Posted on 10/31/2025 11:11:10 AM PDT by ebb tide
CWN Editor's Note: In a reflection for the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the archbishop of Rabat, Morocco, said that “we must abandon the false paradigm of ‘true religion, false religion.’”
“Religions, for their part, have the responsibility to offer paths of meaning and truth, not of domination,” said Spanish-born Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, SDB. “No religion can appropriate the truth, as if it were its sole owner. No one possesses the truth; if anything, it is the truth that possesses us all, and in every religion there are glimmers of truth.”
The prelate also called for “conditions that allow everyone to live in religious freedom and to find answers to the questions that arise in religions.” (The US State Department has documented restrictions on religious freedom in Morocco, including prison terms for the crime of “undermining the Islamic religion.”)
Romero was consecrated a bishop in 2018 and leapfrogged into Bergoglio's college of corrupt cardinals, in 2019.
Sounds like someone’s been day-drinking.
I think you’d get better theology from Caesar Romero (a k a Joker, 1966 Batman).
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.
Get rid of these damned heretics.
He's echoing Pope Leo.
>> “Religions, for their part, have the responsibility to offer paths of meaning and truth, not of domination,”
Oh really.
“I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. NO ONE comes to the Father EXCEPT BY ME. ALL authority has been given to Me, in Heaven and on the earth.”
Remind me Who made those audacious and non-inclusive claims, “Cardinal”?
By the way, to claim Cardinality for yourself is rather audacious in itself... maybe you should take a seat! Better yet kneel before the King of Kings, repent and beg forgiveness.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/religion
religion, human beings’ relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine, or worthy of especial reverence. It is also commonly regarded as consisting of the way people deal with ultimate concerns about their lives and their fate after death. In many traditions, this relation and these concerns are expressed in terms of one’s relationship with or attitude toward gods or spirits; in more humanistic or naturalistic forms of religion, they are expressed in terms of one’s relationship with or attitudes toward the broader human community or the natural world. In many religions, texts are deemed to have scriptural status, and people are esteemed to be invested with spiritual or moral authority. Believers and worshippers participate in and are often enjoined to perform devotional or contemplative practices such as prayer, meditation, or particular rituals. Worship, moral conduct, right belief, and participation in religious institutions are among the constituent elements of the religious life.
Run that by Islam, just for laughs.
Stupid Spanish Catholics (especially the Jesuits) helped foster Liberation Theology in the New World after the end of World War II. Spaniards, generally speaking, are the last to learn. Of anything.
The African Cardinals, especially from Nigeria are the most conservative.
“No one possesses the truth”. I would ask him: “What is the truth that you believe?”.
I’m a Lutheran; but, it distresses me whenever I see this sort of crap in the Catholic Church.
The catholic jokes just keep coming...
apostate
Catholic going on Unitarian universalist.
Either Jesus is God, or He is not.
I wish to apologize for my Potestant interuption.
But...
Matthew 25:31-34
King James Version
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
The leaders who are embarrassed by the claims of Christ should have the courage of their convictions and leave the Church. But then they wiuld lose their comfortable lives.
After all Christ has done for them, they are embarrassed by Him.
SMH.
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