Meeting with Muslim leaders
The Vatican Information Service put out this simple, brief statement:
At midday today, the Holy See Press Office made it known that in Castelgandolfo at 11.45 a.m. on Monday, September 25, the Holy Father will receive Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, and certain representatives of Muslim communities in Italy. Ambassadors to the Holy See from countries with Muslim majorities have also been invited to the meeting.
How good to see the reasonable Muslims accept the Pope’s invitation — issued in that address at Regensburg — to join a dialogue.
That’s not the only place where dialogue is breaking out now. Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles called for a similar meeting.
At a meeting Thursday in Mahony’s office at the Archdiocesan Catholic Center in Los Angeles, the cardinal and Muslim leaders agreed to create more opportunities locally to educate Catholics and Muslims about one another.
Why did it take violence to get to dialogue?
