Posted on 05/18/2016 3:04:00 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Islam and Christianity share the "same idea of conquest", and for that reason, Islam should not be viewed as a threat, said Pope Francis in a newspaper interview this week.
"It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam," he conceded to the French Catholic newspaper La Croix. "However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew's Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest."
Ostensibly, the Pope was drawing a parallel between the Islamic "conquest" known as jihad, a holy war or struggle waged against infidels, and Christian missionizing. The comparison was part of a larger conversation about the increasingly desperate refugee crisis currently facing Europe. Pope Francis has been an outspoken voice on the issue of Arab refugees who seek asylum, encouraging governments to take in migrants and "integrate" them into western societies despite widespread concerns that the largely Muslim populations might harbor extremist or terrorist elements...
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I seem to remember visiting a number of MISSIONS in California that were founded by the CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Just exactly who is this guy????
Scary, at best what comes out of his mouth.
I’m surprised the Pope hasn’t allowed St. Peter’s to be converted into a mosque.
That might be quite contrary to God's plans. The reason we seem to be constantly losing to Evil is because He has already told us that the world will become a sinful cesspool before Jesus returns to set thing right. Francis may be a critical cog in the plan......
Not surprised.
The Francisians went on to taking good care of the holy shrines in the Holy Land so they KNEW they had to work with the Muslims in order to protect those shrines.
The Catholics I know cannot stand this Pope. The church will outlive this heretic.
It would seem to me that if the Pope were leading the true Church of Christ, then God has a much better way of getting rid of a bad pope than impeachment.
He is a typical Jesuit socialist who is farther left than most Jesuit socialists. Also dumber than dirt.
I love Catholics, they are brothers and sisters in Christ.
That being said, I cannot stand this pope. He is not only a Marxist, but I dare say he is hardly a Christian.
Who REALLY is responsible for the election of this guy? (Lutheran wondering)
I wanted to call your attention to my #97 which is not totally comprehensive. Not to proselytize but to set certain popular historical errors aside. You may well disagree with us on matters of theology but the history in that post (which has nothing to do with differences between Catholics and other Christians) is the history. In controversies as to these facts, I choose what I believe to be true when I cannot be absolutely sure but I approach such controversies with the mind of a recovering trial lawyer ad looking for the best evidence.
An Evangelical Christian working as a tech at the dialysis center where I receive treatment lent me a book by a former atheist or agnostic reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Yale Law School alumnus. The book is The Case for Christ and was written by Lee Strobel about his own investigation of Christ and the Scriptural accounts about Him that led to his own conversion when, to his horror, his wife had suddenly become a fervent Evangelical believer. He was going to muster the evidence, debunk the claims about Jesus Christ and teach his gullible wife a lesson.
Instead, after consulting about 20 experts and scholars on Scripture, the crucifixion, the Resurrection, the early Christian community, St. Paul, relations between early Christians and the Jews at Jerusalem. etc., he concluded for Jesus Christ and His absolute authenticity. The now Rev. Mr. Lee Strobel is an assistant pastor at an Illinois Evangelical MegaChurch; Willowbrook Community Church. Allow this Catholic to recommend to you and to my fellow Catholics the thoroughly Reformed Rev. Mr. Strobel's book.
I also lent the Evangelical dialysis tech a copy of the late Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life of Christ, one of the more outstanding volumes in my extensive collection.
Again, God bless you and yours.
I have heard of the book and the author but have never read it.
I should sometime. I’ll see if I can find a copy somewhere.
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