Catholics Question Pope’s Interfaith Day of Prayer
Catholics Question Pope’s Interfaith Day of Prayer
Catholics are starting to question Pope Benedict’s Day of Interfaith prayer as religious leaders of world religions meet to pray as one in Assisi in October.
The meeting is to mark the 25th anniversary of interfaith prayer first celebrated by Pope John Paul II’s World Day of Peace in Assisi in 1986 and again in 2002.
Among the religious leaders gathered were: spiritualists, animists, witch doctors, Hindus, Buddhists, protestants and numerous other faiths. Buddhists put a statue of Buddha on the alter to be worshiped during the service.
Everyone was encouraged to pray to their god for the sake of world peace. Pope Benedict will join leaders to revive the “spirit of Assisi”.
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Nine Catholics in Italy made a public plea in the II Foglio newspaper on January 11th, urging the Pope to cancel the up coming service.
They stated Catholics would be confused and think that a separation of beliefs is not important.
They claimed people would believe that they were all worshiping the same ‘god’. They stated that the interfaith meeting would deem Catholic rituals as empty human gestures.
One of the nine, Francesco Agnoli said, “Blessed be medieval times, when you could argue among Catholics, in fidelity to Christ and the Church.”
Source: CNA
My comment:
I left the Catholic Church about a year ago. Part of the reason for my exodus was after I witnessed the disgusting spiritual fornication during the 1986 interfaith meeting.
I never knew about it until last year. when I saw Buddha put on the altar to be worshiped in the church, I looked for the red blinking exit door. I could not believe what I saw as I watched the clip.
When I read in the Catholic Catechism that Muslims and Catholics worship the same God and that Muslims are saved, I could not remain a Catholic:
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”[330]
I was not just a run-of-the-mill-Catholic. I was educated in Catholic grade schools, I went to a well known Catholic college that boasts apolegetics. I was a do-whatever-the-pope-says Catholic. For me to leave as well as my husband is nothing short of pure grace. We started reading the scriptures and devoured the pages like a person starving for food.
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After I left the Roman Church, it was hard to detach. I was taught if I missed Mass I was in mortal sin and could go to hell.
The same with eating meat on Friday during lent. I was in spiritual bondage to the doctrines of demons. I prayed to be set free.
The scriptures were a lamp unto my feet, and I embraced their promises.
To those Catholics who are reading this article I say, come out of her my people! Let the truth set you free.
Revelation 18:4,5
“And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities’”
(end of scripture)
Many Catholics will be led into the one world religion as the Pope gathers the world faiths together, with himself as the head. As the new world order starts to solidify, a one world religion will be needed in order for world government to work. The Vatican is surely riding the beast of world government to achieve world domination through religion.
As the emerging church is taking over churches instead of true biblical Christianity, the spirit of the Antichrist is taking hold.
Do not be fooled into the lies of “peace” and “brotherhood.” We will have no peace until King Jesus returns. Call on the Name of the Lord and He will deliver you. Come out of Catholicism and trust in Christ alone to be saved. Mary won’t save you, indulgences won’t save you.
Trust on Him, who freely gave Himself up on the cross to suffer for your sins as the perfect atonement. Dear Catholics, come out of her and be set free.
Written by Sue
http://sueliz1.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/vatican-the-un-can-head-up-world-government/
keep me in prayer. Being baptized in 4 hours!
This is very exciting!
At Assisi Interfaith Summit 2011, Prayer Is Optional
By Francis X. Rocca
Religion News Service
ASSISI, Italy (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI hosted some 300 representatives of world religions here on Thursday (Oct. 27) for an interfaith summit on justice and peace, with distinct changes made to the event first convened 25 years ago by Pope John Paul II.
Benedict, who had been critical of John Paul’s 1986 event, welcomed a small group of agnostics and, in a bid to avoid the impression that all religions are identical, made prayer private and optional.
