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When I went through the RCIA (adult conversion to Catholocism), I was working with an awesome priest who explained it like this...
He drew a big circle with a dot in the middle. He said the dot represented being one with God. He then put dots all over within the circle, including one that was very close. He said each dot represented a different religion/denomination. Then he said that as Catholics, we'd like to believe that we are the dot closest to the center, but, we don't really know and the most important thing is that everybody is working toward the same goal. I was VERY surprised that a Catholic priest was saying this because I had expected that there was less tolerance for other religions within Catholicism. I was equally surprised that if you go through the RCIA and have been baptized in any other Christian denomination, it is recognized by the Catholic church and you then only have to do the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confirmation. (and confession of course).
Dee
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