Interreligious Dialogue Beneficial Catholic-Muslim dialogue requires a firm grasp of history and the other parties’ language. Participants have a duty to truth, not political correctness, as well as a duty of diligence and conscientious care for their own flock. Moreover, since the discovery of The Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal […]
Vatican buses promote trips to Jerusalem, “Palestine”
“Catholic pilgrims spend virtually all their time visiting holy sites in Palestinian-run territory, staying in Palestinian Arab hotels and listening to Palestinian Arab tour guides. As a result, these pilgrims return filled with hatred towards Israel.” Pope Francis should repudiate these tours, withdraw these bus ads, and apologize. But he is probably too busy participating […]
Catholic Charities helped Ohio State University jihadi resettle in U.S.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for the U.S. to take in 100,000 more Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is, as Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch points out, “NOT advocating to save the persecuted Christians of Syria through this program.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops received $79,590,512 […]
Pope denounces “epidemic of animosity” against Muslim migrants
“We see, for example, how quickly those among us with the status of a stranger, an immigrant, or a refugee, become a threat, take on the status of an enemy. An enemy because they come from a distant country or have different customs. An enemy because of the color of their skin, their language or […]
Catholic charity: “Islamist hyperextremism” could bring world to brink of catastrophe
The Religious Freedom in the World 2016 report, produced by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, says the kind of religiously motivated violence espoused by Islamic State has given rise to attacks in one in five countries worldwide over the past two years. It’s puzzling enough that there are still those who do not […]
Vatican cardinal: Pope Benedict’s Regensburg address was ‘prophetic’
In his 2006 Regensburg address, Pope Benedict cited the 14th-century Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus regarding the preaching of violence in a religion, stating: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he […]
Pope Francis denounces “politics of fear,” says “all walls fall”
The “politics of fear” — here again, the Pope speaks as if fear were something always and in every case to be shunned, despised, and rejected. But is that really the case? The proper response to the jihad threat should not be fear, but determined resolution to stand for freedom; still, is fear really something […]
Pope Francis’ Song and Dance with Islam
Pope Francis recently made some ostensibly refreshing remarks. During an early morning Mass in memory of Fr. Jacques Hamel—the 85-year-old priest who was slaughtered by Muslims while conducting mass in his church in France—Pope Francis said: This cruelty that asks for apostasy, let’s say the word, is satanic… Today in the church there are […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Clinton/Vatican/Tehran Axis
The Obama/Hillary plan to sell the Iran deal through…the Catholic Church. My latest in FrontPage: Breitbart reported Saturday that among the many revealing and damning emails that WikiLeaks has revealed from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, one has “White House chief of staff Denis McDonough responding favorably to an email forwarded to him by Podesta […]
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia: “I admire the integrity” of Muslim women who wear hijab and burqa
It’s a common and recurring tendency among conservative Catholics to be complacent regarding the jihad threat because of a desire to see Muslims as allies in a culture war against all-encroaching and authoritarian secularism. This idea is based on ignorance of or indifference to the fact that, with its polygamy, divorce at a word, sexual […]