(photo of Benedict praying at a mosque on 11/30/06)
Posted on 05/09/2009 4:08:27 PM PDT by americanophile
AMMAN, Jordan, May 9 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI prayed Saturday at the King Hussein Mosque in the Jordanian capital Amman, Vatican officials said.
The trip to the mosque, the largest in Jordan, marked the second day of the pope's visit to the Middle East, the BBC reported.
Afterwards, Benedict addressed local Muslim leaders, observers said. Earlier in the day he visited Mount Nebo, which, according to the Bible, is where Moses saw the Promised Land before he died.
Vatican analysts said the pope is anxious to mend relations with Muslims and Jews on his eight-day sojourn to Israel and the West Bank, his first to the region as pontiff.
On Sunday, he is scheduled to celebrate an open-air mass at Wadi Kharrar on the east bank of the River Jordan -- the place where Christians believe Jesus was baptized. The next day, Benedict will go to Tel Aviv to begin four days in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, the BBC reported.
Uh, do you suppose he heard the “prayers” of the 19 flying the planes into the buildings?
Wrong, officer. I read and posted a news story from a well-known news source. I did run with anything. They reported him as praying there. Yes, I relied on their story, since I wasn’t there. Yes, it turned out to be incorrect according to the Vatican. The story you posted published after the one I posted, so I consider the Vatican spokesman’s purposeful mention that the Pope didn’t pray there as a correction of an existing impression held by at least one significant news source.
Is God all-knowing? If so, then he heard the “prayers” but did not answer them. Just as he heard the “prayers” of the Jews worshiping the golden calf.
The question at hand is not can an omnipotent God have heard a prayer, but rather who were they praying to?
What/Who do you pray to, when asking for success in terror, and suicide?
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you asked if God heard their prayers.
Whatever the hijackers were praying to, I doubt those not present (like other hijackers or hostages) heard. But I do not doubt that God heard them!
From your article:
“AMMAN, Jordan, May 9 (UPI) —
“Pope Benedict XVI prayed Saturday at the King Hussein Mosque in the Jordanian capital Amman, Vatican officials said.”
Now here’s the true report from the same Vatican spokesman - he obviously got the question - did the Pope pray in the mosque:
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters in Amman, “It would not be precise to say the pope prayed in the mosque (today), but it would be right to say he paused in respectful meditation in a place where numerous people also pray and meditate before God.”
From OPUSFR link: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0902139.htm
All the other news outlets heard the Vatican spokesman correctly but for your UPI article. How come one might wonder. A good headline with which to beat the Pope and his flock?
No problem americanophile. I’ve been caught in the same trap myself a few times. The upside is that the UPI has egg on their face, not that they or any of them, care anymore.
Sorry, I just realized I gave you a new name by calling you OPUSFR.
“Does that make me wrong when I pray when I am in a Buddhist temple, here in Shanghai?
Does that make me wrong when I prayed at my Jewish friend’s wedding at his synagogue?”
No, God is everywhere, not just in a church. I am Roman Catholic and I have prayed in Protestant churches. If I was in a synagogue, I would pray there as well.
I'll bet you're afraid of a lot of things.
There is no reason nor sense in any worship of a Catholic in a mosque . . .
He did not worship there.
They are entitled to make up whatever they want.
Is that an order?
I'm quite certain the Pope prays in his airplane too. Do you think that means he worships Boeing?
If Boeing were a religion and a plane a house of worship, you might have a point...but they’re not, and you don’t.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the pope did not pray during his visit to the mosque but did stop in a "respectful moment of reflection." He was not asked to take his shoes off when he entered the mosque, which is customary for Muslims, said Lombardi.
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Benedict venerating the Jewish sacred books During his visit to the New York synagogue, for a few instants the blue curtain on the front wall was open to display the sacred books and relics of Judaism to Benedict XVI. In this rare photo, one can observe the reverential position of the Pope paying his respects to those books. Among them are included the scrolls of Torah and commentaries on it made by rabbis. The ensemble of such commentaries by the famous rabbis is the Talmud. As it is known, the Talmud depicts Our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Lady in the most offensive manner possible. So, similar to John Paul II kissing the Koran, here we see Benedict XVI venerating the ensemble of Jewish books.
We can stand on our head but so long as it’s a negative about the Catholic Church some will run with it in order to whip us. They’re perfectly aligned with the leftie media and other statists in that regard. Sad, because if the Catholic Church is ever extinguished, all other Christian denominations will fold, and it’s turn out the lights time.
We need to support each other especially in these times.
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