While not all will be at ease with the pace of new movements toward interreligious understanding, it would be very hard indeed to argue that things have not changed for the better.
If we act like the Samaritan in refusing to pass by at a distance, we will be releasing a force greater than all the guns and all the fears and hatred in our society.
Francis focuses attention on how Christianity's relationship to Europe begins in service, and asks challenging questions about how both Islam and Christianity can be misused for conquest.