Thus the process of the overturning of the relationship between Revelation and humanity that has marked recent modernity was manifested even in the Catholic Church. Only the human, according to this logic, is universally constituted; while all Revelation can be nothing other than individually given or founded. From this it emerges that the passage, or the return, to a religion can be seen as an undesirable, incomprehensible act, and all the more so when the elites of this religion are trying to emancipate themselves from this individuality...Fortunately, the current terms of Catholic reflection are no longer the ones just described, but trans-religious spirituality and vague philosophical religions still tempt it. And conversion is still not admired, even today. Magdi Cristiano Allam will have the chance to see this for himself: among the intricacies of the splendor of the City of God, he will experience the bitter side of the Catholic "complexio oppositorum."
This is probably the truth, sadly. I read an article by another Muslim convert who lived in the ME and had been forced to wait for 16 years before he could find a priest willing to baptize him - the others told him he really didn't need it, and he should just try to be a "good Muslim."
This is disgraceful and in some ways, I think BXVI's message was as much to this type of Catholic as it was to the Muslims.
Ping to another interesting article on Magdi Cristiano Allam.