Dialogue with Islam in light of Islamic terrorism and the rise of
ISIS was a leading topic of discussion at the recent fall meeting of the
French bishops at Lourdes.Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, attended the meeting and said at a press conference that Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks on Islam in his 2006 Regensburg address were “prophetic” in light of what has transpired in recent years.
“Islam and Christianity are two religions with a universal vocation; it is normal that there be frictions,” Cardinal Tauran said at a press conference, according to La Croix. “But the difference is that we propose, they impose.”