An international gathering of Catholic and Muslim leaders is convening in Berkeley Nov. 6-8, with the theme “Integral Human Development: Growing in Dignity, Catholic and Muslim Perspectives.”
While the first sessions are open only to the forum participants, there is a single public session. At 5 p.m. Nov. 8, the closing session will be open to the public at Zaytuna College, 2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley.
Catholic participants include three representatives from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. They are: Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president; Most Rev. Miguel Ayuso, MCCJ, secretary; and Msgr. Khaled Akasheh, bureau chief for Islam.
Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, of Oakland, is among the religious leaders invited to the Catholic-Muslim Forum. The first forum took place in 2008 at the Vatican.
Full story at Catholic Voice Oakland.
Islam is a false religion and an aggressive, irrational, authoritarian political system that is thoroughly incompatible with Christianity and Western Civilization. If you disagree with that, you don’t understand Islam or Christianity or Western culture. The Catholic eggheads who will participate in the discussions are kidding themselves if they think genuine dialogue with Islam is possible or even desired by Muslims. The Koran instructs Muslims to lie to deceive non-Muslims in order to advance the spread of Islam. Knowing that is enough to be suspicious of any “dialogue”.
Oh, so Saint Francis of Assisi was an egghead?
St. Francis risked his life to CONVERT the sultan from Islam to the One True Faith: Catholicism. Francis was no pansy. His unsuccessful, courageous effort is quite a contrast to the mealy-mouthed discussions that the Catholic eggheads referred to in the article are having with Muslims in an attempt to find common ground. There is no common ground to be had with Islam, as Francis understood. As a result, he implored the sultan and his subjects to convert. The Berkeley gathering is a farce. Francis was the real deal: he didn’t dialogue, he preached the Gospel.
Oh, so YFC is the egghead?
Why? A dog is a dog, and a cat is a cat. The faith of Islam is an abomination. Sure the Zombie Liberal Minions of Francis (a new order, otherwise known as “The Zolimifra”) think that Catholicism means “dialogue.” But is this what Christ said? Didn’t He say something about taking up your cross every day and following His teachings (and not those of a militant child molester)?
Why did we fight Lepanto at all? Fools.
One wonders whether the realities of Sharia Law and the Jizya code will be discussed, or whether it would be ‘intolerant’ to question these inconvenient facts
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Islamic State Warns Christians: Convert, Pay Tax, Leave Or Die
Kelly Phillips Erb , FORBES STAFF
Christians in Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, were sent a message by the Islamic State (IS): convert to Islam, pay the jizya or leave
We offer them three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract – involving payment of Jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword.
Jizya (sometimes written as jizyah and pronounced “jiz-yuh”) is the term for a tax paid by non-Muslims. The tax is the result of a centuries old contract called a dhimma. Under a dhimma,…
The pictured church that is now a mosque used to be University Christian Church, what used to be the official Pacific School of Religion UCC place of worship since 1939 (PSR is a joint divinity school of the UCC, the United Methodists, and the Disciples of Christ, as well as for other smaller Protestant denominations.).
This is disgusting. “. . . Growing in Dignity, Catholic and Muslim Perspectives.” Will they discuss the beheadings, stoning of women, killing homosexuals, and all the other “wonderful” ideals of Islam?
Not to be a smartie pants but…those thinks are in the Bible, too.
Where are the Jews on this Inter-faith confab?
Hey ‘smartie’ – Do you know know the Difference between The Old Testament and The New Testamant?
Not that it would make much difference to the Un-Enightene… Ahem
What is the purpose of this? I cannot see what it accomplishes. Islam is a false religion. The post Vatican II years have brought years and years of “dialogue”, but nothing seems to come out of it. Perhaps if the bishops did as their predecessors and preached the Gospel to all men, then would we see actual fruits of their labor.
This is da’wah, under the guise of interfaith dialogue. Da’wah is the invitation by Muslim imams to non-Muslims to be instructed in Islam (Q’uran, Surah 3, Al-Imran, ayah 110). It is proselytism.
Great that they can proselytize us.
Proselytize is however “solemn nonsense” for Catholics.
Scott Hahn tried to dialog with a Muslim Imam. It was futile since every time Dr. Hahn referred to God as Father the Imam would pound on the table and tell him to stop blaspheming. Finally the Imam got up and left.
Previously, on this website Abeca Christian tried to warn me of that problem when I said the hundredth and unknown name of God (Allah) in the Islamic prayer of the 99 Names of God, should be and was “Father”.
Under the guise of ecumenism, islamic ideals and pracices will be accepted into the V2 Church, but not the other way around. All just like during V2 Council and its aftermath when under the guise of ecumenism 6 non-Catholic ministers helped overhaul the center of Roman Catholicism with heresey and the novos ordo service. So what else is new?