Benedict traveled the 100 miles from Rome by train, bringing with him delegates representing faiths from Anglicanism to Zoroastrianism.
There were reminders of the color and variety that distinguished the 1986 landmark gathering. Bald Buddhist monks in saffron robes mingled with turbaned Sikhs and Orthodox prelates in black veils. Wande Abimbola, a Nigerian scholar representing indigenous African religions, invoked the Yoruba deity Olokun and chanted to the accompaniment of a rattle.
But the ceremonies were far more generic than at the 1986 event, whose photogenic highlights included Zoroastrians tending a sacred fire and an American Indian medicine man in traditional headdress smoking a peace pipe.
At a morning ceremony in Assisi’s Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, 11 of the visiting leaders joined the pope in giving short speeches calling for peace among nations and religions, as well as an end to poverty and environmental pollution.
The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, warned of the threat to peace posed by widespread youth unemployment. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians, lamented the “increased marginalization of Christian communities in the Middle East.”
Archbishop Norvan Zakarian, primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church in France, denounced the “gravest of all crimes, genocide,” though he did not specifically mention the killing of more than 1 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks following World War I.
For his part, Benedict denounced terrorism in the name of God, which he called the “antithesis of religion,” as well as a more “complex type of violence” rooted in the “denial of God,” exemplified by hedonism that leads to drug abuse.
Unlike the 1986 event, this year’s format did not provide for public prayer. Following a “frugal lunch” whose menu varied to meet the dietary requirements of all the religions represented, participants repaired to private rooms in a guesthouse adjacent to the basilica’s convent for about two hours of “reflection and/or personal prayer.”
The change reflected Benedict’s personal concerns; as the head of John Paul’s doctrinal office, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger publicly criticized the “multireligious prayer” featured at the 1986 gathering, arguing that it had been misunderstood to mean that different religions teach the same basic truth with different language and symbols.
In the run-up to Thursday’s event, Vatican officials emphasized their determination to avoid any implications of syncretism, or the fusion of religions.
The optional nature of prayer also reflected the novel presence of several nonbelievers, including the Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, who told the gathering that John Paul’s famous call to “Be not afraid!” should also extend to her fellow humanists and feminists.
Benedict, who distinguished agnostics from “militant atheists (with their) false certainty … that there is no God,” expressed sympathy to agnostics, whom he called “seekers” whose “inability to find God is partly the responsibility of believers with a limited or even falsified image of God.”
Later, participants sat in the square outside the Basilica of St. Francis, where they received burning oil lamps symbolic of their pledge to peace. They then stepped inside for a brief visit to the tomb of the 13th-century saint.
One thing that remained unchanged from 1986 was the criticism the event drew from Catholicultra-traditionalists. The late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the schismatic Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), cited the original Assisi gathering as a major factor in his decision to break with Rome in 1988.
Even as his followers consider a Vatican overture to end more than two decades of schism, SSPX leaders had already called this year’s gathering a “dreadful blasphemy” and “scandal for all on earth,” and instructed followers to offer “prayers of reparation” for it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/assisi-interfaith-summit-2011_n_1062649.html
Hello Dawn,
Listening to this tonight–thought it was most appropriate for this evening.
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=111702165824
Hi there Diane. I’m gonna listen to it now while I’m in the waiting room. Husband is getting a knee replacement as we speak…
Nevermind…I think I might have that one memorized. It’s one of my favorites.
Well- you all will be in my prayers for a quick recovery. Let me know how he is doing when you get a minute. Lord bless Dawn.:-)
Howdy Diane…he’s out of surgery and alive…so I’m very pleased. Keep the prayers coming for a speedy recovery!
The Papacy is the Antichrist
http://dawnmarie4.wordpress.com/the-papacy-is-the-antichrist-j-a-wylie/
This is just the link to the 3 part series that Diane has referenced above with Part 2.
I will sister and glad he made it with flying colors…tell him to obey those nurses!! LOLOLOL