Posted on 05/19/2016 8:51:42 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
An interfaith group is laying the groundwork for what will likely be the worlds first ever joint house of prayer. The center of worship, which will be called the "House of One," will combine simultaneous Jewish, Muslim, and Christian prayer services. The House of One is planned to be built on the site of Berlins first church, the Petrikirche. One of the organizers of the interfaith group behind the planned church/mosque/synagogue, Rabbi Tovia Ben Chorin, said that the House of One is a reminder that despite the dark history of Berlin in the 20th century it is now a center of tolerance.
"For me as a Jew, this city is the 'city of wounds' and the 'city of miracles.' In this place our systematic extermination was planned. And it is from this city that an answer has emerged," said Ben Chorin. He also suggested that Berlin could become a model for cultural integration and religious tolerance. "[I]t is a multicultural city, the idea will spread to different countries all over the world." Construction of the building is slated to begin next year...
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Why not?
It didn’t stop JP II from doing the same in the Basilica of St Francis in 1986, did it?
>>Moved by the example of Saint Francis and Saint Clare, true disciples of Christ, and newly convinced by the experience of this day we have lived through together, we commit ourselves to re-examine our consciences, to hear its voice more faithfully, to purify our spirits from prejudice, anger, enmity, jealousy and envy. We will seek to be peacemakers in thought and deed, with mind and heart fixed on the unity of the human family. And we call on all our brothers and sisters who hear us to do the same.<<
>> Let me now turn to each of you, representatives of Christian Churches and Ecclesial Communities and World Religions, who have come to Assisi for this day of prayer, fasting and pilgrimage.<<
By the way Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston and the current VP of the USCCB , whored out his Roman Catholic Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, to heretic Methodists so they could pretend to ordain one of their womyn “bishops”.
Have you ever attended the dedication of a new Catholic Church?
Very moving and very definitely Catholic, period.
Have you ever attended the rededication of a Catholic Cathedral that had been defiled by heretics with the permission of an apostate Catholic cardinal?
I haven’t. And I’m still waiting to so.
Sounds like Taize on steroids.
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