Pope Receives First Challenge From Relativism Before Assisi

Edit: We'll have to see if indeed the claim of a protestant friend that Pope Benedict was going to use this event as a challenge to relativism is what is planned. How the Pope responds to this request will be very telling on that account.

ROME, August 5, 2011 – The controversy has gone mostly unnoticed, but has brought into grave doubt the presence of the Jews at the "Day of reflection, dialogue, and prayer for peace and justice in the world" convened by Benedict XVI for next October 27 in Assisi.

The spark was an article by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the pontifical council for Christian unity, in "L'Osservatore Romano" on July 7, illustrating the meaning of the Day.

In the final part of his article, Cardinal Koch called the cross of Jesus "the permanent and universal Yom Kippur," and identified in it "the decisive way that Jews and Christians above all [...] should accept in a profound interior reconciliation."

Link to Chiesa...