What do you mean?I am very concerned about the Pope and the push for the Interfaith Movement. Anyone else? Pope John Paul II was a great leader in the Interfailth Movement, too. It disturbs me very much. Anyone else?
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I think you may have misunderstood Pope Benedict’s intentions. I’ve read some of his encyclicals and some of his books. If you read his Truth and Tolerance, you’ll see that he has no such intention. As a matter of fact, he has been warning against this very thing for many years now.Jesus said, “I am the way, the life and the truth. No one goes to the Father except through Me.” We cannot compromise His Word with a one world religion.
From Ignatius, the publisher: *With respect to the difficult subject of things interreligious, Ratzinger strongly supports interreligious dialogue, so long as it isn’t understood as assuming all points of view are and must be, in the end, equally valid. About interreligious prayer—understood as prayer together by Christians and non-Christians, with widely different religious views—he is more skeptical. He distinguishes multireligious prayer, where different religious groups come together but pray separate from one another, and interreligious prayer.
Code:Ratzinger doubts whether reasonable conditions for interreligious prayer can generally be met. Still, he lays out careful criteria for such prayer, which include agreement about the nature of God, and the nature and subject of prayer, as well circumstances that don’t lend themselves to misunderstanding such common prayer as relativism or a denial of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in the Christian faith.*