Pope to meet leading Islamic cleric who criticised his remarks
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 02 10:36 AMVATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI will this month meet the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the leading Islamic cleric who publicly criticised his controversial remarks last year about Islam, the Vatican said Friday.
The Cairo-based Grand Imam, the foremost authority on Sunni Islam, was scheduled to meet the pontiff in the Vatican on March 22, said Cardinal Paul Poupard, chairman of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
The pope's invitation was delivered to Sheikh Tantawi by Poupard last month during a visit to Cairo for talks with the country's religious authorities.
The pope in February called for more dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims. His remarks came some five months after he sparked outrage in the Muslim world with remarks that were seen as linking Islam with violence.
Sheikh Tantawi was one of the leading Muslim religious leaders to respond most critically at the time to Pope Benedict's remarks.
posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 7:39 PM
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