Yours is a land of ancient culture, the cradle of great religions, the home of a nation that has sought God with relentless desire. Rarely has this longing for God been expressed with words so full of the spirit of Advent as in your sacred books many centuries before Christ: "From the unreal lead me to the real, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to immortality."
—Pope Paul VI in Bombay
We are keen students of Catholic theology. We know the way in which St. Thomas Aquinas reconciled Christian with Aristotelian thought. In the same spirit, your council...