Last week, Pope Francis visited Indonesia, home to the world’s largest community of Muslim faithful. There, the Istiqlal Mosque is connected by a tunnel to the Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption – a marvelously apt metaphor for the respect shown to Christians by the Prophet Muhammad in his covenants and the respect for Muslims shown by Pope Francis in the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” and his encyclical, Fratelli Tutti.
I attach here a copy of the Pope’s remarks on his visit to the Mosque and the Cathedral.
At this time of war in Gaza and Ukraine and with dark clouds of aggrandizement gathering over the South China Sea, may we all learn to open our hearts and minds to others, as the Pope and the Prophet have requested of us.