Posted on 02/24/2016 7:52:36 AM PST by marshmallow
SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating "the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice."
"We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is," he said in a keynote address delivered Feb. 17 in the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.
The evening event took place against the backdrop of the first national Catholic-Muslim dialogue, which was held Feb. 17-18 at the Catholic university.
Last May, after more than 20 years of regional dialogues with representatives of the U.S. Muslim community, the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops established a national Catholic-Muslim dialogue.
Motivated by the call of "Nostra Aetate," the Second Vatican Council's declaration on the relationship between the Catholic Church and non-Catholic faiths, the dialogue seeks to foster understanding and collaboration between Catholics and Muslims. Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich has been named its first Catholic co-chairman.
In addition to Bishop McElroy's speech, the evening also featured a keynote speech by Sayyid M. Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America's Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, who reflected on the state of Catholic-Muslim relations from the Muslim perspective.
A discussion with both men was conducted on stage by Ami Carpenter, an associate professor at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, with members of the audience invited to ask questions.
In his remarks, Bishop McElroy exhorted Catholics "to recognize and confront the ugly tide of anti-Islamic bigotry" in the United States, to actively seek relationships with Muslims on a personal level, to accompany the Muslim community as it wrestles with religious liberty issues.....
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They all seem to have the same sulfurous smell.
It's very weird.
Lord, send us truly Catholic leaders please.
:) Excellent quote!! I wish I’d thought to use it!
post-judice......GREAT WORD!!! and HOW TRUE!!!
Here you go bishop
Another one of Satan's Catholic minions...A smart Catholic Christian needs to run from that Catholic hell-hole just as quick as he/she can...
Does anyone see muzlim women taking their headgear off and attending a Catholic church in a gesture of respect and ecumenism??? Of course not...They have no intentions of blending in...The only way there will be unity with the muzlims is for the Catholics to ultimately accept 'Allah' which they already do and get Mohammed in there...And it is going to happen...
2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Paul is NOT speaking of non believers in God...So the excuse that the muzlims worship the same God as the Catholics is completely irrelevant...
The unbelievers are unbelievers of Jesus Christ...God in the flesh...The only begotten Son of God...God says to get away from them, NOT unite with them...
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
There's actually a sin . . . "human respect" - caring more about what the World thinks of you than God.
“This was illustrated by a document issued by the Vatican on 14 May on the subject of world migration. In it, the head of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees, Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, warns women in traditionally Catholic countries about the risks of marrying Muslim men.”
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1052841.html
It really makes me miss the Pentecost novena prayer that used to be prayed more regularly (before the USCCB "moved" the Ascension to Sunday... *grrrrr....*)
By the gift of Fortitude the soul is strengthened against natural fear, and supported to the end in the performance of duty. Fortitude imparts to the will an impulse and energy which move it to under take without hesitancy the most arduous tasks, to face dangers, to trample under foot human respect, and to endure without complaint the slow martyrdom of even lifelong tribulation. "He that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved."
bigotry implies lack of knowledge. That’s actually not an issue. We know, and that’s their problem.
Guess the Catholic Church now considers God a bigot.
It will be interesting when Donald Trump becomes the next President how the bishops response will be.
AMEN,second it.
There is a word for it, call FEAR.
Shut up, Bob.
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