Do you also agree with John Paul’s reasoning to call for the Assisi group hugs with schismatics, heretics and pagans?
I think we should respectfully converse with such people without denying an iota of the truth. Here’s what we believe, we cannot water it down. I had problems with the Assisi gathering. The rumors were that then Cardinal Ratzinger (Benedict) had problems with it. An example of the reason dialogue can be useful is that Pope John Paul II used his cordial relationship with Muslims to get them to join with him in blocking the immoral Clinton agenda for poorer countries at the United Nations.