Is the Pope intentionally trying to sabotage interfaith dialog or is he just blind?

Answer 1

Everybody needs to step out of their dogmatic shoes for the purpose of furthering charity. There's a world full of people who are starving, without proper clothing or a decent shelter. I wonder how they feel, sitting in the dust and watching the leaders of the world's religions fight about who's going to heaven. I'd say he's blind and so are a lot of so-called leaders.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the meek inherit?

Answer 2

No, he is forcing it to be academically rigorous. He will not permit reunion with Protestants unless they return to both the form and substance of the early Church. Reading the writings of those who were trained and knew the apostles, such as Clement the third Pope, Polycarp who was a redactor for John's Gospel, and Ignatius of Antioch, you cannot end up with anything like Protestantism unless you fool yourself or carefully pick and choose specific passages and do not look at their writings as a whole.

He is saying Protestants must reform themselves in the ancient model and are not free to do anything they want. At last count, there were 42,000 Protestant denominations all believing to be the correct Church. Some Protestants believe in baptism, some do not; some require foot washing, some do not; some have communion, some do not; some require snake handling, some do not; some require speaking in tongues, some do not; some permit women ministers, some do not; some use 66 books, some have used 63( Luther threw out James, Jude and Revelations), and some use 73; some use the bible extensively in their services as do Catholics, some never even quote once from it; some have bishops, some do not; some have deacons and some do not; some have presbyters and some do not; some only speak if the spirit moves them and some are loud and boisterous and many are in the middle. Protestantism has become a hodgepodge of nothingness. Protestantism is a meaningless concept and will only make sense if it returns to the first and original practices of what was considered orthodox Christianity.

He is saying look deeply at yourself, what are you and why are you there. You must fix yourself and return to that early Church, not as it is interpreted to exist by your denomination but as historians show it existed.

To Orthodox he is saying that honorary authority is not sufficient to protect the Church, that that idea is defective and results in meaningless antagonisms. He does in other documents agree that papal authority needs materially reviewed to remove historical accretions, but Peter clearly has a unique role given by Jesus that the other eleven do not share.

Answer 3

No...the Pope is not wrong nor is he a saboteur.

If you read anything he's ever written...you will be amazed at the insight and intelligence. He is so well educated, and so well spoken.

Additionally, he knows other faiths better then many of those faith. He knows that interfaith dialog is important but not so important as to undermine the foundation of the Catholic Church. He stands strong, and he stands up for Christ and Christ's Church.

Trying to trash the Pope will get you no where. He is the head of Christ's Church here on earth...and the gate of hell will not prevail against it.

That includes instigators.

Answer 4

Interfaith dialog between religious leaders is a charade. Every religious leader is committed to the belief that his religion is the only true one and all others are false and/or defective. Far from being blind, the Pope I think, sees clearly the futility of the exercise and thus has not allowed it to influence his judgment
as shepherd of the Catholic faithful.

Answer 5

Hello,

Not that I can see. He was quoted entirely out of context on his speech in Germany last year that shows either the press are liars and try to distort the truth for the way the partial phrase was released .

If I am quoting phrases from Mein Kampf to prove the book is a great lesson in xenophobia, but someone takes one of my lines quoting Hitler like " the J's are parasites who ruined the German people " and passes it to yahoo forgetting to mention the text it was coming from then I get it deleted and branded as a Jew hater. Perhaps in general our reading comprehension levels have declined drastically over the last few decades,

Here are a few of his abilities:

As well as his native German, Benedict XVI fluently speaks Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin, and has a knowledge of Portuguese. He can read Ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew. He is a member of a large number of academies, such as the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He plays the piano and has a preference for Mozart and Bach[3].

He dosen't sound blind to me at all. Just because I do not like to hear something he says, does not necessarily make him wrong and you don't get to that position by being a dim whit.

Michael

Answer 6

News: POPE APPROVES WIDER USE OF LATIN IN MASS
- me: ya, like this will clear up the MASS ignorance ww: Not!
- bishop spong: return'g to middle ages = intellectual suicide
- matthew fox: rcc is 'downing itself' with "ignorance" (is bliss)

As to what popes do, intentionally, matthew fox(former priest) said on Vision TV interview: the last pope was visited by GWB and they made a deal, and thereafter the pope made a decree that Kerry was unfit to take communion, thereby swaying the presidential election in USA to GWB, AGAIN, which kinda made USA as twice fallen as Baby-lon in Rev'tn.

May your ha ha become aha
May your law law become grace
May your them vs them become us
The Lord is l-o-n-gSUFFERING ---> "us-ward" = salvation,
BECAUSE bwd <---them-ward is as destruction(perdition)

"Peace and Safety" in "Law worketh Wrath"? Evidently Not!

Come on ppl, it's 2007 'AD'---> only goes 'one way', "unto"
the grace us end declared from the begin & already written:

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.

Answer 7

He does seem rather inept with public relations eh? The former Pope was involved in theater in his young life, and knew the importance of imagery, the latter doesn't seem to have a clue.

Answer 8

Though not Christian, I would think the pope achieve his position based on the support of his peers. As such, if he is [blind] then so are those who are around him.

Answer 9

"Please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the meek inherit?"

last i heard, it was the meek who are the problem...

(okay, how lame am i that i take such pleasure in quoting monty python at every possible opportunity?)

Answer 10

Well, considering that he has allowed us to set up an office in the Vatican, I would say that you are sorely mistaken.