Thursday, April 13, 2006
Catholic Church Waking Up?
The Roman Catholic Church seems to be slowly awakening to the scent of an ancient enemy: Oriana Fallaci Has Enrolled in the Society of Jesus. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
ROMA, April 10, 2006 – One of the four topics considered by Benedict XVI and the cardinals during their day “of reflection and prayer” at the last consistory, on March 23, was Islam.
Or, more precisely: “the position of the Catholic Church, and of the Holy See, in the face of Islam today.”
The discussion was held in private, but some of the cardinals afterward remarked that much more concern was shown than in the past over the challenge that Islam presents to Christianity and the West, and that there was general agreement with Benedict XVI’s energetic opposition to terrorism and the violation of religious liberty.
One month earlier, on February 20, pope Joseph Ratzinger received Morocco’s new ambassador to the Holy See, Ali Achour, and made a vigorous appeal for the rejection of violence and for full respect for religious liberty, “in a reciprocal manner in all societies.”
And on March 22, on the eve of the consistory, the pope, acting through his secretary of state Angelo Sodano, had sent to the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, an urgent request for the liberation of Abdul Rahman, an Afghan citizen condemned to death for converting to Christianity.
Rahman was in fact freed and transferred to Italy under protective custody. And he has Benedict XVI to thank for that.
But can this more energetic approach to the question of Islam also be found in the analysis the Church makes of the phenomenon?
The answer is yes.
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