STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR GINGRICH ON THE LAUNCH OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS INITIATIVE
January 16, 2020
On January 14, I was honored to host the opening session of the Abrahamic Faiths Initiative (AFI) at my residence, facilitating discussions among faith leaders to advance peace and mutual respect around the world.
This remarkable gathering of faith leaders was organized by a U.S. non-profit organization, the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network (MFNN), under the leadership of Pastor Bob Roberts, Imam Mohamed Magid, and Rabbi David Saperstein, with the support of U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.
The AFI, which convened 25 senior global religious leaders representing a range of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities for a two-day working dialogue at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, was inspired by Pope Francis and Al-Azhar Grand Imam Al-Tayyeb’s 2019 Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.
Indeed, the AFI responds directly to their invitation to reconciliation and fraternity among all believers and people of good will. The Document on Human Fraternity, as stated by Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, one of the participants in the AFI, is a “milestone on the path of interreligious dialogue.”...
The Abrahamic Faiths Initiative ignores the rational interpretation of Vatican Council II by Catholics.Instead it promotes the irrational interpretation of the Council II to create a rupture with traditional Catholic teachings on exclusive salvation being there in only the Catholic Church. It is another sign of intolerance at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome.
The Initiative is inspired by Pope Francis' meeting with Al Azhar Grand Imam Al Tayyeb, when the Holy Father cited Vatican Council II as the basis for his declaration. He was referring to a Vatican Council II interpreted with an irrational premise, inference and conclusion.This is also the only interpretation of Vatican Council II known to Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixo.
Peace and mutual respect cannot be advanced with a deceptive interpretation of Catholic magisterial documents to create schism with the past popes over the centuries and a false profession of faith among Catholics.
Toleration also means accepting traditional Catholic teachings like outside the Church there is no salvation, an ecumenism of return and the proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ the King in political legislation with the non separation of Church and State.
The U.S Embassy to the Holy See's interaction with Catholics is presently based upon the irrational model of Vatican Council II. This is deceptive.-Lionel Andrades
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
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