{"id":4952,"date":"2015-06-26T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2015-06-26T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:21:18","slug":"pope-francis-beaming-as-he-leaves-meeting-with-american-buddhist-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/pope-francis-beaming-as-he-leaves-meeting-with-american-buddhist-leaders.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis “Beaming” as he leaves meeting with American Buddhist leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In a meeting hosted by the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue<\/a> and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/a> this week, the Pope today met with around fifty Buddhists from America:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nA dialogue between Catholic and Buddhist religious and social action leaders began today at the Vatican. Pope Francis stopped by the meeting and <a href=\"https:\/\/https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Louis_Tauran\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cardinal Jean Louis Tauron<\/a> gave a\u00a0welcoming address.<\/p>\nThe Pope then made some brief remarks that were translated to English as he spoke:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nThis is a visit of fraternity of dialogue and of friendship. And this is good.<\/p>\nThis is health.<\/p>\nIn this moment which is wounded by wars and hatred these small gestures are seeds of peace and fraternity.<\/p>\nI really thank you for this.<\/p>\nAnd may God bless you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe Pope both then gave and received gifts and blessings from the Buddhists. As the video commentary notes, \u201cIn the past, dialogues between the two religious groups focused on mutual understanding. However, in this meeting the focus was on how they can work together to address social problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cPope Francis clearly enjoyed the event, as he was beaming on the way out of the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\nFor me this is a very welcome event and I hope it bears fruits in both action on the ground and connections and more \u201cmutual understanding\u201d so that future collaborations can grow and flourish. I wonder what my friends at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Catholic.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Patheos Catholic Channel<\/a> make of this?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a meeting hosted by the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops this week, the Pope today met with around fifty Buddhists from America: A dialogue between Catholic and Buddhist religious and social action leaders began today at the Vatican. 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