"Our dialogue is inevitable," said Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington. It is inevitable because "for the major part of our history we have been one thing in spirit." "Christianity appeared more than 2,000 years ago," but the history of the Jewish people "the chosen people of God" is a history we all share and without whom we will be empty and without purpose." "In all this," concluded the Archbishop, "I hope to see the call for another inevitable dialogue which is the dialogue with the family of Islam. They also are sons of Abraham and they accept the uniqueness of the One God who loves us. Even with them, we must learn to share and work together for all the good things that God wants to give us and for all the blessings we derive from our being together in this world, smaller and smaller, that we are called to make a place of peace and harmony in which we will understand that we are all brothers and sisters of the one human family of God." ” “
