Rome, Italy, Nov 28, 2008 / 20:14 pm
The president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, said this week that the predominance of religion in today’s world means inter-religious dialogue is at once a grace and a risk, which must be assumed coherently by Christians, without renouncing or covering up their faith in the search for the common good.
During his remarks at the opening of the academic year at the Pontifical Theological Department of Southern Italy in Naples, the cardinal pointed out that “in inter-religious dialogue I take a risk. I accept, obviously, not to renounce my faith, but to allow myself to be questioned by the convictions of others. I accept to take into account arguments different from my own or from those of my community. The idea is to get to know each other, to view another’s religion with kindness and to allow oneself to be enriched by the positive aspects of his religion.”