One of the ladies in my choir lamented Pope Benedict’s election. “I don’t think the Church’s relationship with Muslims will get any better.”
At the time I thought the comment was silly.
And here’s my back-up.
Pope meets German Muslims in push for better ties.
Pope Benedict meets leaders of Germany’s mainly Turkish Moslem community on Saturday to stress the importance he places, like his predecessor, on closer ties with other faiths.
For you black helicopter people, “closer ties” doesn’t mean interfaith services where the Pope rubs shoulders non-catholics. It means the Pope witnesses to the eternal truth of Christianity given to the Catholic Church.