Posted on 02/05/2024 4:57:01 PM PST by ebb tide
Pope Francis has decried the negative effects of “an absence of fraternal solidarity,” calling for greater “dialogue” and cross-creed collaboration in two messages issued to mark the International Day of Human Fraternity.
In a message published on the U.N.’s International Day of Human Fraternity, Pope Francis marked the fifth anniversary of the Abu Dhabi document on human fraternity, which he signed with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in 2019.
“It is encouraging to see that the journey of dialogue, companionship and mutual esteem which began in Abu Dhabi five years ago continues to bear fruit,” Francis wrote to Mohamed Abdelsalam, who is the secretary-general of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity – the award given to individuals and organizations in light of the 2019 Abu Dhabi document.
READ: Spanish Freemasons praise Pope Francis, laud ‘International Fraternity Day’
Francis thanked the Grand Imam along with the president of the U.A.E. for “their vital support of initiatives aimed at promoting the values of fraternity and social comradeship founded on the truth that all human beings are not only created equal but are intrinsically connected as brothers and sisters, children of our one Father in heaven.”
The pontiff added that “we cannot fail to recognize the effects of an absence of fraternal solidarity being felt all too intensely by men and women everywhere and by our natural world.” Such an absence of fraternity, he wrote, is evidenced as the “negative impact of environmental destruction and social degradation continues to cause immense suffering for a vast number of our brothers and sisters around the globe.”
He referenced the “timely” nature of promoting the “principles” of fraternity, which he said “can guide humanity through the dark shadows of injustice, hatred and war into the brightness of a world community marked by those values that we see manifest in the varied efforts of this year’s awardees.”
Ultimately, wrote Francis, should such ideals be spread, then the “recipients” of such fraternity can “cast important light on the path to greater social solidarity and fraternal love.”
Francis’ message was read by Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot at the award ceremony in Abu Dhabi. Guixot is the prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and a member of the Higher Committee for Human Fraternity, which decides upon the annual winners of the Zayed Award.
Similar themes were found in a letter from Pope Francis to the International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (PLURIEL), currently being held in Abu Dhabi alongside the Zayed Award events.
Francis stated that there are “three flaws in the human spirit that destroy fraternity and that must be properly identified if we are to rediscover wisdom and peace.” The three issues he identified were “ignorance of others, absence of listening,” and an “education in intellectual flexibility.”
The pope quoted from his 2020 encyclical on human fraternity, Fratelli tutti, which is widely argued to promote religious indifferentism, highlighting the theme of “dialogue.”
“Getting closer, expressing ourselves, listening to each other, looking at each other, getting to know each other, trying to understand each other, looking for points of contact, all this is summed up in the verb ‘to dialogue,’” he wrote.
Closing his address to the Islamic research group, Francis called on them to “step outside your disciplines, remain curious, cultivate flexibility, listen to the world, don’t be afraid of this world, listen to your brother whom you didn’t choose but whom God put next to you to teach you to love.”
The pope did not mention Christ, the primacy of the Catholic Church, or the call to conversion in either of his two related texts. His two interventions are very much in line with the stance that Francis has taken in recent years, especially in light of the Abu Dhabi document and the kind of “fraternity” promoted by Fratelli tutti, two texts that are problematic for Catholics.
While Pope Francis has made such “fraternity” an increasingly major aspect of his pontificate – such as at inter-religious events in Rome, Kazakhstan, and Bahrain – and has most regularly held such events in tandem with Islamic leaders, such as the Grand Imam, his stance is seemingly at odds with Catholic tradition.
READ: Pope seems to ‘overturn’ Gospel in statement with Grand Imam: Church historian
The Abu Dhabi text has been described as seemingly seeking to “overturn the doctrine of the Gospel” due to its promotion of equality of religions in a form of “fraternity.”
According to Church historian Roberto de Mattei, when “fraternity” is divorced from Christian charity, “far from constituting an element of cohesion in society,” it “becomes the source of its disintegration.” He argued that “if men, in the name of fraternity, are forced to live together without an end that gives meaning to their sense of belonging, the ‘ark’ becomes a prison.”
Fratelli tutti has also been similarly condemned by former papal nuncio to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, as promoting a “blasphemous” form of brotherhood without God as well as “religious indifferentism.”
