My latest in PJ Media is a VIP article. I am happy to be able to offer you a 5% discount on becoming a VIP member at PJ Media. Just enter the code SPENCER when you sign up here. As I noted here Friday, a big interfaith dialogue session just took place in Bahrain, with Pope Francis, the Grand Imam […]
Pope praises Muslim Council of Elders, claims it is ‘committed to dispelling erroneous interpretations’ of Islam
The naive Francis twice said: “As-salamu alaikum!,” not realizing that in Islamic law, only Muslims may use that greeting, when greeting fellow Muslims. It means “Peace be upon you,” and to unbelievers, a Muslim is supposed to say “Peace be upon those who are rightly guided.” He also said: “I offer you cordial greetings and […]
Interfaith Dialogue: Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Plays the Pope Like a Cheap Fiddle
New in PJ Media: Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, who as grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar is the foremost cleric in Sunni Islam, met up again with his pal Pope Francis in Bahrain on Friday and gave us one of the best episodes yet of their ongoing buddy-movie series. Whenever these two get together, they always serve […]
Grand Imam of al-Azhar to Pope Francis: ‘Islam is a religion of peace and equality’
“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari 4.52.269) “Grand Imam Lectures Francis On ‘True’ Islam,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, November 4, 2022: MANAMA, Bahrain (ChurchMilitant.com) – The grand imam of Al-Azhar offered a robust defense of “true” Islam before Pope Francis at the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue on the first day of the pontiff’s apostolic journey to […]
France: Muslim migrant enters church, begins loudly praying Islamic prayers, priest says he’s mentally ill
The all-purpose excuse for jihad is applied once again to an act of supremacism, intimidation, and appropriation. Translation (thanks to Medforth): @Cnews Yesterday at around 2pm, a man entered the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Mantes la Jolie to loudly conduct Islamic prayers. The parish priest was forced to call the police to remove the man so […]
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Rome and Zion (Part Three)
“Is God acting providentially in the emergence of Israel in 1948? I think so, and I think the Catholic magisterium is pointing toward that answer as well,” wrote in 2019 University of Bristol Catholic theology professor Gavin D’Costa. The views of this adviser to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales indicate the increasingly […]
Rome and Zion (Part Two)
The “State of Israel has every right to exist in safety and prosperity” and an “outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism,” stated Pope Francis on October 28, 2015, at the Vatican to visiting World Jewish Congress leaders. Such remarks reveal an ongoing, historic sea change in Catholic views on Zionism, in […]
Pope Francis: ‘Immigration reveals the beauty of diversity’
The Pope has stated that every Christian is “called to reflect God’s gaze towards our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” except that he does not differentiate among migrants. Is the pope referring also to drug dealers among refugees, criminals, rapists and jihadists? All of them have been found to be among the unvetted hordes […]
Rome and Zion (Part One)
The “Zionist State of Israel represents the apostasy of the Chosen People from fidelity to their one True God,” wrote late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior. Recently republished by Sophia Institute Press, Miceli’s book indicates the long-term struggles the Catholic Church has reconciling with Zionism, as […]