[Brian Kopp DPM]

The Pope is making a distinction between proselytizing and evangelizing. Its a distinction lost on most.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“The Pope is making a distinction between proselytizing and evangelizing. Its a distinction lost on most.”

Would you be so kind as to articulate what your understanding is, of how he sees the difference between the two?

It would appear to the great unwashed masses who only own dictionaries, that the first attempts to convert someone from their current religious belief to a new one. The second attempts to convert someone from their current religious belief to a new one.

What say you, to enlighten FR with the correct definitions, and after that we can discuss if the pope is correct?

[piusv]

No, his response about proselytism was in response to the interviewer mentioning that his friends thought Francis was going to convert him. Francis is equating proselytism with conversion. Conversion is nonsense.

Evangelization *is* something else. Since Vatican II the focus has NOT been on the need to convert others to the Catholic Faith. It's more of a wishy washy, gee, let's have coffee and share our faiths...or better yet, let me participate in your non-Catholic service even though this was condemned for 1960 years.

[Uri’el-2012]

The Pope is making a distinction between proselytizing and evangelizing. Its a distinction lost on most.

He is a Jesuit. No?

This form of parsing is Jesuitical.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach