The Pope Didn’t Say It, But He Kinda Did – December 6th, 2014 9:20 am

“They (Muslims) say: ‘No, we are not this, the Koran is a book of peace, it is a prophetic book of peace,’” he added.

Those were the words of Pope Francis. He did not call the Koran “a prophetic book of peace.”

Vatican II did. In so many words.

Nostra Aetate #3
“The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God.”

The use of the term “inscrutable” is exceedingly worrisome because it proposes a newer yet Old Covenant relationship to God, bereft of any influence or mention of the factual Jesus Christ. There is no partiality to God. You can’t believe in God the Father, and the Holy Spirit while tossing out the Son. And to propose that an inscrutable understanding of God exists, as Vatican II proposes, is – putting it mildly – confusing.

But then, what did we hear from the lips of the pope last January? He told Muslims to cling to their Koran, and the faith their parents taught them. So, he may not have used those precise words in that recent chat with journalists on the way back home from Turkey. But he has proven time and again, in relation to other false religions, that he is a true child of the Second Vatican Council.turkey-popejpeg-03311_s877x610