“Because he had a point to make. He made it. You missed it apparently.”
On the contrary, I got it! That’s the problem.
“He doesn’t. People are not interviewing him to be evangelized.”
He was living and celebrating Jewish feasts with a Rabbi who, when the Rabbi questioned him on evangelization, ruled it out. It wasn’t an interview.
Furthermore, this man was already his friend from Argentina. And the stated purpose was for social-gospel, lovey-dovey peace on Earth reasons, not for the peace and salvation of the soul through conversion.
“On the contrary, I got it! That’s the problem.”
Not if you’re posting this you didn’t.
“He was living and celebrating Jewish feasts with a Rabbi who, when the Rabbi questioned him on evangelization, ruled it out. It wasn’t an interview.”
And this is what was said according to the rabbi: “We come together without burying our identities. I spoke to him about evangelization, and he stated emphatically that the Catholic Church cannot engage in proselytism”, he said…’
So, the pope in no way condemned evangelism - which he has encouraged at every turn - but did condemn proselytism.
“Furthermore, this man was already his friend from Argentina.”
And? You don’t have any friends from back home?
“And the stated purpose was for social-gospel, lovey-dovey peace on Earth reasons, not for the peace and salvation of the soul through conversion.”
No. “He and the Pope are planning to travel together to the Holy Land next year. The Israeli and Palestinian authorities have invited Pope Francis, and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew1, wants him to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting of his predecessor, Athenagoras, with Paul VI in the Holy City.”
“We are dreaming of traveling together to Israel soon, and the Pope is working on this subject”, the Rabbi said. “I dream of embracing him at the Kotel, or Wailing Wall, and I will accompany him to Bethlehem, in the Palestinian territories. His presence can help a lot at this moment when the peace talks are starting again”, he added.