This is the same statement made by John Paul II - a statement Pope Benedict XVI would never have made. It represent a Unitarianism that is Foreign to the Catholicism of the Ancient Christian Faith found in Christian Orthodoxy, today. In other words, it is a statement of error from Pope Francis, a heterodox error a NON-Orthodox Christian statement. Further IT IS A LIE.
One could get away with saying, "We must never forget that they (Islam) "profess to hold the faith of Abraham" - this is ostensibly true, although the Abraham in whom they hold faith holds NO commonality or reality to the Abraham of the Christians and Jews, the Abraham of the Old Testament/Torah, the Abraham of Faith. So the claim in the mouth of a Muslim is a LIE, but NOT technically a lie when the Pope says, "they claim." But the next statement is a LIE from his own mouth, saying, "together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day” THAT is emphatically heresy. He just promoted the Murderous Moon Goddess of the Kabbah - a CLEAR ANTI-CHRIST, to be one with the Blessed Holy Trinity, the I AM of Christian and Jewish faith.
Pope Francis' Statement: "Our relationship with the followers of Islam has taken on great importance, since they are now significantly present in many traditionally Christian countries, where they can freely worship and become fully a part of society. We must never forget that they “profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day”… It is admirable to see how Muslims both young and old, men and women, make time for daily prayer and faithfully take part in religious services."
Here is the fact, Ecumenicism is NOT Christianity and the Ecumenicism offered by Vatican II IS heresy. Here is the statement of my mentor on the subject:
“The great heresy of our age seems clearly to be Ecumenism. It would no doubt be nice and convenient if Ecumenism were only true, just that thing that Pope and Patriarch and prudent statesmen of every sort have been looking for these many years, and many now think they have found. But how could that be true and Christianity not be wrong? If Ecumenism is right, then it alone is the one great overarching Truth that stands above everything, not Buddha, not Muhammad, not Jesus, but something higher than any of these individual teachers. Such is not the doctrine of Jesus Christ, Who taught that He Himself is Truth, that He is the Way. He never said that He had found the Truth; he said that He is Truth and that He and the Father are One. Ecumenism is necessarily a Unitarian religion THIS is true, even when Ecumenism begins as ostensibly Christian. If a Christian cannot be Ecumenical, what then can a person do? Obviously, we must follow Christ. But where does Christ lead us, except to Himself?" - Great Schema Archimandrite Damian.
I have to add, an certainly not to some religious error incapable of naming the difference between Christ and anti-christ.
Islam specifically teaches that anyone who says that God has a son, is guilty of blasphemy and ALL blasphemers are worthy of execution.
1Jn 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
1Jn 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1Jn 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Now spare me the Anti-Catholic BS. The Pope merely made a statement of error, he is NOT anti-Christ or OF the Spirit of Anti-Christ because he confesses many times everyday, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Father. But EVERY Muslim who actually grasps the meaning of their religion and CLAIMS it for TRUTH, IS of the spirit of the Anti-Christ and therefore hold NOTHING in common with Christians.
2Jn 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
The Pope, nor any so-called Ecumenical Council of "the Church" get to change this.
