“Pope” Francis: ‘Dialogue means Renouncing the Claim that our Ideas and Traditions Alone are Valid or Absolute’
When someone like Jorge Bergoglio presumes to instruct others on how and what to communicate, it is a given that disaster will result.
And so it has. On Jan. 23, 2014, “Pope” Francis issued his annual Message for World Communications Day. Of course, he was promoting his essentially meaningless but feel-good pet theme of a “culture of encounter”, but the penultimate paragraph in his document was rather meaningful indeed:
Effective Christian witness is not about bombarding people with religious messages, but about our willingness to be available to others “by patiently and respectfully engaging their questions and their doubts as they advance in their search for the truth and the meaning of human existence” (BENEDICT XVI, Message for the 47th World Communications Day, 2013).
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Consider it the fifth interview…
Italian Journal Publishes Conversation with “Pope” Francis on Religious Life
Today, January 3, 2014, the Italian journal La Civilta Cattolica published an article by Francis’ fellow-Jesuit laymanAntonio Spadaro, which consists mostly of the conversation Francis had with Superiors General of various religious orders on November 29, 2013 in Rome, and which Spadaro took notes of. The text, which La Civilta Cattolica refers to as an “interview” (intervista), is only available as a PDF file; click below to download and read it:
“WAKE UP THE WORLD!” –
FRANCIS’ DIALOGUE WITH RELIGIOUS
(Jan. 2014)
PDF Download – Click Here
The text of this article is also available in the original Italian (click) and Spanish (click), likewise in PDF.