Pope Francis and Grand Imam sign joint statement on Human Fraternity
Yesterday Pope Francis, during his historic first-ever visit of a Roman pontiff to the Arabian peninsula, again made big news by signing a joint statement on “Human Fraternity” with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb. He’s sort of like the Sunni Muslim pope, if you keep in mind that Islam isn’t a centralized religion and so has no pope. This is the most significant document on Catholic-Muslim relations since Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate. Rather than being a...