[Grem] With Islam,the Vatican's Dialogue Delusion Continues

[Emoke Greschik]

 With Islam, the Vatican’s Dialogue Delusion Continues
<https://onepeterfive.com/author/steveskojec/>
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Asked by a journalist during the in-flight press conference
<http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/full-text-of-pope-francis-in-flight-press-conference-from-rabat?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When%3A2019-04-1+11%3A06%3A01>
home from Morocco about the potential consequences of his visit “for the
future, for world peace, for coexistence in the dialogue between cultures,”
Pope Francis responded:

I will say that now there are flowers, the fruits will come later, but the
flowers are promising. I am happy because in these two journeys I have been
able to talk much about what is in my heart — peace, unity, fraternity.
With Muslim brothers and sisters, we sealed this fraternity in the Abu
Dhabi document, and here in Morocco, with this we have all seen a freedom,
a welcome, all brothers with such great respect, and this beautiful flower
of coexistence, a beautiful flower that is promising to bear fruit.

The “fraternity” that was “sealed” in the Abu Dhabi statement was based, in
part, on the assertion — signed jointly
<https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-02/pope-francis-uae-grand-imam-declaration-of-peace.html>
by the pope and the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad el-Tayeb — that “the
pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and
language are *willed
by God* in His wisdom, through which He created human beings.”

This phrasing, pregnant with the obvious implication that God actually
wanted false religions to arise upon the Earth, leading men astray from the
true path offered only by Christ, raised more than a few eyebrows
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl.-burke-popes-declaration-saying-god-wills-diversity-of-religions-is-not>,
not least of which were perched on the forehead of Bishop Athanasius
Schneider. The outspokenly orthodoxy auxiliary bishop of Astana, Khazakstan
attempted to wrestle a correction
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-schneider-extracts-clarification-on-diversity-of-religions-from-pope-francis-brands-abuse-summit-a-failure>
out of the pope during the ad limina visit of the bishops of his country to
the Holy See last month.

The pope made a concession that Bishop Schneider could say “that the phrase
in question on the diversity of religions means the permissive will of God”
— as though he had intended to say that all these things God positively
willed, except the one he was called out on, and that one the Good Lord
merely put up with, tolerant fellow that He is. Bishop Schneider pressed
the pope to make a correction in an official statement, but he deflected,
and so the good bishop escalated the need for correction in his own recently
published
<https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-athanasisus-schneider-on-the-question-of-a-heretical-pope/>
analysis of how the Church might handle a heretical pope. Of the
problematic phrase in the Abu Dhabi statement, Bishop Schneider wrote,
“This formulation as such needs an official Papal correction, otherwise it
evidently will contradict the First Commandment of the Decalogue and the
unmistakable and explicit teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ, hence
contradicting Divine Revelation.”

The pope, meanwhile, requested
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/pope-asks-universities-to-disseminate-his-claim-diversity-of-religions-is-willed-by-god>
the “widest possible dissemination” of his uncorrected statement at
Catholic universities. Not a public peep about the distinction he granted,
evidently as a manifestation of The Perón Rule
<https://onepeterfive.com/the-peron-rule/>.

The renowned German Catholic philosopher, Professor Josef Seifert, reacted
strongly to the initiative of the pope to distribute the statement, saying
it would be the “unprecedented heresy of all heresies” to “spread this
unaltered declaration” that the diverse religions are willed by God
“without the slightest (and, what is more, unconvincing) declaration that
it is merely about the permissive will of God.”

According to Seifert, a private remark (as given in the presence of Bishop
Schneider) is not sufficient to rescind “the approval of all heresies and
of all those religions which are in contradiction with Christianity as it
is to be found in the Abu Dhabi declaration.”

Seifert said the statement read at face value places the pope “outside the
Church and of the Christian Faith in general, as well as outside of reason.”

For, how could God will contradictions to those most important revealed
truths which are simultaneously also willed by Him? This assumption would
make God either a lunatic who violates the foundation of all reason — the
principle of non-contradiction — and who is a monumental relativist, or a
confused God who is indifferent to the matter of whether people witness to
the truth or not.

But Francis wasn’t finished.

During his visit to Morocco, he is reported
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/31/pope-francis-urges-moroccan-christians-against-converting-others/>
to have said “trying to convert people to one’s own belief ‘always leads to
an impasse,’” followed by another of his appeals not to “proselytize.”

