{"id":603,"date":"2013-04-17T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxviews.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2013-04-17T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:07:13","slug":"is-pope-francis-laying-the-groundwork-for-a-one-world-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Is Pope Francis Laying The Groundwork For A One World Religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">Instead of having our Orthodox Bishops warning us about what is really happening in the world we get non Orthodox sites to warn us about the impending danger<\/font>? Unfortunately they are there to betray. Here is what we find on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/is-pope-francis-laying-the-groundwork-for-a-one-world-religion\">The American Dream<\/a>&#8221; website:<\/p>\n<p>Quotes:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nDuring that same ecumenical meeting, Pope Francis also made it a point to state that he feels \u201cclose\u201d to those that belong \u201cto any religious tradition\u201d\u2026 In this, we feel close even to all those men and women who, whilst not recognizing themselves belonging to any religious tradition, feel themselves nevertheless to be in search of truth, goodness and beauty, this truth, goodness and beauty of God, and who are our precious allies in efforts to defend the dignity of man, in building a peaceful coexistence among peoples and in guarding Creation carefully.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, he seems quite interested in improving relations with the Orthodox churches of the east\u2026 Before his address, <strong>the pope had a private meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew from Istanbul<\/strong>, who attended Francis\u2019s inaugural Mass on Tuesday. It was the first time the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians had attended a Roman pope\u2019s inaugural Mass since the Great Schism between western and eastern Christianity in 1054. <strong>At Wednesday\u2019s meeting, Francis called Bartholomew \u201cmy brother Andrew,\u201d<\/strong> a reference to the apostle who was the brother of St. Peter and was the first bishop of the Church of Byzantium. <strong>Francis also held a private session with Metropolitan Hilarion, the foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest in the Orthodox world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also Pope Francis has a reputation for being a cleric that really \u201cknows Islam\u201c\u2026<br \/>\nSumer Noufouri, secretary-general of the Islamic Center of the Republic of Argentina, told the Buenos Aires Herald that the new pope is a \u201crespectful, pro-dialogue person who knows Islam.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of having our Orthodox Bishops warning us about what is really happening in the world we get non Orthodox sites to warn us about the impending danger? Unfortunately they are there to betray. Here is what we find on the &#8220;The American Dream&#8221; website: Quotes: During that same ecumenical meeting, Pope Francis also made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}