Religious Bridges

Paul Moses worries about inter-faith ruptures

I think some bridge inspectors should be called in before too much weight is put on these structures of supposed interreligious friendship. In particular, the bridge to Islam has corroded  in the last three years. The chief engineer, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the Vatican’s top expert on Islam, was moved from his key post and dispatched to Egypt. The pope then famously insulted Islam in his Regensburg lecture. And he upset Muslims again by giving such a high profile to the conversion of a Muslim journalist who criticized Islam, baptizing him in St. Peter’s at the Easter Vigil.

In short, much of the good will that John Paul II built up is  being lost. There is reason to be concerned with this new direction.