From the dialogue between faith and reason to the dialogue with Islam. "In a dialogue to be intensified with Islam said the Pope as he spoke of his journey to Turkey , we will have to remember the fact that the Muslim world is now faced with a very similar task to that which had been imposed on Christians since the Enlightenment. It is the attitude that the community of the devotees must take before the beliefs and the requirements that have become widespread during the Enlightenment. On one side, we must oppose to a dictatorship of the positivist rationale, which casts God out of the life of the community and the public order. On the other side, we must welcome the true breakthroughs of the Enlightenment, the human rights and above all the freedom of faith and of the practice of faith". The Islamic world too "is faced with the task of finding appropriate solutions to these issues. At present, the content of the dialogue between Christians and Muslims will be that of joining forces in finding the right solutions". Finally, he did not forget to mention the "happy time of ecumenical closeness in the meeting with the Ecumenical patriarch Bartholomaios I. We felt deep unity in faith, and we will pray the Lord that He may soon give us full unity in the common portion of the Bread as well".
