Vatican Warns Catholics Against Marrying Muslims ("Put Down the Burqa and Back Away SLOWLY...!")

Reuters ^ | 5/14/04 | Shasta Darlington

[Argus]

This issue arose last month when Muslims in Spain asked to be able to pray in Cordoba cathedral, which was once a mosque

It was a cathedral before it was a mosque. The Muslims would like to make it a mosque again, just as they'd like to turn all Spain back into al-Andalus.

[B Knotts]

The Vatican's top theologian, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, said earlier this week the West "no longer loves itself" and so was unable to respond to the challenge of Islam, which was growing because it expressed "greater spiritual energy."

The Novus Ordo Missae, Mass in the vernacular, greater laity participation, etc., were supposed to bring about greater "spritual energy." The opposite has been the result.

[BlackElk]

I can't begin to tell you how absolutely reassuring it is to know how very much you despise the Roman Catholic Church that I belong to: the one and only Church (for complicated reasons it includes Eastern Orthodoxy for this purpose) founded by Jesus Christ Himself and guaranteed by him until the end of time.

I am sorry that you cannot see beyond YOPIOS but you are wasting your time if you think you are convincing any adequately catechized Catholics.

[Imal]

The comments in a document about migrants around the world were preceded by remarks about points of agreement between Christians and Muslims but they seemed likely to fuel mistrust between the world's two largest religions.

Muslims to Catholics: "Don't MAKE me come over there!"

[cgk]

Finally something I can agree with the Vatican on.

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EXACTLY my response.

[onyx]

Church advises women to "think hard"
before marrying a Muslim...
DUH.

[cgk]

When a Catholic woman and Muslim man wanted to marry, it said, "bitter experience teaches us that a particularly careful and in-depth preparation is called for."

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I'm surprised I read the whole thread and there was no mention of Sarah Saga. She is a real-life "poster child" for "bitter experience" they're talking about if ever there was one.

[onyx]

This warning, on the other hand, is what Catholics need to hear.



I can remember being told
to "think" before marrying
a Baptist or any other Protestant.

[WKB]

I can remember being told
to "think" before marrying
a Baptist or any other Protestant.




Ya'll would be a lot better off if more of you had married
Baptist. :>)

[onyx]

Ya'll would be a lot better off if more of you had married
Baptist. :>)




LOL!
And vice versa?

[mtbopfuyn]

Same church, same statement except it referred to Jews when I was in Catholic High School.

When I was in jr. high, we got blasted by the priest because we dared to go on a hay ride with a friend at her Baptist church gathering. However, I can see because of all the children being kidnapped over there that everyone, Christian and Jew alike, should run away very quickly from the religion of peace.

[Ronin]

Seems like a step in the right direction. A small step, but a step none-the-less.

Recent proclamations from the Vatican has me wondering what side those guys are on.

[AFPhys]

tenets of Islam? Children are automatically Muslim by virtue of birth to a Muslim.

I hope they revise this otherwise excellent statement to reflect and inform Catholics of what you state in this post.

[gilliam]

Children are automatically Muslim by virtue of birth to a Muslim. Catholicism is out of the question.

That is correct, and converts to Christianity are considered heretics (even if they are very young). It is justified (required?) to kill heretics in Islam.

[Cap'n Crunch]

BlackElk! Nice to see you. It's been a long time. Hope all is well.

[US admirer]

"Vatican Warns Catholics Against Marrying Muslims"... and the award for stating the obvious goes to the Holy See.

Well No Sh*t Sherlock. For the sake of completeness they should have added "... or anyone else for that matter" after the reference to Catholics.

[lgjhn]

"It puts muslim men in a very bad and accurate light..."

I assume you used the word "men" loosely. There is no such thing as a muslim "man", they're all cowards and some form of sub-human vermin. To use the word "muslim" and and any resemblance of a "man" in the same sentence is so contradictory.

[George from New England]

It's the 60% of Catholics that voted in 2000 for Al Gore, that worry me. They are the ones refernced herein.

[No Blue States]

You are absolutely right, I stand humbly corrected.

[nmh]

If that was true, you wouldn't be what you claim to be.