My latest at PJ Media: The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue on Friday informed its “dear Muslim brothers and sisters” that the month of Ramadan is “a time for spiritual healing and growth, of sharing with the poor, of strengthening bonds with relatives and friends,” as well as an opportunity for “your Christian friends” […]
Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue urges Catholics to participate in Ramadan iftars
More dialogue follies. I explain why this is so foolish and wrongheaded below. “Vatican Urges Catholics to Share Ramadan,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, May 2, 2020: VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is encouraging Christians to join in the Islamic iftar ‘ritual’ meal on the occasion of the Muslim festival of Ramadan. […]
Vatican extends “hearty congratulations” to all Muslims for a “fruitful month of Ramadan”
“The Vatican’s office for interreligious dialogue released a message to the world’s Muslims Friday, extending fervent best wishes for a ‘fruitful month of Ramadan.’” Fervent is the key word here. A simple well wishing to Muslims, since there are those Muslims who choose not to follow the call to violent jihad, would have sufficed. There […]
Pope calls for sanctions relief for the Islamic Republic of Iran after receiving a request from an ayatollah
The Pope has decided to do Iran’s bidding, after Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad “wrote to Pope Francis in mid-March appealing to him help end U.S. sanctions on Iran.” In response, “Pope Francis called for relaxed international sanctions during his Easter message.” Yet more money flowing into Iran means more murder, more threats to the region, […]
Ireland: Catholic priest invites Muslims to Mass, Muslim proclaims supremacy of Islam from pulpit
Father Stephen Farragher is no doubt a loyal follower of Pope Francis, who has made the risible claim that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” Although this is not and could not ever be a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, it is assumed to […]
Does the Catholic Church Really Have An ‘Islamophobia’ Problem?
My latest at PJ Media: Out of India this week comes the harrowing story of T.J. Joseph, a professor at a Catholic college and member of the Syro Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with Rome. Ten years ago, Joseph was accused of blasphemy, whereupon a Muslim group attacked him and severed his […]
Catholic who proclaims “I’m Christian and I LOVE the Qur’an” says Catholics have “Islamophobia problem”
The real problem the Catholic Church has is not the spurious neologism “Islamophobia,” but a fantasy-based Islamophilia that denies obvious reality and is ruthlessly enforced, as the case of T.J. Joseph demonstrates. Jordan Denari Duffner of Georgetown University’s Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative is either spectacularly naive or outrageously deceptive or both; in all her writings, including […]
India: Catholic Church excommunicates, fires prof after Muslims accuse him of blasphemy and sever his hand
The Syro Malabar Church is one of the Eastern Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome, and its identity as a Catholic Church makes its revolting actions in this incident understandable. Pope Francis has claimed risibly that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” This […]
Indonesia: Religious Affairs Ministry appoints Muslim acting head of Catholic Community Guidance Directorate General
The Religious Affairs Ministry has now apologized for this, but given the Pope of Rome’s positions on Islam, how did any of the Catholics notice? Or if they did notice, why did they think anything was amiss? After all, in September 2017, Pope Francis met in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, […]
Belgium: Two Catholic universities to offer programs to train Muslim imams
How broadminded! How generous! The idea here is to introduce some quality control in the training of imams: to make sure that they learn about Belgian values, and that they aren’t taught that jihad warfare against unbelievers and the subjugation of those unbelievers under Islamic law is something they should pursue. But that imperative is […]