{"id":7242,"date":"2008-11-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/22\/pope-says-interfaith-dialogue-is-not-possible\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T12:00:00","slug":"pope-says-interfaith-dialogue-is-not-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/22\/pope-says-interfaith-dialogue-is-not-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Says Interfaith Dialogue Is &#8220;Not Possible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/24\/world\/europe\/24pope.html?hp\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">ROME, ITALY, November 23, 2008: In comments on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI cast doubt on the possibility of interfaith dialogue. In quotations from a letter that appeared on Sunday in Corriere della Sera, Italy&#8217;s leading daily newspaper, the pope said the book &#8220;explained with great clarity&#8221; that &#8220;an inter-religious dialogue in the strict sense of the word is not possible.&#8221; In theological terms, added the pope, &#8220;a true dialogue is not possible without putting one&#8217;s faith in parentheses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pope&#8217;s comments came in a letter he wrote to Marcello Pera, an Italian center-right politician and scholar whose forthcoming book, &#8220;Why We Must Call Ourselves Christian,&#8221; argues that Europe should stay true to its Christian roots. A central theme of Benedict&#8217;s papacy has been to focus attention on the Christian roots of an increasingly secular Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But Benedict added that &#8220;intercultural dialogue which deepens the cultural consequences of basic religious ideas&#8221; was important. He called for confronting &#8220;in a public forum the cultural consequences of basic religious decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the pope&#8217;s comments seemed intended to draw interest to Mr. Pera&#8217;s book, not to cast doubt on the Vatican&#8217;s many continuing interreligious dialogues.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.nytimes.com ROME, ITALY, November 23, 2008: In comments on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI cast doubt on the possibility of interfaith,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}