Is There Room in the Catholic Church for Those Who Don’t Believe Islam is a Religion of Peace? One priest and college president thinks not – and he is likely not alone.

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Is There Room in the Catholic Church for Those Who Don’t Believe Islam is a Religion of Peace?
One priest and college president thinks not – and he is likely not alone.
August 15, 2016
Robert Spencer
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Last Wednesday, I had a lively discussion with Msgr. Stuart Swetland, president of Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas, on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show, on whether or not Islam was a religion of violence. Msgr. Swetland argued not only that Islam was a religion of peace, but that to believe otherwise was to place oneself in opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Now, I’m a Catholic. But if Msgr. Swetland is correct, I may not be one for long.

Msgr. Swetland has now helpfully supplied me with remarks clarifying his position and supporting it with statements of various Popes and the Second Vatican Council. Msgr. Swetland contends that statements of recent Popes to the effect that Islam is a religion of peace fall into the category of teachings to which Catholics must give “religious assent,” as per the Second Vatican Council document Lumen Gentium, which states: “In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263850/there-room-catholic-church-those-who-dont-believe-robert-spencer

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Msgr. Swetland contends that statements of recent Popes to the effect that Islam is a religion of peace fall into the category of teachings to which Catholics must give “religious assent,” as per the Second Vatican Council document Lumen Gentium, which states: “In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent.”

Swetland's quote from Lumen Gentium is correct; his assertion about Islam does not fall into the category of "faith and morals."  So he's incorrect about what Catholics must believe about it.

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Swetland's quote from Lumen Gentium is correct; his assertion about Islam does not fall into the category of "faith and morals."  So he's incorrect about what Catholics must believe about it.

If, as Lumen Gentium says, “this religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra,” and “must be shown in such a way that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will,”

Such amorphous bafflegab seems to invite confusion.