from a talk by Christopher Jamison, former abbot at Worth.

"Pope Benedict . . . . uses the image of the Court of the Gentiles, that part of the Jerusalem Temple that was open to all peoples, the part that Our Lord cleared of money changers: "Today too, he says, the Church should open a sort of ‘Court of the Gentiles' in which people might latch on to God, without knowing him and before gaining access to his mystery ... there should be a dialogue with those to whom religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown and who nevertheless do not want to be left merely Godless, but rather to draw near to him, albeit as the Unknown.""