Catholic-Muslim Forum stresses human rights

The Catholic-Muslim Forum which was created after Pope Benedict's much-discussed Regensburg Speech of September 12, 2006, has come to the end after a several-day-long meeting in the Vatican. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica stresses the political character of its closing document. "Christians and Muslims are now to jointly prevent a new explosion of violence in an anti-crisis committee. ... This is more than just an appeal, it is an attempt to establish a common code of behaviour and reads like a political treaty. ... In the final analysis it also represents the first concrete result of the thesis firmly held by the Pope: that the world's religions must measure themselves against the standard of rational public action, and that the proof of this - basically secular - rationality is the respect for human rights."

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