READ: Abp. Viganò on Pope’s new Fratelli Tutti document: Brotherhood against God is ‘blasphemous’
Archbishop Viganò added that “religious indifferentism, implicitly promoted in the text Fratelli tutti, which defines as ‘a good for our societies’ the presence of any religion – instead of ‘the liberty and exaltation of Holy Mother Church’ – denies in fact the sovereign rights of Jesus Christ, King and Lord of individuals, of the societies and of nations.”
Pope Leo XIII condemned such arguments in his 1888 encyclical Libertas. Referring to the Church’s relationship with other religions, Leo wrote that the Catholic Church tolerates
certain modern liberties, not because she prefers them in themselves but because she judges it expedient to permit them, she would in happier times exercise her own liberty; and, by persuasion, exhortation, and entreaty would endeavor, as she is bound, to fulfill the duty assigned to her by God of providing for the eternal salvation of mankind.
Ping
Simple question, which pope does one believe?
Seem to recall a passage in the Bible that says there will come a time when people shall search the church for Jesus and he will be no place to be found.
Never thought to take this literally but there you have it.
Why would a non-Catholic even care?
Eff Francis. Modern Day Holy War is Correct...The Beelzebub of this time
I read somewhere that Frances was put in to destroy the Catholic Church. I certainly believe that.
The Harlot is moving towards a One World Religion.
A Catholic poem:
LGBT in front of me, pro-abort behind;
all of them immaculate,
standing in the Communion line.
:-(
And I’m pretty sure you’re the author, an apostate from the True Church.
Very weak at that.
He’s a Marxist. He has refashioned Christianity to conform to his Marxist ideology.
That’s because he’s NOT the Pope. An evil pos usurper that’s doing satan’s bidding.
I doubt that he is Christian.
He didn't take office against Catholic protocol. YOUR College of Cardinals elected him to be YOUR pope, like it or not.
Francis thanked the Grand Imam along with the president of the U.A.E. for “their vital support of initiatives aimed at promoting the values of fraternity and social comradeship founded on the truth that all human beings are not only created equal but are intrinsically connected as brothers and sisters, children of our one Father in heaven.”
“On 7 November 2017, he met Pope Francis in the Vatican, to discuss spreading the culture of peace and coexistence and renouncing extremism and Islamophobia. In February 2019, they met again in Abu Dhabi during the Pope’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, where he also signed the Document on Human Fraternity. On 15 November 2019, they met again in the Vatican, to achieve the goals of the signed document. This text later inspired the UN resolution that designated February 4 as the International Day of Human Fraternity”
Here are some of the ways he promotes fraternity, social comradeship and all being equal:
- In an article published shortly after his appointment as president of Al-Azhar University, he was described as “a regime loyalist and member of Mr. Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party [who] takes a firm stance against the Muslim Brotherhood”.
Tayeb was quoted as saying that Al-Azhar University would “never be an open field for the Brotherhood”
- In 2011, following the Egyptian revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood held a rally at the Al-Azhar mosque to oppose what it described as the Judaization of Jerusalem. He said at the rally that “the al-Aqsa Mosque is currently under an offensive by the Jews” and “we shall not allow the Zionists to Judaize al-Quds [Jerusalem]”. He also alleged that Jews around the world were trying to prevent Islamic and Egyptian unity.
- He backed the military coup against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
-He has strongly condemned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and stated that it is acting “under the guise of this holy religion and have given themselves the name ‘Islamic State’ in an attempt to export their false Islam” and (citing the Quran).
“The punishment for those who wage war against God and his Prophet and who strive to sow corruption on earth is death, crucifixion, the severing of hands and feet on opposite sides or banishment from the land. This is the disgrace for them in this world and in the hereafter they will receive grievous torment”.
- He wrote that Islam forbids Muslim women from marrying non-Muslims, because the latter do not believe in the Prophet Muhammad and his religion, meanwhile Muslim men would allow their non-Muslim women to practice their religion freely”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_el-Tayeb
The Muslim world has been the eternal enemy of Rome aka The Catholic Church. Muslims invaded and sacked the outskits of Rome and the Vatican in 846
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_raid_against_Rome
The top Muslim religious leaders are overjoyed to have such a dumb, cave-in of a Pope —Francis
And YOUR electoral college chose Joe Biden to be YOUR POTUS, like it or not.
Uh… Simple answer:
Neither one nor the other.
Catholicism is the problem, not the “pope”. He’s (as they’ve all been) is just a tool.
“And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?“ Rom 10 IIRC
I’m handing you the good news. The “simple question” is “what will you do with it?”
The Demon Pope
Got to downplay that Christ thingie when you are running for the False Prophet job.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.