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Vatican: Peace with Buddhists is the Golden Way to Peace
April 4, 2011

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue emphasizes the quest for truth that is shared by Buddhists and Catholics.




The Vatican wishes spiritual enrichment to all Buddhists celebrating Vesakh.
The council sent a message to Buddhist celebrating the birth of Buddha – the feast Vesakh.

The message, titled “Seeking Truth in Freedom: Christians and Buddhists Live in Peace,” was publicized yesterday by the Vatican.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the council’s president and secretary Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata prayed that the celebration “may bring serenity and joy to Buddhists throughout the world.”

“All persons have a natural duty to seek truth, to follow it and freely to live their lives in accordance with it,” the prelates stated.

They continued, “this human striving for truth offers a fruitful opportunity for the followers of the different religions to encounter one another in depth and to grow in appreciation of the gifts of each.”

In today’s world,” the statement noted, “marked by forms of secularism and fundamentalism that are often inimical to true freedom and spiritual values, interreligious dialogue can be the alternative choice by which we find the ‘golden way’ to live in peace and work together for the good of all.”

They stressed that this dialogue “is also a powerful stimulus to respect for the fundamental human rights of freedom of conscience and freedom of worship.”

“Wherever religious freedom is effectively acknowledged, the dignity of the human person is respected at its root,” the prelates affirmed. “By the sincere search for what is true and good, moral conscience and civil institutions are strengthened, and justice and peace are firmly established.”



Catholics and Buddhists unite through contemplative prayer. Notice the priest before the Catholic altar and the Buddha statue.
The message to Buddhists concluded with a statement that bonds Buddhists and Catholics:

In today’s world, marked by forms of secularism and fundamentalism that are often inimical to true freedom and spiritual values, interreligious dialogue can be the alternative choice by which we find the “golden way” to live in peace and work together for the good of all.

As Pope Benedict XVI has said, “for the Church, dialogue between the followers of the different religions represents an important means of cooperating with all religious communities for the common good” (Message for the World Day of Peace 2011, no. 11).

Such dialogue is also a powerful stimulus to respect for the fundamental human rights of freedom of conscience and freedom of worship. Wherever religious freedom is effectively acknowledged, the dignity of the human person is respected at its root; by the sincere search for what is true and good, moral conscience and civil institutions are strengthened; and justice and peace are firmly established.

“Dear Buddhist Friends, we pray that your celebration of Vesakh will be a source of spiritual enrichment and an occasion to take up anew the quest of truth and goodness, to show compassion to all who suffer, and to strive to live together in harmony.”



Pope John Paul II stands in solidarity with the Dali Lama, both praying to 'god' for world " peace."
Source: zenit zenit (letter)

My comment:

What the Vatican is doing is spiritual prostitution; a fornication with the religions of the world to gather all them under her ‘leadership.’ The Roman Catholic Church is frantically pursuing dialogue with Muslim, atheists, Christians and Buddhists. She is surely the prostitute drunk with the blood of the saints.

If you are Catholic, as I was, please heed this article as a warning. The Vatican is leading their members into darkness as the Church flatters world religions with sweet-talk and compromise. What a blasphemy. What lies. Their “dialogue” will end in world religion with the Pope as it’s head.

These men act holy in their fine robes and hats while they deny the Gospel, making His word null and void. Was the Gospel being preached to the Buddhists? No. Did they tell them to stop following false gods? Again, no.

Dear Catholics, please see what the Vatican is doing and turn to the Only One that saves, Lord Jesus the Messiah. In Him alone, you will find Life Everlasting.

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save

Rev 17: 3-6

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. This title was written on her forehead:

mystery

babylon the great

the mother of prostitutes

and of the abominations of the earth.

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

Matthew 10:34

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Written by Sue

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