Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Among the gravest of errors widespread today, even in Catholic circles, is the one that holds that religions are equal because they all worship just one God. This is a very grave error, because it denies at its root the intrinsic truth of the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the statements of Pope Francis at the Catholic Junior College of Singapore on 13 September 2024 are along these lines and, with all due respect to the Pope, they are objectively scandalous. We should recall St. Francis Xavier’s credo: “I believe all that the holy Church, our mother, commands me to believe. I have the firm resolution to lose all, suffer all, give my blood and my life, rather than to renounce a single point of my faith, in which I wish to live and die.”
