08-19-2010
Mary in Judaism, Islam and Other Religions
Mary is known by the Jews as Daughter of Zion, and for the Muslims she is the Mother of the Messiah. The Blessed Mother is seen as a sublime and admirable figure before whom the faithful from diverse religions, men and women of good will, choose to ...
04-22-2010
The Victory of the Holy Name of Mary in Vienna (1683)
The Catholic Church celebrates the Holy Name of Mary on September 12. We owe this feast to a Polish king.
The Roman martyrology of the year 2000 reinstated the feast of the Holy Name of Mary on that date. This feast was dear to Pope John Paul II ...
01-31-2010
Christian de Chergé, Martyr of Our Lady of the Atlas (1937-1996)
During the night of March 26, 1996, seven Trappist monks of Our Lady of the Atlas, in Tibhirine, Algeria, were kidnapped. On May 23, a communiqué from the Armed Islamic Groups announced that they had been killed under atrocious conditions: the monk' ...
01-31-2010
Do Muslims Believe that Mary Can Intercede for Men?
The Qur’an speaks of Mary in respectful, even admiring terms, and frequently invites the faithful to “remember her”: yes, “mention Mary” (Qur'an 19: 76). The common sight of Muslim men and women in Marian shrines invites one to ponder: Doe ...
11-11-2009
Who Crucified Jesus Christ?
Conscious that our sins strike Christ Himself, the Church does not hesitate to impute to the Christians the gravest responsibility in the torture of Jesus, a responsibility they have too often heaped on the Jews :
"In this guilt are involved a ...
10-11-2009
The Jewish Religion from a Christian Standpoint
Christians' elder brothers - the Jews:
"The Church of Christ discovers her tie with Judaism "while scrutinizing her own mystery" (cf. Nostra Aetate, § 4, from Second Vatican Council).
"The Jewish religion is not extrinsic, bu ...
10-05-2009
Mary and Buddhism
Buddhism, strictly speaking, does not evoke God, and therefore understandably has no reason to include a figure such as the Blessed Virgin Mary in the picture of salvation.
As goes an ancient Sutra (sacred Buddhist text): “Like a mother loves ...
10-05-2009
Mary and Hinduism
Since ancient times, goddesses have been both well known and revered in India. Thousands of images of women that were found in the North-West of India in the ruins of the Indus Valley civilization (around 2500-1500 B.C.) show that goddesses played an ...
09-09-2008
Lourdes, 1,000 Years Before Bernadette
In 778, Charlemagne, who was successfully fighting against the Moors in the south of France, was stopped by a fortress defended by Mirat and his troops, who had sworn never to surrender to anyone.
After several months of siege, Charlemagn ...
07-15-2008
The Dialogue Between Christians and Muslims
Christianity and Islam have this common similarity: they are two fundamentally missionary religions. This is why the Islamic-Christian dialogue is particularly difficult.
Dialogue is impossible without respect and charity for others
Dialogue is no ...
06-13-2008
Is Mary Prefigured in Ancient Egypt?
“The Child Jesus remained in Egypt until Herod's death. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: I called my son out of Egypt.”
(Mt 2: 15)
These words are innocuous in appearance. However they have deep spiritual meanin ...
05-29-2008
The Jewish Religion According to the Second Vatican Council
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it recalls the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock.
Thus the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to God's plan of salvation, t ...
05-13-2008
Mary and Islam
Mary is known and respected - she is even prayed to at times - in Islam.
Mary is well-known in Islam because she is mentioned on several occasions in the Holy Qur'an, and in particular in the Sourate 19,&nbs ...
04-09-2008
Mary Seen Through the Eyes of a Jew
The Jewish theologian Ben-Chorin sees the Virgin Mary in a different way than Catholics. A poet, a writer and a Jewish theologian, Schalom Ben-Chorin was born in Munich in 1913 and died in Jerusalem in 1999. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1935 to esca ...
04-08-2008
The Path to Dialogue
In the “Declaration on the Church and Judaism”, the bishops of the German Federal Republic began by stating: “Whoever meets Jesus Christ meets Judaism.”
I would like to make this statement mine too
The depth and abundance of our common ...
04-07-2008
The Convergences
The main convergences:
Total agreement on the revelation of God up until the birth of JesusPartial agreement on the expectation of the Messiah: Are we waiting for His return or His coming ...
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04-07-2008
The Major Disagreements
The important issues coming between Judaism and Christianity are:
Is Jesus the Messiah of the Jews? Is modern Judaism the same as before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.?
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03-08-2008
Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions
In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely the relationship to non-Christian religions.
In her task of promoting unity and lo ...
11-27-2006
Mary in the Holy Qur'an
What does the Holy Qur'an say about Mary and Jesus? (1)
And mention Marium in the Book when she drew aside from her family to an eastern place;
So she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our spirit, and there appeared t ...
12-07-2005
Mary and Other Religions
The maternal and sympathizing figure of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is so close to the human heart - of any human heart - whatever its culture, its time, its religion that the Blessed Virgin is loved and venerated beyond the Christia ...
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