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Catholic churches do not engage in pulpit exchanges. No one is canonically authorized to offer the sermon at Mass (homily) except a Catholic deacon or priest.
Not a Muslim. Not even a Catholic layperson.
If you have seen some sort of "pulpit exchange" with the Catholics listening to a non-Catholic homilist, this is strictly against Canon law.

Once again, the problem would be with the Catholics not being Catholic enough. This is always to be deplored.

I was referring to nothing more or less than the type of thing described in the article at the top of this forum: a visit by a Catholic bishop to a mosque to announce what a wonderful religion islam is. I am sorry if I used an unfortunate phrase.

As I understand it, you live in Nashville, TN. Maybe you can answer my question: why do Catholics make nice with everyone in the universe except for Fundamentalist Protestants? Why are Fundamentalist Protestants the one and only religious community it's okay to have conflict with?

Why are moslems "fellow fundamentalists" with Catholics while Fundamentalist Protestants are anti-Catholic monsters? If the first eleven chapters of Genesis really are so corrosive to the Catholic worldview, they should never have been canonized as part of the Catholic bible.

Why is it okay to be a reconstructed pagan in Armenia but not a Fundamentalist Protestant?

Seriously. What's the deal with all this?

Actually, I live in Upper East TN. Tennessee has three grand divisions:

Western (= Mississippi River, Memphis, Elvis, jazz)
Central (=Cumberland Plateau, Nashville, Grand Old Oprey, Country and Bluegrass)
Eastern (=Appalachian Mountains, Knoxville, Old-Timey Acoustic, Gospel & White Spirituals).

I don't hold it against you, but we're not Nashville!

OK, honest questions, and I'll do my level best. But to clarify, maybe you can answer my question: Could you mention one conflict Catholics have had with Fundamentalists in my adult lifetime? (That would be in the last 40 years.) I'm --- seriously --- wracking my brain, and I can't think of any.

So "Why do you have these conflicts only with fundamentalist Christians" is like "Are you still beating your wife?" It presupposes something from jump street that I don't presuppose.

I don't get "Fundamentalist Protestants are anti-Catholic monsters." When I lived north of the Mason-Dixon line, the only fundamentalists I knew were pro-lifers who did "Operation Rescue" type sit-ins at abortion clinics, and we went to jail together and got along just fine.

When I moved to the mid-South 25 years ago, the only fundamentalists I knew were all my relations on my husband's side, the Baptists who allied with us very generously in putting together a Religious Liberty rally (whom I value and revere), and the Shape-Note singers--- some are Fundamentalists, some not.

So I'm examining my conscience: when did I or any Catholic I know ever diss a Protestant Fundamentalist?

Even the theological Biblical example you cited, makes me draw a blank.

You said, "... If the first eleven chapters of Genesis really are so corrosive to the Catholic worldview, they should never have been canonized as part of the Catholic bible."

I'm thinking, "Haven't I always been taught --- and gone on to teach my RCIA students --- that the first 11 chapters of Genesis are foundational to the whole Catholic worldview? The indispensable starting point for the whole Christian proclamation of Jesus Christ our Lord? After all, it teaches the crucial truths of Creation, the Fall, the promise of the Messiah, God's saving power is rescuing a doomed human race---"

Now I am not being totally ingenuous about this. I know you think the first eleven chapters of Genesis are geologically, hydrologically, astrophysically, zoologically, anatomically and physiologically exact in every detail, and the Catholic Church does not. We see it as a primordial history which provides the true moral and spiritual basis to everything we believe about the Trinity and the past and future of Man. We don't believe in it less than you do.

We would certainly argue about this -- I'm not sure, but I think you and I do not see eye-to-eye on the Trinity --- but it would be an absurdity to say the first eleven chapters of Genesis are "corrosive to the Catholic worldview." The "Catholic worldview" is incomprehensible without those sacred eleven chapters, divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit.

I would think that somebody who understands parables --- you do accept Jesus' parables? --- would understand that the truth comes in different formats, including the poem, the satire, the primordial prequel, and the parable.

"Why is it okay to be a reconstructed pagan in Armenia but not a Fundamentalist Protestant?"

What the clumpity-clump are you talking about?

"Seriously."

Seriously.

I await with ears WAY out there.