Don’t tell that to the saints who analyzed Islam as “an impious,
blasphemous, vicious cult” and “an invention of the devil” or the many
martyrs — like St. Pelagius of Cordoba
<https://onepeterfive.com/st-pelagius-of-cordoba-a-martyr-for-our-times/> —
who died refusing to submit to its unwholesome demands. They had some potent
thoughts of their own
<https://onepeterfive.com/what-did-the-saints-say-about-islam/> about what
is, at best, as St. John Damascene called the religion of Mohammed, a
“heresy” that constitutes a “forerunner of the Antichrist.”

In other words: Islam is a false ideology and a path to perdition, and the
conversion of its adherents, if we care about their souls, is desirable. It
is certainly desired by God, who created men to know Him, love Him, and
serve Him in this life and be happy with Him forever in Heaven. As my
friend Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute relates
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-warns-moroccan-christians-against-proselytism>,
when St. Francis of Assisi, not having received the memo against
proselytism, attempted to convert the sultan of Egypt, he made the stakes
clear: “If you do not wish to believe we will commend your soul to God
because we declare that if you die while holding to your law you will be
lost; God will not accept your soul. For this reason we have come to you.”

But for Francis, who disparaged
<https://ing.org/pope-francis-a-new-hope-for-muslim-catholic-relations/>
Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg address as destructive, has offered a false
equivalency
<https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/01/488223541/pope-francis-say-it-is-wrong-to-identify-islam-with-violence>
between the known epidemic of Islamic violence and some unspecified
“Catholic violence,” and who encouraged Muslim refugees to look to the
Quran and the “faith that your parents instilled in you” to help them, it
seems that the idea of actually holding a critical thought about Islam —
let alone desiring the conversion of Muslims to Catholicism — is
unthinkable.

This is not what Muslim converts want to hear from their pope.

Last year, a group of Catholics who had converted from Islam — many no
doubt at great personal risk — made an impassioned plea to the pope in the
form of an open letter
<https://onepeterfive.com/islamic-converts-ask-pope-in-open-letter-to-change-his-teaching-on-islam/?fbclid=IwAR0FoWw5kAO3vnURbrqfYeumMldN3VTXCZpKyXic7hPpiBKM83Y54qMHzlY>.
They claimed that many of their number had tried to contact the pope, “on
many occasions and for several years, and we have never received the
slightest acknowledgement of our letters or requests for meetings.”

After making clear with quotes from both Scripture and the Quran that Islam
is “a proper antichrist” and “wants us to be its enemy,” they ask, “the
Pope seems to propose the Quran as a way of salvation, is that not cause
for worry? Should we return to Islam?”

“We beg you,” they continue, “not to seek in Islam an ally in your fight
against the powers that want to dominate and enslave the world, ‬since they
share the same totalitarian logic based on the rejection of the kingship of
Christ (‬Lk ‬4.7).”

They lay bare the scandal of this failure of the Church to recognize what
its overtures to Islam are causing:

The pro-Islam speech of Your Holiness leads us to deplore the fact that
Muslims are not invited to leave Islam, and ‬that many ex-Muslims,
‬such as Magdi
Allam
<http://www.postedeveille.ca/2013/03/pourquoi-je-quitte-leglise-catholique-trop-faible-avec-lislam-magdi-allam.html>,‭
‬are even leaving the Church, ‬disgusted by her cowardice, ‬wounded by
equivocal gestures, ‬confused by the lack of evangelization, ‬scandalized
by the praise given to Islam[.] … ‬Thus ignorant souls are misled, ‬and
Christians are not preparing for a confrontation with Islam, ‬to ‬which St.
‬John Paul II has called them (‬Ecclesia in Europa,‭ ‬No.‭ ‬57
<http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_20030628_ecclesia-in-europa.html>
‭)‬.‭

There is no indication that they ever received a response. But if they can
see the truth of it, we can too, whether the pope cares to acknowledge
reality or continue with his dialogue delusion
<https://onepeterfive.com/the-dialogue-delusion/>.
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Steve Skojec <https://onepeterfive.com/author/steveskojec/>

Steve Skojec is the Founding Publisher and Executive Director of
OnePeterFive.com. He received his BA in Communications and Theology from
Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2001. His commentary has appeared
in *The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington
Times, Crisis Magazine, EWTN, Huffington Post Live, The Fox News Channel,
Foreign Policy,* and the *BBC.* Steve and his wife Jamie have seven
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