Posted on 02/24/2016 7:52:36 AM PST by marshmallow
SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating "the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice."
"We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is," he said in a keynote address delivered Feb. 17 in the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.
The evening event took place against the backdrop of the first national Catholic-Muslim dialogue, which was held Feb. 17-18 at the Catholic university.
Last May, after more than 20 years of regional dialogues with representatives of the U.S. Muslim community, the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops established a national Catholic-Muslim dialogue.
Motivated by the call of "Nostra Aetate," the Second Vatican Council's declaration on the relationship between the Catholic Church and non-Catholic faiths, the dialogue seeks to foster understanding and collaboration between Catholics and Muslims. Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich has been named its first Catholic co-chairman.
In addition to Bishop McElroy's speech, the evening also featured a keynote speech by Sayyid M. Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America's Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, who reflected on the state of Catholic-Muslim relations from the Muslim perspective.
A discussion with both men was conducted on stage by Ami Carpenter, an associate professor at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, with members of the audience invited to ask questions.
In his remarks, Bishop McElroy exhorted Catholics "to recognize and confront the ugly tide of anti-Islamic bigotry" in the United States, to actively seek relationships with Muslims on a personal level, to accompany the Muslim community as it wrestles with religious liberty issues.....
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McElroy is truly a "Class A" twit.
I’m more concerned with the scourge of mohammedan murder, rape, robbery, rioting, and destruction.
I would like to see him travel to a Islamic country and try spread his faith around what an idiot.
It’s not prejudice. It’s post-judice. This religion has shown its colors from the beginning, and several hundred years trial has brought in the verdict.
I hope he implored them to Open Carry or CC too. Just to let the muzzies know that Taqiyya doesn’t work in/on US:-)
I am more concerned about the Islamic scourge of anti-christian bigotry.
Revelation 3
14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this:
“’The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this:
15 “I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot.
16 So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
17 For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
18 I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed, and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see.
19 Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.
20 “’”Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, [then] I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me.
21 I will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne, as I myself first won the victory and sit with my Father on his throne.
22”’”Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”’”
* [3:14-22] The letter to Laodicea reprimands the community for being lukewarm (Rev 3:15-16), but no particular faults are singled out. Their material prosperity is contrasted with their spiritual poverty, the violet tunics that were the source of their wealth with the white robe of baptism, and their famous eye ointment with true spiritual perception (Rev 3:17-18). But Christ’s chastisement is inspired by love and a desire to be allowed to share the messianic banquet with his followers in the heavenly kingdom (Rev 3:19-21).
http://www.usccb.org/bible/revelation/3
(*sigh*) I’m getting awfully sick and tired of “courageous” bishops being “courageous” about items which could easily have been hand-approved by the DNC, while at the same time being spineless, silent, weak, and/or complicit with issues relating to moral imperatives (e.g. abortion, euthanasia, contraception, orthodoxy in general, etc.)...
Isn’t it odd, how some people are so “brave” about things which will gain them nothing but applause from the world (and/or a condescending smile from people who are smirking at the “useful idiot”)?
I’d like to round up all Catholic bishops and send them to Mosul to serve what’s left of the Christian community there. Any who survive can apply to be allowed back in this country.
Idiots like this will be Imams when their lands are overrun. They will switch sides without blinking an eye.
Yeah. Let’s hear him condemn the anti-Christian activity the Islamic terrorists engage in. When the Islamists “speak” against Christians, the Islamists use knives, swords, guns and bombs.
The bishop is an idiot.
Reminds me of standing in line at Whole Foods behind a hippy dippy couple who had just returned from Turkey and were telling the girl who was checking them out about how wonderful the muslims were over there and not at all like they had been portrayed. I made the simple statement, “Too bad that they keep blowing people up.” Oh my goodness!! I had to hear about the evil anti-abortion people shooting and blowing up abortion doctors. Sigh. There’s no fixing stupid.
Why doesn’t he challenge muslimes to combat the “ugly, anti-Christian bigotry” in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, “Palestine,” Libya, Yemen, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chechnya, Bosnia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and America?
Dhimmi and anti-Christian apostate.
Anything anti-islamic just tickles me plumb to death.
Dear Bishop McElroy: I am more concerned about anti-Christian bigotry from Muslims.
War with Islam is coming.
Period.
Islamic Society of North America’s Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, who reflected on the state of Catholic-Muslim relations from the Muslim perspective.”
The Society finds that Catholics are much harder to behead than some others as a large percentage have crucifixes around their neck and it dulls scimitars quite quickly.
"Mine certainly were. They were not only honest but heroic. I asserted them fearlessly. When the doctrine of the Resurrection ceased to commend itself to the critical faculties which God had given me, I openly rejected it. I preached my famous sermon. I defied the whole chapter. I took every risk."
"What risk? What was at all likely to come of it except what actually came-popularity, sales for your books, invitations, and finally a bishopric?"
"Dick, this is unworthy of you. What are you suggesting?"
"Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come by. We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful. At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of things that won applause. When, in our whole lives, did we honestly face, in solitude, the one question on which all turned: whether after all the Supernatural might not in fact occur? When did we put up one moment's real resistance to the loss of our faith?"
-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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