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Do We Have a Religious Need for Each Other? Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue

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In October 2017, I participated in the Religions for Peace annual meeting. The participants included leaders from the world’s religions, philanthropists, government representatives, and foundations committed to interreligious cooperation for the common good. Held in Rome, the general theme of the meeting was “Advancing a Moral Alliance Among the World’s Religions for an Integral Ecology.” The theme was obviously inspired by Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home), calling for dialogue and cooperation in addressing the urgent problems of environmental degradation and global warming.

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  1. 1.

    Religions for Peace, https://rfp.org (Accessed 3 May 2018).

  2. 2.

    https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2017/october/documents/papa-francesco_20171018_delegati-religionsforpeace.pdf.

  3. 3.

    Ibid.

  4. 4.

    Address of Pope Francis to Participants in the International Meeting for Peace Sponsored by the Community of Sant’Egidio (30 September 2013), http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2013/september/documents/papa-francesco_20130930_incontro-pace-s-egidio.html.

  5. 5.

    See Pope Francis’s address to the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (28 November 2013), citing his own Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2013/november/documents/papa-francesco_20131128_pc-dialogo-interreligioso.html.

  6. 6.

    Meeting with the Bishops of Asia; Address of Pope Francis at the Shrine of Haemi (17 August 2014). https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/august/documents/papa-francesco_20140817_corea-vescovi-asia.html.

  7. 7.

    Ibid.

  8. 8.

    See Pope Francis’s address to the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (28 November 2013), https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/august/documents/papa-francesco_20140817_corea-vescovi-asia.html.

  9. 9.

    Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium of the Holy Father Francis to the Bishops, Clergy, Consecrated Persons, and the Lay Faithful on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html, 251.

  10. 10.

    https://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia_en.pdf, 140.

  11. 11.

    Meeting with the Bishops of Asia (13–18 August 2014), https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/august/documents/papa-francesco_20140817_corea-vescovi-asia.html.

  12. 12.

    See Address of the Holy Father, Ground Zero Memorial, New York City (25 September 2015), https://m.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/september/documents/papa-francesco_20150925_usa-ground-zero.html.

  13. 13.

    Evangelii Gaudium, 250.

  14. 14.

    https://www.ramakrishna.org/chcgfull.htm (Accessed 8 January 2018).

  15. 15.

    Ibid.

  16. 16.

    Ibid.

  17. 17.

    Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation, Classic Series (London: SCM Press, 2010).

  18. 18.

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_5/Epistles_-_First_Series/XXI_Blessed_and_Beloved.

  19. 19.

    Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works, 8 vols. (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1964–1971). See “Religion not the Crying Need of India,” vol. 1, no. 20.

  20. 20.

    Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works 5, 15.

  21. 21.

    Address of the Holy Father Assisi (20 September 2016). http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2016/september/documents/papa-francesco_20160920_assisi-preghiera-pace.html.

  22. 22.

    Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works 7, 246.

  23. 23.

    See Upaniṣads, trans. Patrick Olivelle (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008); See Shrī Bhagavadgītā, trans. Winthrop Sargeant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993).

  24. 24.

    Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works 3, 142.

  25. 25.

    K. L. Seshagiri Rao, Mahatma Gandhi and C. F. Andrews (Patiala: Punjabi University, 1969), 17. See also, Anantanand Rambachan, “Love Speaking to Love: Friendship Across Religious Traditions,” in Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Friendship Across Religions: Theological Perspectives on Interreligious Friendship (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015), 97–116.

  26. 26.

    https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/january/documents/papa-francesco_20150115_srilanka-filippine-incontro-giornalisti.html.

  27. 27.

    See John Borelli, “Nostra Aetate: Origin, History and Vatican II Context,” in The Future of Interreligious Dialogue: A Multireligious Conversation on Nostra Aetate, eds. Charles L. Cohen et al. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017).

  28. 28.

    Evangelii Gaudium, 247.

  29. 29.

    Ibid., 246.

  30. 30.

    https://m.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/september/documents/papa-francesco_20150925_usa-ground-zero.html.

  31. 31.

    https://m.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/june/documents/papa-francesco_20150606_sarajevo-incontro-ecumenico.html.

  32. 32.

    Meeting with the Bishops of Asia, op. cit.

  33. 33.

    See Anantanand Rambachan, “Interreligious Dialogue: The Political and Theological,” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anantanand-rambachan/interreligious-dialogue-the-political-and-theological_b_7103124.html. For a similar argument in relation to Nostra Aetate, see John J. Thatamanil, “Learning From (and Not Just About) Our Religious Neighbors,” in eds. Cohen et al., The Future of Interreligious Dialogue: A Multireligious Conversation on Nostra Aetate (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017), 289–301.

  34. 34.

    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections (New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 2001), 61.

  35. 35.

    M. K. Gandhi, The Message of Jesus Christ (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1963), 36.

  36. 36.

    Evangelii Gaudium, 254.

  37. 37.

    See Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Sorka, On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Image, 2013), 19.

  38. 38.

    See Paul Knitter, Introducing Theologies of Religions (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002), chap. 2.

  39. 39.

    For a good discussion of Indian theologies of religion, see Harold G. Coward ed., Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987).

  40. 40.

    Meeting with the Bishops of Asia, op. cit. https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/august/documents/papa-francesco_20140817_corea-vescovi-asia.html.

  41. 41.

    Ibid.

  42. 42.

    Gandhi, Message of Jesus, 69.

  43. 43.

    https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/discovery.html.

  44. 44.

    Meeting with the Bishops of Asia, op. cit. https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/august/documents/papa-francesco_20140817_corea-vescovi-asia.html.

  45. 45.

    Nostra Aetate, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html, 2.

  46. 46.

    Thatamanil, “Learning From,” 298.

  47. 47.

    Gandhi, Message of Jesus, 56.

  48. 48.

    Meeting with the Bishops of Asia, op. cit.

  49. 49.

    Ibid.

  50. 50.

    https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/september/documents/papa-francesco_20140921_albania-leaders-altre-religioni.html.

  51. 51.

    https://m.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/june/documents/papa-francesco_20150606_sarajevo-incontro-ecumenico.html.

  52. 52.

    http://catholicnews.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9503:the-future-of-interreligious-dialogue-lies-in-respectful-co-existence-in-diversity&catid=196:vis-vatican-information-service&Itemid=530&lang=en.

  53. 53.

    See, for example, Evangelii Gaudium, 251.

  54. 54.

    https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/january/documents/papa-francesco_20150124_pisai.html (Accessed 3 May 2018).

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Rambachan, A. (2018). Do We Have a Religious Need for Each Other? Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue. In: Kasimow, H., Race, A. (eds) Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96095-1_10

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