There are statements so thoroughly post-Catholic that the first temptation is to suspect a bad translation.
Unfortunately, Leo XIV delivered this one in several languages.
Standing Monday before representatives of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy in Metz, Leo informed his audience that dialogue requires each participant to serve as a “guardian” of his own religious tradition. Then came the remarkable assertion that the “fruitfulness of religious traditions” is revealed in their service to peace and fraternity.
Finally:
“Religions are guardians of life, for they affirm its sacred value.”
These are Leo’s words in the official Vatican text.
Read them again from the standpoint of the religion Catholics professed before the ecumenical fog machine was switched on. A Buddhist should guard Buddhism. A Muslim should guard Islam. A Jew should guard Judaism. Their respective religions possess “fruitfulness.”
“Religions,” collectively, guard life.
And the alleged Roman Pontiff’s role is apparently to congratulate everybody for remaining faithful custodians of the religious traditions separating them from the Catholic Faith.
We have traveled a very long way from “Go therefore and teach all nations.”
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