Posted on 08/02/2013 8:05:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Muslims and Christians must raise young people “to think and speak respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or denigrating their convictions and practices”, Pope Francis has said.
In a personal message to the world’s Muslims to mark the end of Ramadan, the Pope said: “Turning to mutual respect in inter-religious relations, especially between Christians and Muslims, we are called to respect the religion of the other, its teachings, its symbols, its values. Particular respect is due to religious leaders and to places of worship. How painful are attacks on one or other of these!
“It is clear that, when we show respect for the religion of our neighbours or when we offer them our good wishes on the occasion of a religious celebration, we simply seek to share their joy, without making reference to the content of their religious convictions.
“Regarding the education of Muslim and Christian youth, we have to bring up our young people to think and speak respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or denigrating their convictions and practices.
“We all know that mutual respect is fundamental in any human relationship, especially among people who profess religious belief. In this way, sincere and lasting friendship can grow.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
The Pope should read the first chapter of Lawrence Wright’s “The Looming Tower”, then get back to us.
I do not that’s for sure. It is a false religion.
Is this really a matter of prudential judgment or just another reflection of the false ecumenism (aka Kumbaya-ism) of Vatican II?
Blaspheme! There will be Fatwas calling for the infidel Pope's beheading at next Friday's sermons.
In a personal message to the world’s Muslims to mark the end of Ramadan, the Pope said: “Turning to mutual respect in inter-religious relations, especially between Christians and Muslims, we are called to respect the religion of the other, its teachings, its symbols, its values.
As a fellow Catholic, I get your desire to defend the Pope, I do. I used to do it all of the time. I just can’t defend this. This is more false ecumenical crap.
I noticed you didn’t defend Jesus Christ and Christianity on that thread either. I never even saw the thread till you posted it here, but you certainly did to have commented on it here. Hypocrisy much?
And what do you personally do to “mark the end of Ramadan”?
“Muslims and Christians must raise young people “to think and speak respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or denigrating their convictions and practices”, Pope Francis has said.
What part of ”and Christians” do you not understand?
It is a matter of mistaken prudential judgment as was "ecumenism" generally and the Kumbaya nonsense for mental defectives and Bishops Trautman of Erie and Imesch of Joliet and the unlamented Bernardin and Law and McPhony.
Truly Magisterial statements are relatively rare. Embarrassing faulty prudential judgments happen frequently.
True "ecumenism" occurs when Russell Kirk became a Catholic late in life and Friedrich von Hayek and many Anglican clergy eager to swim the Tiber to flee some of the shenanigans in that denomination. It might also occur if Ted Kennedy had become a formal devil worshiper or other analogous developments.
In it she explains how she had her nuns read Vatican II thoroughly -- and what they found changed EWTN.
They found that Vatican II endorsed the Latin Mass -- so Mother changed her programming.
I do think that the US Bishops did not interpret it correctly, but went their own wayward way.
Thank you! Likewise, the image of prissy and hideously self-centered Euroweenies finding "motherhood viscerally distasteful and fatherhood just too difficult." Poor things! Imagine how much they will enjoy being ruled by the tender mercies of "Sharia Law" because they just could not be bothered with what they think of as being mere breeders when they sooooo prefer munching brie, guzzling chablis and ever striving for celebrity status like regular Kardashians without breaking a visible sweat!
Verga lives not far from you (somewhat rural Virginia, I believe) and if any of your many wonderful kids ever wishes to learn drafting, I believe he is the one to teach them.
As ever, may God bless you and Verga and all of yours respectively!
The last 50 years have often been unkind to the Church because of that "progressive" false flag operation blessed by their "father" below.
Mother Angelica is a magnificent servant of God.
May God bless you and yours and all the good work you do here and elsewhere!
Said Pope just failed what Jesus Christ told us to do, Take the Gospel to all the world!!! If he doing this, then he is not obeying the LORD!!!
Uh, wrong. Religion is man’s attempt to get to God. Christianity is a personal relationship with the LORD. Thus, anything else is a religion, whether they worship a rock, tree, false moo-ham-hoks, fat budda, or whatever else.
whose side are you are on
In 2000, the Hartford Archdiocese, despite having a full college campus of a seminary just west of the University of Hartford in Bloomfield had three seminarians total and probably none ready for ordination. JP II put a high premium on the recruitment of seminarians and promoted those bishops who were good at it. Just as our families need more children, our bishops need to recruit many more high quality candidates for the priesthood. I do pray that the next archbishop of Hartford will be a star in that respect and others.
God bless!
To summarize: "Did not! Did too! Did not! Did too! Did not! Did too!..." (Rinse and repeat until those who refuse to bash fellow conservatives and Christians wander off in bored disgust). Accept the fact that His flock shall not be as one, that there is much good in Christian you and in those other Christians whom you see fit to bash and who may bash you back.
Concentrate on the 95% on which all Christians agree rather than that other 5%. Join together when we can do so with integrity. Depart from one another with integrity and mutual respect and a little sadness when we cannot so join. Pick no unnecessary fights. Serve Him in all things!
“Christians need to unite in the face of such challenges rather than continuing the endless intramural food fight over religious differences among us.”
Such a “unity” founded upon nothing at all except a name certainly cannot stand. The difference between those of us who believe in the sufficiency of God’s grace to save, and those of you who deny it, is a huge gap that cannot coexist. I would say that it is creates such a different effect on the heart of man, and is such a different world view, that it divides us into two separate religions entirely.
Gospel purity, and the true worship of Christ, is of higher importance than a farcical unity against a common enemy. When it comes down to it, it is God who is actually in charge, who raises up some nations and brings down others. There is nothing man can do that can resist the will of God, and nothing we can do to get anything of ourselves. “... what hast thou that thou didst not receive?” (1 Co 4:7). To say that we must unite in order to defeat Islam, instead of asserting that it is God who controls our fates and can defeat Islam with just an army of 300, like in Gideon’s day, is to deny the providence and almighty power of God.
As for me, I will prefer to keep what I know to be true, and not be unequally yoked with those who deny the essential truths of Christianity. Compromise is a terrible sin.
Remember that Jesus prayed for the unity of all who believe in HIM.
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