"Interviewer: You are very involved in dialogue with Islam and Judaism. Is it possible to combine mission and interreligious dialogue? Cardinal Aveline: The Church's mission begins with the creation of this climate of dialogue. Again in Ecclesiam suam, Paul VI states that "the climate of dialogue is friendship. Indeed, service." This is what Charles de Foucauld, Pierre Claverie and many others understood: the need for a climate that unites us around the same fundamental existential questions. It is then that the Gospel can be proclaimed, but not as a mere slogan that does not take into account the existential questions of the other. If we consider mission without taking into account the concrete existence of the other, the concrete questions they ask themselves, we risk turning it into a mere word, but not a reality."
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From an interview of Charles de Pechpeyrou, Missione e dialogo, il nuovo libro del cardinale Jean-Marc Aveline, Vatican News (May 3, 2024)
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Jean-Marc Aveline
Jean-Marc Noël Aveline (born 1958) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Archbishop of Marseille in 2019 after serving as an auxiliary bishop there from 2013. On 27 August 2022, Pope Francis made Aveline a cardinal.
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