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January 27, 2006
Vatican City: Vatican Exploring Whether to Include Muslims in Christian-Jewish Dialogue
For God's sake, no! That's worse than inaction; you will assume the "dialogue" will be conducted in good faith, when instead it will be a house of haunted mirrors, where you can only hurt yourself: Vatican May Reach Out to Other Religions
The Vatican is exploring whether to expand its Catholic-Jewish dialogue to include Muslims, although talks are at a very initial stage, a Vatican official said Friday.Monsignor Michael Fitzgerald, who heads the Vatican's office for interreligious dialogue, made the comments after the World Jewish Congress said its chairman, Rabbi Israel Singer, had discussed the initiative with Fitzgerald and other high-ranking Vatican officials during a visit to Rome.
The main point of the talks was to intensify the Vatican's official dialogue with Jews, but they also included "specific possibilities to expand interfaith talks to also include representatives from the Islamic faith," the WJC said in a statement.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at January 27, 2006 6:28 PM
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