On October 21, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the 🌈 president of the Italian bishops, presented 11 educational materials about Islam for use in Catholic religion classes in Italian schools.
Zuppi warned of "dangerous newspaper headlines, dangerous in terms of Islamophobia, dangerous."
"The future is dialogue," he emphasized. "The opposite also applies: if you don't talk, you fall behind. he world moves forward, and you're the one who falls behind, right?"
Speaking about religion classes, he said that "we must not teach catechism," adding: "This is very important. It's not that someone else tells us this; we ourselves say that catechism must not be taught."
The materials, titled "Sheets for Understanding Islam", were developed by a team composed of equal numbers of Christian and Muslim scholars.
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