Posted on 05/23/2016 6:38:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Cardinal Kurt Koch, who leads ecumenical relations for the Vatican, made the comments at an interfaith meeting in Cambridge
Christians have a mission to convert all Muslims, according to one of Pope Francis’s senior aides.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, who leads ecumenical relations for the Vatican, made the comments at an interfaith meeting held by Cambridge University’s Woolf Institute.
Cardinal Koch also said that Christians should not try and convert Jews and should view Judaism as a “mother”.
“We have a mission to convert all non-Christian religions’ people [except] Judaism,” he said, before reportedly adding that this extended to jihadis responsible for persecuting Christians in the Middle East.
The cardinal also urged Christians to view Judaism as a “mother” and said Christainity and Judaism shared a special relationship.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
I’m glad someone cleared this up.
Mary chose to appear to 70,000 people at a place named after Mohammed’s daughter. She will convert them.
Don’t recall an exception in the Great Commission for the Jews.....
Our job is to preach the gospel and make disciples. It’s the gospel that converts.
I find it telling that Muslims show more reverence for Mary than for Jesus.
Maybe this “Vatican Official” is on to something?
> The RC Church does NOT say that any person, even a Jew, can be saved without Christ. Here is an exact quote from the document in question:
There's further,detailed discussion of the document in question on another Free Republic thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3373448/posts
"The theory that there may be two different paths to salvation, the Jewish path without Christ and the path with the Christ, whom Christians believe is Jesus of Nazareth, would in fact endanger the foundations of Christian faith.... "Confessing the universal and therefore also exclusive mediation of salvation through Jesus Christ belongs to the core of Christian faith. . . . [T]he Church and Judaism cannot be represented as "two parallel ways to salvation."
Obviously, I don't believe in making myself obnoxious to my Jewish friends by badgering them about converting to Christianity. But if the opportunity presents itself to witness to the saving power of our beloved and holy Jewish Messiah, I will do it.
What, otherwise, would we say? "Jesus wants to save everybody, except Jews?" "Jesus loves everybody, except Jews?"
Actually he is wrong. The Jews need conversion. They don’t believe in Jesus Chrst, and He is the reason anyone gets saved.
Belief in Mary saves zero people.
What anyone feels about Mary saves exactly zero people.
Just backing Francis’ position that conversion is something shared as a goal between Christianity and Islam.
Normalizing everything to then try to argue that the Muslims can proceed as they want but just drop the terrorism thing.
Problem is they’ve got it ass-backwards. Muslims don’t commit terrorism for Islam. Terrorists hide behind Islam to commit terrorism. And Islam makes it easy by openly teaching terrorism.
In fact, the fit is so close, it’s almost like a terrorist invented Islam to justify terrorism...
Nah... Nobody is that crazy... Right?
I guess the Roman Catholics dont think the Jews are worth saving.
People who think “apparitions” are of the real Mary will eventually find out they’ve been duped.
Only Christ Saves!
John 6:29
John 14:6
Romans 10:9-10
I fully agree, but converting all the Muslims is not going to be easy .. they like to kill us infidels... and they do it by bullets, bombs, fire burning alive, and crucifixions now too
(Allah/Satan has his early Legions very well armed...)
I do support a mission in a Moslem country that permits it, however the evangelists are not permitted to show visible signs of the Church and they are forbidden from openly preaching. It has to mostly be ‘by example’...
On the contrary, I think that is why Catholics tend to love the Jews; the Second Greatest Commandment.
Au contraire:
>>247. We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” (Rom 11:29). The Church, which shares with Jews an important part of the sacred Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant and their faith as one of the sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf. Rom 11:16-18). As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews among those called to turn from idols and to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes 1:9). With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with them we accept his revealed word.<<Evangelii Gaudium
No, but if showing reverence for the Mother of God brings one closer to her Son, that’s good.
You can’t believe in Mary without believing in her son.
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