are not opportunities for arm-twisting evangelization.

What did Mother Teresa say?

We are to help Buddhists be good Buddhists, to help Jews be good Jews, to help Muslims be good Muslims.