Pope to Muslims: let's get to work

The National Catholic Reporter has my recent RNS piece on Pope Benedict's reply to "A Common Word," the letter from 138 Muslim scholars and clerics seeking better relations with the Christian world.

Benedict invited a delegation of the signatories to the Vatican, for a papal audience and a "working meeting" with Vatican experts on inter-religious dialog. So far, the Muslim writers have yet to reply publicly to the invitation.