Did he plant a big sloppy one on the Koran?
Allah isn’t God and Moslems aren’t our “brothers.”
This is a great way to create more schisms in Christianity.
Just because they are brothers doesn’t mean that they can’t go bad.
He needs to lay off the wine.
He appears to be a socialist (with all the leftist garbage that goes with that) first and a Catholic second.
I have serious doubts about the Pope’s understanding of the struggle that lies ahead.
(But from someone who decries Western capitalism and feels an affinity to Che Guevera, calling a Muslim a "brother" may be apropo).
Did God create them too?
Stupid Pope.
...”our dear friends, the Saudis”...
sounds like john mccain reaching across the isle!
Cain killed his brother Abel.
Muslim invasions have killed tens of millions of Orthodox Christians over the past 1,400 years and have tried to destroy Christianity in the East. Some brothers! But you can't expect someone from the West to know or understand any of that.
Question: “Are we all God’s children, or only Christians?”
Answer: The Bible is clear that all people are Gods creation (Colossians 1:16), and that God loves the entire world (John 3:16), but only those who are born again are children of God (John 1:12; 11:52; Romans 8:16; 1 John 3:1-10).
In Scripture, the lost are never referred to as children of God. Ephesians 2:3 tells us that before we were saved we were by nature objects of wrath (Ephesians 2:1-3). Romans 9:8 says that it is not the natural children who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. Instead of being born as Gods children, we are born in sin, which separates us from God and aligns us with Satan as Gods enemy (James 4:4; 1 John 3:8). Jesus said, If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me (John 8:42). Then a few verses later in John 8:44, Jesus told the Pharisees that they belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. The fact that those who are not saved are not children of God is also seen in 1 John 3:10: This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
We become children of God when we are saved because we are adopted into Gods family through our relationship with Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:5-6; Ephesians 1:5). This can be clearly seen in verses like Romans 8:14-17: because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirsheirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Those who are saved are children of God through faith in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26) because God has predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will (Ephesians 1:5).
Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/all-God-children.html#ixzz32veMQJP5
did they make him take off his crucifix before allowing him onto the mount?
He should have said a prayer for Abraham and Isaac
“May no one abuse the name of God through violence!”
Hey Pope! Do you really think they are going to stop murdering, raping, stoning, hanging, burning churches and mutilating juss cuz you said so?
Pope defeats Moslems with warships, not stupoid lovey-dovey crap words.
Pope Pius V went to war against islam Turks- the real First World War at the Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571..
“If Christendom was split asunder with even Philip disputing papal control of the Church in Spain the pope nevertheless had the spiritual and temporal authority, the presence of a future saint, to assemble a Holy League,
a fighting force that included Catholic knights not only from the papal states and the Knights of Malta, but from Italy, Germany, and Spain; and even from England,
Scotland, and Scandinavia, Catholics and freebooters,
gentleman adventurers and convicts condemned to row the galleys.”
Pope Pius V
Pope Pius V....” It was his incessant diplomacy that finally brought together the forces of the papal states, the Knights of Malta, Venice, its smaller rival Genoa, the Savoyards, and, most important, Spain and its possessions Naples and Sicily to form the Holy League.”
...”Catholic losses were 7,500 dead though many of these were knights and noblemen and another 22,000 wounded (including Miguel de Cervantes).
Pope Pius V, who had commanded the faithful to pray the rosary for victory, was convinced that it was prayer that had turned the tide. The Battle of Lepanto
became the feast day of Our Lady of Victory, later of Our Lady of the Rosary.”
H. W. Crocker III
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7391
I consider his means of address as him being courteous. Nothing more or less. I can’t envision Pope Francis being insulting to them inside the “Dome of the Rock.”
The Catholic Church will have him and his liberal ideas around for a long time. No vote to replace him or impeachment for bad leadership.