dialogue

Reflection Date: September 6, 2024
He challenges us to undergo a transformative renewal of our faith

Reflection Date: September 10, 2023
God is warning against the culture of passivity.

Pope Francis stressed interreligious dialogue as a way to cultivate ecological responsibility when he met with a group of Cambodian Buddhists on January 19.

Asian church is obligated to "promote intercultural and interreligious dialogue." "This requires working together with a wide range of groups, such as governments, other religious leaders, and non-governmental organizations," said Cardinal Goh to the delegates of the FABC-OSC Bishops' Meet. 

People are becoming homeless and are migrating to cities and countries. Migration is a global reality and brings in multiculturality and multi-religiosity in the cities. We find difference, diversity, and polarity in the global village for our mission today. To approach this situation and do our mission we need to dialogue.

In Cavite, south of the city of Manila - the capital of the Philippines, local parishioners meet to discuss the life of their local church, its mission, outreach, and hopes for the future. They meet, share, and discuss, in a common journey of synodality, one of many similar gatherings taking place around the world now leading to the global 2023 Synod on synodality.

Cardinal Bo stressed the need for the Church to be reactive, to be an agent of peace, initiating dialogue, advocating for equality, and standing up to power with ‘empty hands.’ Mentioning that ‘every jubilee calls for metanoia, the Cardinal challenged the delegates to ‘fight for peace’ and to let peace-making be the new evangelization.’

Pope Francis called for peace, dialogue, and fraternity for the deadly protests in Iraq on August 31, 2022.

In his Message for the World Day of Social Communications, Pope Francis says listening is an indispensable first step in human communication, and a dimension of love.

‘Today, a revolution is underway,’ the pope told the Pontifical Council for Culture.