LDS Alaska Mission President says missionaries do not proselytize members of other religions!

[Caprica]

All U.S. Catholics are under standing orders not to engage in proselytization.

Where does that article state that?

It actually agrees with what Pahoran has stated.

 

[Cat_Herder]

If LDS are considered Christians:

Our love for all who confess Christ and our desire for unity compel us to share with them the fullness of revealed truth that God has entrusted to the Catholic Church and to learn from them expressions of the truths of faith that other churches and ecclesial communities share with the Catholic Church.

Otherwise:

People of other non-Christian religions also have the right to hear the Gospel, as missionaries have brought it over the centuries. God’s plan of salvation also includes the Muslims who profess the faith of Abraham and, together with us, adore the one, merciful God. Then there are those who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church but nevertheless seek God with sincere hearts and seek to do God’s will as they know it. Interreligious dialogue presents an opportunity to learn about other religious traditions and to explain our own. Such dialogue, however, must never be a camouflage for proselytizing. Rather, it should be approached with utmost respect and sensitivity. Catholics earnestly share their faith in Jesus Christ, which gives meaning to their lives, praying for that good day, known to God alone, when all peoples will address the Lord in a single voice and serve God with one accord.

 

[Caprica]

If LDS are considered Christians:

Our love for all who confess Christ and our desire for unity compel us to share with them the fullness of revealed truth that God has entrusted to the Catholic Church and to learn from them expressions of the truths of faith that other churches and ecclesial communities share with the Catholic Church.

Otherwise:

People of other non-Christian religions also have the right to hear the Gospel, as missionaries have brought it over the centuries. God’s plan of salvation also includes the Muslims who profess the faith of Abraham and, together with us, adore the one, merciful God. Then there are those who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church but nevertheless seek God with sincere hearts and seek to do God’s will as they know it. Interreligious dialogue presents an opportunity to learn about other religious traditions and to explain our own. Such dialogue, however, must never be a camouflage for proselytizing. Rather, it should be approached with utmost respect and sensitivity. Catholics earnestly share their faith in Jesus Christ, which gives meaning to their lives, praying for that good day, known to God alone, when all peoples will address the Lord in a single voice and serve God with one accord.

The sentence before your bolded part is important, since we need to know what “such dialogue” is referring to.

The article does not state that “All U.S. Catholics are under standing orders not to engage in proselytization”. Instead, it states, that interreligious dialogue ("which presents an opportunity to learn about other religious traditions and to explain [your] own")) should not be a “camouflage for proselytizing”. Interreligious dialogue is dialogue between religions to promote understanding of each other’s faith, and shouldn’t be used as a means to convert each other.

This forum (Non-Catholic Religions) is actually an example of what that article is talking about. This forum is designed to promote dialogue between religions, without proselytizing. The article doesn’t mean that proselytizing is never allowed, which wouldn’t make sense anyway since the article itself is about evangelization.

 

[Cat_Herder]

This forum is designed to promote dialogue between religions, without proselytizing. The article doesn’t mean that proselytizing is never allowed, which wouldn’t make sense anyway since the article itself is about evangelization.

But “evangelization” and “proselytizing” are not the same thing. One involves living out a Christian witness; the other explicitly soliciting conversions, no?

 

[zaffiroborant]

But “evangelization” and “proselytizing” are not the same thing. One involves living out a Christian witness; the other explicitly soliciting conversions, no?

I would say yes evangelizing and proselytizing are not the same thing, proselytizing is simply pushing a person to join a specific church/religion/faith. Evangelizing I find harder to define, while it is living out a Christian witness it does go beyond that, but it shouldn’t cross into the heavy-handed world of proselytizing.