Cardinal Vesco defends interfaith stance, says monotheists should not seek to convert

Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, archbishop of Algiers, has defended his claim that the Church is "not there to convert", saying Christians, Jews and Muslims have "better things to do" than convert one another. He was answering Bishop Robert Barron, who cited Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28. The exchange shows a senior churchman presenting interfaith fraternity as a replacement for evangelism, a shift that quietly sets aside the exclusive claims of Christ found in John 14:6.