Who would not love Pope Francis?

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I am fascinated by Pope Francis, he is an ideal religious man and I like
him a lot. I will do anything for him to restore harmony in the
world. I know him now, he would not ask me to become a Catholic,
because he sees the bottom line of being a good Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Catholic,
Wicca, Sikh or other would be the same – to create societies where no one has
to live in apprehension or fear of the other, that’s how God had created the
world; in harmony. 

He said
it’s enough to be a witness of hope and, as St. Peter said, “always be
ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your
hope.”

I really like this, with this I am getting closer to his thinking.
“Hypocrisy is a grave sin,” he said, underlining how important
credibility was in helping the church grow, not through proselytism, but by
attraction.” Indeed those were identical words of Prophet Muhammad; he
said be a good example that people wanted to emulate you for the common good of
humanity.

A woman asked the pope how she should pray for one of her relatives who was
going to become a Franciscan friar. The pope said to pray that the man would
have “the perseverance to go forward, but also the courage to turn back if
he understands that this is not the right path.”

This is the kind of confidence I like to see
in religious men and women.  When I challenged a Pastor in Dallas, who
called Quran an evil book, I said, I will give you a copy of the right
translation of Quran (2 of 25 are bad) and if you find three things that
are evil, I will abandon my faith and join yours. To which a few of my Muslim
friends said I should not have said that. They did not have the confidence in
the book of wisdom and were worried that they will lose me to the Pastor. I
have full confidence in Quran, it is a book of guidance to create just
societies, just as other holy books.

I have written the following pieces on Pope:

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