Posted on 05/04/2023 10:53:18 AM PDT by ebb tide
By Francesca Merlo
Addressing participants at the VI Colloquium between the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Pope Francis encouraged each member, noting that with this being their sixth encounter, their perseverance is clear.
The theme of the colloquium, "Creative Commonalities between Christianity and Islam", the Pope said, reflects how “each of us is like the link in a long chain: many people have preceded us on the beautiful and challenging road of encounter and friendship, others will follow us, as we hope and pray, confirming that feeling of brotherhood that is the foundation of relations between peoples”.
Pope Francis then went on to express his appreciation and gratitude to King Abdullah II of Jordan for his attention to the Christian communities not only of his own country but also to those of the Middle East generally, “particularly in times marked by conflict and violence”.
The Royal Institute for Interreligious Studies, the Pope continued, “has among its main objectives the preservation and enhancement of the Arab Christian heritage”. In this regard, “I can only express further gratitude, because this not only benefits the Christian citizens of yesterday and today, but also protects and consolidates this heritage throughout the Middle East, so diverse and rich in ethnicities, religions, cultures, languages, and traditions”.
Bringing his message to a close, the Pope noted that the dialogue practiced and promoted requires a style of sincerity and mutual respect if it is to be fruitful, and requires “an awareness of both convergences and divergences”. He spoke of compassion for all, before adding that “we also believe that not everything ends with death, but that there is another life, eternal, where we will give account to God for our actions and receive reward or punishment”.
Finally, the Pope noted that “our common commitment is to a good life” and this, he concluded, “gives glory to God and joy to all those we meet on our earthly pilgrimage”.
Gee. All those Chick Tracts that the Holy Rollers used to hand out back in the 70’s were right after all.
I’m not speaking for him, but I believe he’s an Eastern Catholic now.
He is not. He’s a full blown Orthodox, apostate from the Catholic faith, and has since been attacking the Catholic Church incessantly.
bkmk
Nicely done Mr. Canfield.
No, they don’t.
Chrislam
Not to mention radically different whom they serve issues..
Commitments to radically different views of “the good life.”
If one converts to Orthodoxy one is an apostate to the organized Catholic Church but not to Christianity. Orthodox is now more orthodox than VII and Bergoglian semi paganism.
Moslem Heaven is a rather different sort of place with a horde of beautiful sex robots or maybe grapes. Actual women seem to be excluded.
Sorry, but fundamentalist Islam teaches that those who do not follow islam are chattel, no more than beasts of the field.
Do not try to equate these two religions.
So what? One's either a schismatic or a heretic, neither is a Catholic.
And outside the Church, there is no salvation.
I am not a Catholic either. But I used to have some respect for the RCC because it seemed they were good hanging onto what they thought was true. No more.
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