A recent Commonweal article by Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ on interreligious dialogue and mean-old-bruske Pope Benedict contained the following:
While few sensible Christians would be so brusque today, the question of the meaning of Islam for Christians is still with us, particularly if (by tradition, habit, or conviction) many Christian leaders avoid speaking of the Qur’an as revelation or of Mohammed as a true prophet.
Now I really don’t have much expectation for much of anything written in Commonweal, but this sentence makes my jaw drop to shoe level. Whattaya know Christian leaders don’t refer to a false prophet and his false revelations as being real – you learn something everyday.
Luckily I don’t have to spend the time to rip up this article because the master Dale Price already took to it. Whoever came up with the pen is mightier than the sword had Dale in mind. The rest of the article is also pretty mind-numbing.
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Give them a break, it’s not like they drown their kids in a bathtub in order to send them to heaven.
Speaking of which, http://religiousfreaks.com/2007/01/17/off-to-heaven-you-go-kids/
And that is why Benedict is the Pope and Clooney is not. Deo Gratia
I always wonder what St. Ignatious Loyola thinks of stunts like this by members of his organization.
OMG! I’m currently a student at Harvard Divinity where Fr. Clooney was my advisor last year (he’s on sabbatical this year)…I’d guess he’s in his 50’s, maybe 60’s? He got his BA in ’73 if that helps.
I took his class on ‘Intro to Comparative Religions’ last fall and he and I had a serious difference of opinion centered around my belief that from a Catholic/Christian perspective evangelization is the ultimate and only goal of interreligious dialogue.
Anyway, this seems like pretty Clooneyesque to me…and that is too bad.
for futher info here is his faculty bio: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/facul…ty/ clooney.html
and his personal website: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/ic…o? keyword=k5866
Scott
“Harvard Divinity is a moral cesspool, and I unlike most people am aware of this fact!”
Only 4 months and 19 days to go!
Just one question out of many possible questions: was Jesus overly “brusque” when He said “Do not babble like the pagans..?” Obviously, there is a time to be “brusque” else we come perilously close to perverting the truth. I think it is no accident that we have been given a pope whose mind is particularly sharp.