Christians of all traditions were likely surprised on Friday when the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message to Muslims for Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting by day and gorging by night. The fact that such a message was sent was not a surprise, as interreligious dialogue has for many years been far more important to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and other Churches than actually spreading the Gospel message. The surprising aspect was that in the message, which was entitled “Christians and Muslims: Promoters of Love and Friendship,” the Vatican asserted that Ramadan is important not just for Muslims, but for Christians as well. Christians, were you aware of this?
The message, which was signed by Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, a Spanish prelate who is the prefect of the Interreligious Dialogue Dicastery, and Msgr. Indunil Kodithuwakku Janakaratne Kankanamalage, a Sri Lankan who is its secretary, is addressed to “Dear Muslim brothers and sisters.” It immediately states, “The month of Ramadan is important for you, but also for your friends, neighbours and fellow believers of other religions, in particular Christians.” Can Cardinal Guixot or Msgr. Kankanamalage give us any examples of Christians who observe Ramadan, or who think it important?
Certainly there are many Christians who believe for various reasons that it is very important to build good relationships with Muslims, but one would be hard-pressed to find any who actually join in the fasting-and-gorging month, just as it would be difficult to find any Muslims who observe the Christian fasting season of Lent. Although there is always some overlap, particularly among people in mixed marriages, it is rare for people of one religious tradition to follow the practices of another. The Vatican is so anxious to reach out in friendship to Muslims that it is massively overstating its case. That’s not to say that most Christians have a negative view of Ramadan. They just aren’t thinking about it at all.
The Vatican message, however, goes on to assert that during Ramadan, “existing friendships are reinforced and others are built, paving the way for more peaceful, harmonious and joyful coexistence. This corresponds to the divine will for our communities, and indeed for all the members and communities of the one human family.” Gee, that’s swell, but even Guixot and Kankanamalage seem to realize that it’s a bit pollyannish, as they go on to assure us that “we are aware, dear friends, that peaceful and friendly coexistence faces many challenges and threats: extremism, radicalism, polemics, disputes, and religiously motivated violence.”
You can say that again. In fact, much of that religiously motivated violence comes from people who are observing the month of Ramadan that the Vatican is busy celebrating. In April 2022, the Palestinian Authority’s Supreme Sharia Judge, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, declared that “Ramadan is not a month of laziness but rather a month of activity, of effort, and of hard work, and as it also was in the life of the Prophet, a month of jihad, conquest, and victory.” The jihad he had in mind was violence against unbelievers, not getting the kids to school on time, as a Muslim cleric in India, Maulana Bashir Ahmad Khaki, made clear in 2018: “Ramadan is the pious month of ‘Jihad-o-Qital’ (Jihad and killing). Those who attain martyrdom while waging Jihad, doors of heaven remain open.” In 2012, a jihad group in Bulgaria explained, “Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators.” Or as the Vatican put it, “The threats are fueled by a culture of hate.”
The Vatican did not, however, explain exactly where that “culture of hate” was coming from. Instead, it pretended that both sides had an equal responsibility to seek peace: “We need, then, to find the most appropriate ways of countering and overcoming such a culture, enhancing instead, enhancing love and friendship, in particular between Muslims and Christians, due to the bonds that unite us.” Terrific. But did Guixot and Kankanamalage ever pause to ponder why such statements always and in every case come from the Christian side of the interreligious dialogue with Muslims, not from the Muslim side? Where are the Muslim leaders exhorting their coreligionists to reach out to Christians and other non-Muslims in friendship, and to reject the understanding of Ramadan that includes violence?
The Vatican’s naïve and willfully ignorant Ramadan message only highlights the fact that in this as in virtually all other cases, the friendly outreach to other religious traditions is decidedly one-sided.
The Vatican is as authentic as this phony Pope they serve Satan not Christ
Quite true. The Vatican is the repository of paedophilia and moral cretinism.
This pope is a demonic spawn of Satan.
And god created fools.
