"Everything is connected. Every thing has an effect on everything else. Nothing is in isolation. If I touch a flower that is springing from the earth, I am at the same time touching a star in the heavens above". (Sister Rita Larivee, SSA)
Our world is getting smaller. We rub elbows with people of many languages, cultures, and beliefs. Do we owe their unfamiliar creeds any respect? The church says we do. The 1965 Second Vatican Council “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions” states: “The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions . . . . Let Christians, while witnessing to their own faith and way of life, acknowledge, preserve, and encourage the spiritual and moral truths found among non-Christians, also their social life and culture” (no. 2).
I AM A FRIEND TO EVERYONE WHO RESPECTS YOU AND TO EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS YOUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES. Psalm 119: 63
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