Last paragraph:
**As for the conversation about Islam’s future that Benedict XVI proposed, well, it now seems rather unlikely. But if it’s to take place, Christian leaders must prepare the way by naming, forthrightly, the pathologies of Islamism and jihadism; by ending their ahistorical apologies for 20th-century colonialism (lamely imitating the worst of western academic blather about the Arab Islamic world); and by stating publicly that, when confronted by bloody-minded fanatics like those responsible for the reign of terror that has beset Syria and Iraq this summer, armed force, deployed prudently and purposefully by those with the will and the means to defend innocents, is morally justified.**
Will we answer this challenge?
Will we answer this challenge?
There is little sign that, outside the Catholic Church we will. I’ve never read such drivel that daily come out of most Protestant churches.
When I called out the current Pope’s seemingly non-involvement from the beginning of the beheadings of Syrian priests , persecution of Christians and Yazidis I was told “go contribute to Peter’s Pence”.
Peter’s Pence? I know what that is ! but there was NOTHING!
NOTHING! no statements from the Vatican on how to secure those being persecuted in the Middle East- the cradle of Christianity, the Chaldeans, the Syrians, etc., and the Yazidis (being a ethnic religious minority).
You did not hear one word until the massacre’s on Mt.Sinjar were completed by those ISIS thugs taking people into human bondage.