God gave them over to their corrupt minds, he did not create them.
the vatican is in the last legs of a crazy trip; the elevation of guilt to morals superiority. Christianity, Judeo-Christianity has primed society with guilt and self hate, Marxism is its natural continuation now; the active self destruction in the crazed hope of delivering us to the promised land; you can not get more nutty. Islam is basically the same thing but not different from Christianity before the scientific revolution and the attempts to bring direct democracy back from the Greeks, but the attempts failed and representative fake democracy with clay feet is the result.
Creeping Sharia… where satanic islam slowly creeps into a society…
catholicism is satanic… it teaches they worship the fake god allah of satanic islam… a fake god who has no Son’s for Salvation…
How does a catholic get saved then? How does a catholic approach the One True Living God in prayer?
Everything satanic catholicism teaches is satanic… it goes beyond the satanic Poop! The doctrines and traditions of catholicism are satanic!
Denounce the satanic catholic fake church!
The Pope and Biden seem to have more in common every day.
Bergoglio is as much a Catholic as mohammed or Luther. Bergoglio is the scum of the earth.
Bergoglio is as much a Catholic as mohammed or Luther. Bergoglio is evil scum an Apostate and a Heretic. Hell awaits him, he and his ilk will be burning right next to Judas.
In a perverted sort of way, the Pope may be correct. During rama dama dingdong month, the moose lims concentrate more on doing in each other than going after infidels. Dang, make their month longer, coincide with the freak months. What ever it takes.
WHERE do you suppose Pope Frank will be spending his eternity?
Only God knows for sure
Someone should inform Il Papa re the nature of Islam’s Prophet, his behaviour ( he in mid 50’s marries girl of 6 SIX years old, hence Islam permits marriage to girls aged 9, as the Prophet consummated that marriage when Aisha was either 8 or 9 and to kill all infidels if they won’t convert.. Could ALLAH, the Moon god of the Arabs not find someone more suitable?
Proving that no institution is safe from being infiltrated by Leftist’s, Marxist’s, pedophiles and the like. This has happened in academia, Hollywood, Big Tech, social media, etc.
The Catholic Church is not immune from this; nor is any church. This “Pope” is a perfect example as he is acquiescing to Islam.
As a Catholic Ramadan is not important to me. It means nothing. Just as Christian holy days mean nothing to Muslims.
There is no reason a Catholic would think Ramadan has any importance in their life.
There is a saying “If you celebrate everything, you believe in nothing.”
COEXIST is a myth. The camel is already inside the tent.
Coexistence is only possible between groups that accept the existence of each other. Marxism and islam are predicated on the destruction of all other religions and socio-ecomomic systems. That is what makes them existential threats (a term the dems have been throwing around erroneously lately) to all other religions and socioeconomic systems. The same goes for Fatah, hamas, islamic jihad, and hezzbuttlicks, in regard to Israel.
Red Frank continues to push for one world govt, and one world religion (Chrislam).
The Argentinian Apostate used to be subtle, but is becoming bolder and more overt.
This little Marxist is one of the greatest existential threats to the West, to the RCC, to Christianity, and to the survival of the human species that exists today.
In dar al islam, and in some areas of the West, non-muslims who eat in public during the day are berated and sometimes attacked. Wasn’t there a company or government office in the UK recently cancelled an office party, or cancelled food being served at it because of ramadan? Ramadan only matters to me because jihadis like to attack then.
The “Smoke of Satan ” wafts through the Vatican, confusing many clerics. It is so strong around this pope that it may be causing his breathing problems.
——-just sayin’
With Francis at the helm, western civilization is at the precipice of the Apocalypse.
Lead by the current pope, today’s Christians are encouraged to voluntarily feed themselves to the lions.
Brimstone and Fire at the Vatican
600 years before the birth of Mo, Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except thru me.”
Mo’s message of conquest and jihad in the name of Islam basically contradicts the basic tenant of Christ’s teachings. If Christ is the true path to Heaven, …?