In March of 2008 I blogged about the conversion
of Magdi Allam by Pope Benedict.
Just a couple days ago reports began to surface that Magdi
had left the Catholic Church. It’s a shocker and a terrible disappointment for
all Catholics.
I think Robert Spencer has a very useful summary
of the story and its underlying dynamics. It’s an important read.
The highest-profile
convert to Roman Catholicism in recent memory, Magdi Cristiano Allam, has left
the Catholic Church.
Allam, who was
baptized in the Vatican by Pope Benedict XVI on Easter day 2008, explained that
what “more than any other factor drove me away from the Church” was the
“legitimization of Islam as the true religion of Allah as the one true God,
Muhammad as a true prophet, the Koran as a sacred text, and of mosques as
places of worship.”
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