John L Allen skriver i NCR
”Pondering Islam and its discontents”
“As fate would have it, I was in Cleveland last night speaking at Notre Dame College’s Abrahamic Center on ”Vatican Interfaith Relations with Islam and Judaism.” I’ll summarize here what I said — not because it offers any magic wand for preventing the kind of bloodshed we saw in Baghdad, but because the tragedy illustrates anew the urgency of deep and creative thinking about Christian/Muslim tensions.
My thesis was the following: The last decade has witnessed a historic shift from Judaism to Islam as the paradigmatic interfaith relationship of the Catholic Church. “
“Catholicism is the only Western form of Christianity with a presence in traditionally Shi’a cultures, such as the Maronite Catholics in Lebanon, Syrian and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq, and Armenian and Chaldean Catholics in Iran. Catholics can engage Shi’ites in a way that Western ambassadors and United Nations officials never can — not only on a political and humanitarian level, but from within shared spiritual and religious commitments.”
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/pondering-islam-and-its-discontents/
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