I show my personal excellent appreciation because of this chance and I also greet all the eminent scholars compiled the
John Paul II, to H. E. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, fantastic Sheikh of al-Azhar, Cairo, March 24, 2000
a€?Thank you for one’s kind terminology. Permit me to carry on with the strategies. God created real people, guy and lady, and presented to them the earth, the planet earth to create. There’s a strict relationship between faiths, spiritual trust and lifestyle. Islam is definitely a religion. Christianity was a religion. Islam has grown to become likewise a culture. Christianity is additionally a culture. It is therefore crucial to meet individuality stage Islamic traditions in Egypt.
a€?I present my favorite close thanks involving this opportunity but greet all other eminent scholars gathered right here. I’m thinking that the future of worldwide is based on the many cultures and also on interreligious conversation. For it can be St. Thomas Aquinas claimed: a€?Genus humanum arte et ratione vivit.a€™ The life span of the human race comprises in attitude and also the future of a persons race comprises in heritage. I treasure your very own school, the largest center of Islamic taste. We appreciate individuals who are creating Islamic taste and I am pleased for what you do to keep up the conversation with Christian heritage. More or less everything we talk about inside the identity of the future of one’s networks, only of your networks within with the states and also the humans represented in Islam as well as in Christianity. Say thanks a ton much.a€?
John Paul II, Homily for 1st Sunday of Lent, March 12, 2000
a€?Let us all eliminate and ask forgiveness! Although we compliment goodness, who with his merciful enjoy possess produced in the chapel an excellent crop of holiness, missionary enthusiasm, total determination to Christ and neighbors, we can’t are not able to recognize the infidelities within the Gospel dedicated by a few of our personal brethren, particularly during second millennium. Continue reading “I show my personal excellent appreciation because of this chance and I also greet all the eminent scholars compiled the”