Sky News Australia slams Pope Francis’ remark that ‘every religion is a path to God’

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Posted on 09/25/2024 10:15:39 AM PDT by ebb tide

Sky News host James Macpherson asked, 'How can men rediscover truth and reality when even the pope seems to have given up on believing in God?'

Sky News Australia issued a scathing critique of Pope Francis’ claim in Singapore that “every religion is a way to arrive at God,” denouncing this as an attempt at “inclusion based on denial of the truth.”

“Is the pope Catholic? All of a sudden that’s not a rhetorical question,” Sky News host James Macpherson noted. He highlighted Francis’ suggestion that “no one could say their religion was more important or truer than anyone else’s.”

“If you have to deny truth in order to be inclusive, then how valuable is that inclusion? If inclusion is based on denial of the truth, then aren’t you including people in a lie?” Macpherson remarked.

He pointed to the meaninglessness and absurdity of our culture’s valuing of inclusion for its own sake.

“But to be inclusive, you have to include people around something,” Macpherson said. “Culture, having given up on truth, is trying to include people around inclusion. And without shared values, thanks to decades of multiculturalism, we’re trying to create social cohesion around a shared desire for social cohesion. It’s a fool’s errand, because none of it makes sense.”

“And if inclusion is only made possible by inviting everyone to close their eyes to reality, then aren’t you seeking to include everyone in a kind of insanity?” he added.

The news host maintained that with all the crises the West is facing now, the “greatest crisis” is “one of reality and of meaning.”

As evidence of this fact, he shared clips showing prominent political figures who refuse to acknowledge the fact that one’s gender is defined by one’s biology. He featured the famous example of Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson claiming she could not define what a woman is, as well as UK politician Sir Edward Davey’s assertion that a woman “can have a penis.”

“China and Russia and North Korea may well be threats, but the greatest existential threat facing the Western world is the abandonment of truth,” Macpherson continued.

Quoting his predecessor John Paul II, Francis argued, “More perhaps than ever before in history the intrinsic link between an authentic religious attitude and the great good of peace has become evident to all.”

“The spirit of Assisi is a blessing for this world of ours, still torn by numerous wars and acts of violence. The ‘spirit’ of Assisi must blow even stronger in the sails of dialogue and friendship between peoples,” the Pope stated, adding his hope that the Sant’Egidio meeting might “encourage all believers to rediscover their vocation to nurture fraternity between peoples in our time.”

Neglecting to mention Jesus or the Catholic Church in his speech, Francis urged the group to “weave bonds of fraternity and to allow ourselves to be guided by the divine inspiration present in every faith,” building upon comments made during an interreligious gathering in Singapore just weeks ago in which he stated that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.”

Following criticism that he was undermining key teachings of the faith in his Singapore address, Pope Francis doubled down on his comments, telling an ecumenical group that their diverse religious beliefs are “a gift from God.”

Catholic Church teaching emphasizes the need to bring all people to God through the Church He established on Earth, and that Jesus is “the way” to salvation (Jn. 14:6).

While addressing the Sant’Egidio gathering, which historically has Francis’ backing, the Pope hearkened back to his joint declaration with Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi, arguing that religions must reject the supposed “temptation” to “become a means of fueling forms of nationalism, ethnocentrism and populism.”

The Pontiff argued that “[a]ll too often in the past, religions were used to fuel conflicts and wars,” adding that this “danger” continues “even in our own day.”

The Pope also took the opportunity to reiterate a familiar call for climate change action and stressed that this, along with “pandemic” challenges, form part of “epochal changes” leading the world in an unknown direction.

Concluding his address, Francis insisted to the representatives of “the world’s great religions” that “God has placed also in our hands His dream for the world: fraternity between all peoples.”

Pope Francis has encouraged previous gatherings of the Sant’Egidio Community’s “prayer meeting for peace” to call for “more vaccines” as well as drawing on his encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti to promote “interreligious dialogue” for the purpose of “fraternity,” preferring to condemn the act of “proselytizing” non-Catholics.

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