
The Vatican's book collection contains “incredibly old Korans,” Don Cardinali continued. “We are a universal library; there are Arabic, Jewish, Ethiopian collections, Chinese unique items.”
According to the vice prefect, the Vatican Library contains a total of around 80,000 manuscripts, 50,000 archival items, almost two million printed books, 100,000 engravings and prints, and 100,000 coins and medals.
Apostasy from the Faith is defined as “the complete and voluntary abandonment of the Christian religion, whether the apostate embraces another religion such as Paganism, Judaism, Mohammedanism, etc., or merely makes profession of Naturalism, Rationalism, etc.” (Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. “Apostasy”).
In 1918, the great Cardinal Mercier of Belgium stated that the First World War was a punishment for the crime of men placing the one true Catholic religion on the same level with false creeds. Cardinal Mercier said, “In the name of the Gospel, and in the light of the Encyclicals of the last four Popes, Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, and Pius X, I do not hesitate to affirm that this indifference to religions which puts on the same level the religion of divine origin and the religions invented by men in order to include them in the same scepticism is the blasphemy which calls down chastisement on society far more than the sins of individuals and families.”
Muslims mock Francis' visit as surrender to Islamic supremacy
III – The prayers and customs of the Muslims are not pleasing to God
Council of Vienne (Ecumenical XV)
– The public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet is expressly forbidden – it displeases the divine majesty
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
– Non-Christian rituals constitute an obstacle to salvation
Pius XI
Catechism of the Catholic Church
– Those who do not act habitually according to the Spirit of Christ, can neither pray habitually in his Name
Paul VI
– We cannot agree with various forms of religion
Pius X
– According to modernist theories, the Islamic religious experiences are true
John Paul II
– No one can enter into communion with God except through Christ
Leo XIII
– Differing modes of divine worship involving dissimilarity and conflict cannot all be equally acceptable to God
Catechism of Trent
– The practice of praying in spirit is peculiar to Christians and not used by infidels
Saint Thomas Aquinas
– Prayer in not meritorious without sanctifying grace
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