POPE FRANCIS ORDERS VATICAN TO CREATE FIRST EVER ART EXHIBITION TO PROMOTE CHRISLAM!!!

Vatican partners with Islamic museum for unique exhibition. For the first time ever, the Vatican is staging an unusual exhibition in the Emirate of Shajah. The show is seen as a sign of openness and cooperation between religions.

Ulrike al-Khamis has outdone herself. In a project that began six years ago, the art historian from Germany was tasked with bringing the extensive collections of the Emir of Sharjah into shape when the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization was renovated and re-opened. The exhibition she is now presenting in a sparkling domed building almost the size of a soccer field has exceeded expectations.

“It is the first collaboration of the Vatican with an Arab country,” said al-Khamis. Indeed, the exhibition is one-of-a-kind – not only because it presents excellent artworks but also because it furthers dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

A mashup of Western arts, Islam and Buddhism

The artworks on show from the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican stem from the 12th to the 19th century, but also include valuable objects from everyday life in the Arab world. Vases and bracelets, seals and armor, tapestries and precious daggers are on display. All the works come from the Islamic region between Morocco and Sudan all the way to Western China, but are now owned by the Vatican.

Many of the objects embody the dialogue between the Muslim and Western worlds. There’s a dime-sized Koran produced in a print shop in Glasgow, and yellow mugs from Western China that bear an Arabic inscription surrounded by lotus flowers, which are a Buddhist symbol.

“We had only one year to prepare this show,” said Ulrike al-Khamis. When the German art expert began advising in Sharjah, one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates, she did not know what she was getting herself into.

“I traveled to Rome with my colleagues. We, the experts from Sharjah, and some Christian art historians searched the chambers of the Vatican together and discovered several pieces that had never been exhibited before,” she recalled.

The result is a unique show in Sharjah that presents a comprehensive look at Islam.

“So that you may know each other” is the fitting title of the exhibition

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Anti-pope Bergoglio blessed by a Heretic!!

Main leader of the Anglican communion gives
a putative priestly blessing to the Pope. The
leader was blessed in return.
Rome, June 16, 2014

(Rorate Caeli)  -  [T]he difference between Catholics and non-Catholics, as much as they desire fraternity, rests on the level of Faith. We need to have the courage to say this and to say it continuously. Using evasive tactics (even if polite), which obscure all the boundaries into a blurry twilight which abolishes the uncomfortable aspects, is not putting ecumenism into practice.

[True ecumenism] is such when, with the exercise of virtue, personal sacrifice, unyielding patience and tender charity, you set out the terms clearly. Would there perhaps be a return to full unity among believers where the path is paved with misunderstandings and half-truths?

Now it is clear that this bridge – [the true understanding and full acceptance of] the primacy of Rome – needs to be crossed and if it is not crossed over consciously, the goal of true ecumenism will not be attained. And here emerges the real danger with such an exciting topic. We have some who represent this danger, by making ecumenism into a mess of hacked-up doctrine. We have writers, abusing the name of theologian or the dignity of scholarship, who undermine, one after the other, the truths of the Catholic Faith, by breaking up and ignoring the Magisterium. They create doubt regarding the knowledge that the truth of God is one and perfect and if this is denied on one point – such is its interior logic and harmony - it is inevitable that all the rest will be denied.

They do not understand that God has entrusted everything to the Magisterium, which is so certain and divinely guaranteed that one can affirm, «quod Ecclesia semel docuit, semper docuit» [That which the Church teaches once, she teaches always.] Perhaps they have also forgotten that the visibility of the Church and of Her human reality does not compromise Her at all, demonstrating the hand of God on the fact that, had she been entrusted to human hands, she would be already dead from time immemorial and would not be standing today.

Our brothers are waiting for us, but they are waiting in the light of day, not amidst the uncertain shadows of the night.

Cardinal Giuseppe Siri

Renovatio, XII (1977), booklet 1, pp. 3-6

[Online Source: Cordialiter Blog, Translation: Contributor Francesca Romana. Osservatore Romano images gathered by Mr. Christopher Lamb, of The Tablet.]

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