Posted on 11/18/2019 7:07:45 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME - Interreligious dialogue is an important way to counter fundamentalist groups as well as the unjust accusation that religions sow division, Pope Francis said.
Meeting with members of the Argentine Institute for Interreligious Dialogue Nov. 18, the pope said that in “today’s precarious world, dialogue among religions is not a weakness. It finds its reason for being in the dialogue of God with humanity.”
Recalling a scene from the 11th-century poem, “The Song of Roland,” in which Christians threatened Muslims “to choose between baptism or death,” the pope denounced the fundamentalist mentality which “we cannot accept nor understand and cannot function anymore.”
“We must beware of fundamentalist groups; each (religion) has their own. In Argentina, there are some fundamentalist corners there,” he said. “Fundamentalism is a plague and all religions have some fundamentalist first cousin.”
According to its website, the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue was founded in Buenos Aires in 2002 and was inspired by then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a way “to promote understanding among men and women of different religious traditions in our city and the world.”
The pope welcomed the members of the institute who are in Rome to reflect on the document on “human fraternity” and improving Christian-Muslim relations, which was signed Feb. 4 by Francis and Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb, the grand imam of al-Azhar and a leading religious authority for many Sunni Muslims.
The intention of the document, the pope explained, was a way to adopt a “culture of dialogue” while respecting each other’s unique identity.
“This is key: Identity cannot be negotiated because if you negotiate your identity, there is no dialogue, there is submission. Each (religion) with its own identity is on the path of dialogue,” he said.
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How did the muslims happen to be in Spain and France again?
I expect the Vatican will now be serving Chick-fil-A at these ecumenical gatherings.
The anti Papists are out in full force on your threads tonight
It’s getting to the point with this guy where protesters might just put up a effigy of him tied to a stake weary of the directives he is making.
Too bad they can’t impeach a pope.
This a$$-clown projecteth waaay too much.
He, and his filthy communist/muslim ilk, ARE the plague.
STJPII wrote:
The anti Papists are out in full force on your threads tonight
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That would be EVERYONE in Heaven and EVERYONE who knows that it is ONLY by the blood of Jesus that sins are forgiven.
NOT the ‘church’,,,,,
NOT the confessional......
NOT the ‘pope’.....!!!!
Anyone remember this pope making a plea to ISIS when they were butchering Christians and other non Muslims. Has he reopened negotiations with China as they brutally put Muslims in concentration camps and harass Christians? He is not a serious person.
Pope is just fine and dandy with communism, though.
No Mr Fake Pope,
Religious fundamentalism isn’t a plague, religious fanaticism is.
"religious" fundamentalism IS at least a cancer.
SPIRITUAL fundamentalism on the other hand is a personal relationship with God whereby you you know who He is and what He wants and it is all ...... really ..... basic and ..... ahem ..... fundamental.
Ye must be born again.
bttt!
Jesus sounds pretty fundamentalist to me.
I pray that the Pope reconsiders his words for they may lead many souls astray.
Thinking this clown has to be a homosexual, aside from the nonsense he speaks about Christ and Christianity (and Catholicism). What a loon!
And it is nothing but a meteorite black rock that once stood in a medieval market square-— primitive, paganistic stone worshippers on the “pitch” that mo-ham head stood on it.
What primitivism.
Fundamentalist secularism is also a plague.
It’s time Frankie went for a swim in the Tiber. Bound and gagged.
There is a cancer in the church.
If by that you mean secular Statism... the State (govt. and social hierarchy of thieving socialists) then is the religion, and life a constant scratching the ground for the political favors and crumbs that are allowed to only the persistent.
Devoid of scripture and faith- then yeah— fundamental secularism (equals uniform misery). Impossible to achieve any social stability in such a world, so it’s no surprise the degradation this non-adherance to moral codes and destruction of core beliefs has done to the glue of society. What a Marxist Pope thinks is “progress”, in all of his own conceit.
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