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I joined the Jesuits today. Specifically, I spent most of the day with the Jesuits at their parish Church in Glasgow and then joined Jesuit Missions for the huge Glasgow Climate March for the Global Day of Climate Action.It all started with a Mass at 9am at St Aloysius to conclud.
Pope Francis receives flowers from children during a welcoming ceremony with Iraqi President Barham Salih at the presidential palace in Baghdad on March 5, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Francis, now the first pope to set foot in Iraq, hopes to bring consolation, healing and peace to a people devastated by war. A meeting between the minarets and the bell-towers is how the trip is spoken of by journalists and on social media. That image is a helpful one to keep in mind when thinking about the history between Islam and Catholicism. While churches and mosques have been built for centuries in close proximity to each other, the relationship between those who worship God inside these sacred houses of prayer has not always been as close.