July 19, 2015
By Emily Ngo
Pope Francis (click here) will seek to emphasize the importance of interreligious relations during his September visit to New York City and will hold up the city as a prime example of harmony among faiths, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Sunday.
Dolan said the pontiff will reflect on and grieve about the use of religion as a vehicle of violence during the 9/11 terrorist attacks and then meet with clerical leaders who are working toward a peaceful path together.
"Pope Francis has been amazed at the interreligious friendship and harmony in the United States and especially in New York," Dolan told 970/AM host John Catsimatidis during a radio interview.
His busy schedule while in the city includes a Sept. 25 address to the General Assembly of the United Nations that will be "a ringing call for religious freedom, the protection of all religions around the world, particularly religious minorities," Dolan said.
Immediately afterward, Francis will "be in tearful silence at the Sept. 11 memorial where religion was used in a perverse and viciously evil way to justify an act of terror," Dolan said. "What he's telling the world is this is not the way religion should be used."
He will next visit the underground museum at the memorial site where 500 leaders representing the city's diversity of faiths will gather, Dolan said.
This is a contingent of clerics "who love one another, who get along well and who work together for the betterment of this great city," the cardinal said. "He's more or less saying this is the way that religion should get along, so I think it's going to be powerful."...
By Emily Ngo
Pope Francis (click here) will seek to emphasize the importance of interreligious relations during his September visit to New York City and will hold up the city as a prime example of harmony among faiths, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Sunday.
Dolan said the pontiff will reflect on and grieve about the use of religion as a vehicle of violence during the 9/11 terrorist attacks and then meet with clerical leaders who are working toward a peaceful path together.
"Pope Francis has been amazed at the interreligious friendship and harmony in the United States and especially in New York," Dolan told 970/AM host John Catsimatidis during a radio interview.
His busy schedule while in the city includes a Sept. 25 address to the General Assembly of the United Nations that will be "a ringing call for religious freedom, the protection of all religions around the world, particularly religious minorities," Dolan said.
Immediately afterward, Francis will "be in tearful silence at the Sept. 11 memorial where religion was used in a perverse and viciously evil way to justify an act of terror," Dolan said. "What he's telling the world is this is not the way religion should be used."
He will next visit the underground museum at the memorial site where 500 leaders representing the city's diversity of faiths will gather, Dolan said.
This is a contingent of clerics "who love one another, who get along well and who work together for the betterment of this great city," the cardinal said. "He's more or less saying this is the way that religion should get along, so I think it's going to be powerful."...
