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Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Benedict discusses Islam relations with Anglican head
2008-05-05
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury discussed Christian-Muslim relations on Monday in their first meeting since the Anglican leader caused a storm in Britain with comments on Sharia law.

A Vatican spokesman said Rowan Williams and the pope spoke privately for about 20 minutes and discussed Christian-Muslim relations, inter-faith dialogue and the pope's impression of his visit to the United States last month. He described the visit, the second official meeting between the Pope and the spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, as "warm and friendly."

In March Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican's top man for relations with Islam, criticized Williams as mistaken and "naive" for suggesting that it was unavoidable that some aspects of Sharia, Islamic law, would be adopted in Britain.

Williams's remarks, in a speech in February, sparked a storm in Britain and beyond and became part of a broader debate on how to integrate Britain's 1.8 million Muslims. He is in Rome for the 7th Building Bridges Seminar, an annual meeting of leading Christian and Muslim scholars for intensive study of Biblical and Koranic texts.

The theme for this year's seminar, organized together with Georgetown University in Washington D.C., is "Communicating the Word: Revelation, Translation and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam."
It's a little hard to have such a conference about the Quran: it's completely revealed, it has to be read in the original Arabic, and there in nothing to interpret. Going to be a mighty short conference. Or a violent one.
Relations between the Catholic and Anglican Churches have been strained over the past decade over the issue of women priests and homosexual bishops in the Anglican Church, which both leaders have acknowledged as obstacles to unity.
Posted by:mrp

#3  Martin Luther1339, well sort of. I saw this detached ass head positioned on a chair beside pope.
Posted by: twobyfour   2008-05-05 21:24  

#2  "Pope Benedict discusses Islam relations with Anglican head ass."

Thre. fixed.
Posted by: Martin Luther1339   2008-05-05 16:58  

#1  No doubt it was of the "Dear William, I imagine your translation of the Koran was missing this particular bit that I found while reading a copy found in the Vatican archives. It was written in the year of our Lord 910, you see. This does rather affect your interpretation, I fear." Poor William, bright as he is, just isn't as intelligent or... thoughtful, as our dear Benedict.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-05-05 12:36  

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