This morning was the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast in Worcester.
Like last year’s, it happened to fall during Ramadan. The speaker was Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, and a convert from Catholicism to Islam. She talked about Islamic ethics and the potential for peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths.
(In this, she seemed to differ from a Muslim-turned-Christian who Mike Schorsch heard speak recently.)
Hermis Yanis taped her talk, and the following discussion, for his TV show. I hope we can post some clips soon.
In the aftermath of the pope’s Regensburg lecture, it would have been nice had there been a Catholic clergyman at the podium at some point, but no such luck. (The bishop was there, of course.)
Worcester’s Catholic Workers were remarkably well-represented at the breakfast. Above, Tom Lewis, Harry Duchesne, and Mike Boover ruminate. Below, Bruce glows after drinking way too much coffee.
