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Vatican City:
Pope Francis has promised to continue the Catholic Church’s
“fraternal” dialogue with Jews and work with Muslims for the
common good.
Francis met yesterday with religious
representatives from a dozen faiths and traditions who attended
his installation mass a day earlier.
The bulk of his comments were directed at Christian groups,
particularly the Orthodox who were represented among others by
Bartholomew I, the first ecumenical patriarch to attend the
installation since the Catholic and Orthodox church split nearly
1,000 years ago.
Directing himself to the half-dozen
rabbis attending, Francis promised to continue the “useful
brotherly dialogue” that has been under way since the Second
Vatican Council. He singled out Muslims in his comments, saying he
wanted to “grow in esteemed respect” and work for the common good.
The Roman Catholic Church would “promote friendship and respect
between men and women of different religions,” the pope said, a
day after his formal inauguration in St. Peter’s Square.
“We can do a lot for the good of
people who are poor, who are weak, who suffer... and to promote
reconciliation and peace,” the pope told them.
Latin America’s first pontiff said they should be united against
“one of the most dangerous pitfalls of our time — reducing human
beings to what they produce and what they consume.”
The pope also said he felt “close”
to those people who “do not recognize themselves in any faith but
are in a search for truth, for goodness and for beauty.”
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