There are people who will declare “all roads lead to God.” That is nonsense, and is so broad that it has no meaning whatever. If you claim to believe in everything, you actually believe in nothing. There are also priests who do not believe in God at all, which should be a reason to get out of the religion business, but it’s a paycheck, I guess.
One would imagine Pope Francis to be a little more solid in his Catholic beliefs, but he seems to be a little wobbly on the basic principles of Catholicism, which are that it is God’s church, and he is the Vicar of Christ, meaning Christ’s representative on earth. Catholic belief is that the church authority is granted through a line of priesthood starting with Peter, clear through the papacy to Francis, so in essence, all other churches are apostate. Maybe Francis didn’t get the message.
You also have those who “protested” against the authority of the papacy, as “Protestant” churches did centuries ago. Those traditional Protestant churches still hold that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, and so there is a commonality of belief between Catholics and Protestants that recognizes Jesus as savior. That would seem to be a pretty good reason to develop unity and common cause between Catholics and Protestants, especially when Christianity in general is under attack and Christians are being murdered in the Middle East by Islamic warriors.
Other belief systems reject Christ entirely, including Islam, which believes Christ was a prophet but not the Messiah, and believes that salvation is through Islam and worship of Allah. The origin of Allah is murky, but he was probably a figure recognized as a moon god by the Sumerians and worshiped by Babylonians, Assyrians, and Akkadians, then worshipped by Arabs among a pantheon of about 360 gods until Mohammed elevated Allah above all the other gods, and then to the one and only God.
The weird thing now is that Pope Francis seems to be making nice with Islam, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though that issue of Muslims murdering Christians and driving them out from Muslim dominant nations in the Middle East should be a little troubling. But Francis is going well beyond trying to settle old rivalries, and that should be cause for alarm for anyone who professes a Christian belief.
See video and Pope Francis uniting with Islam on page 2:
Pope should pertain to religion not politics. Because it shows his ignorance.
Islam is not a race and Muslim is not an ethnic group. Islam is a set of ideas and Muslims are people who follow those ideas. It is not only appropriate but imperative that the world take a closer look at those ideas and those who follow that set of ideas. The originator of this set of ideas had sex with a 9 year old girl, slit the throats of two poets for writing negative verses about him, enslaved thousands of people, raped hundreds of women, ordered the murder of 800 unarmed people, and led twelve armed military actions. Since that time the people who follow his ideas have carried out more than ten thousand jihads which have resulted in the deaths of eighty million Hindus, sixty million Christians, ten million Buddhists, and over one hundred and twenty million Africans. Today, 2016, followers of his ideas own more slaves than were brought to North America during the entire history of the United States. Followers of his ideas murder more people on average per day than the Klan have killed in the past one hundred years. Values and ideas are not equal and do not deserve equal respect. Islamophobia is a nonsense term that tries to conflate criticism of its fantastical claims with generalized bigotry. Islam is a set of ideas that simply cannot hold its own in an argument.
Despicable person
Judas comes back to life wuth 30 pieces of silver.. history repeats itself on body from an antuchrist.
anybody who respects this POS needs to have their head examined …the pope is evil … in my life time only pope who is a communist and worthless POS ,,, working for the devil…
This pope is a disgrace to Catholic Church and Catholics
Dont loose your head now
Give him an exorcism!
and an enema!
He’s a devil