Does The Church Equate God And Allah?

[Called2theCross]

In class at my Catholic school, my religion teacher said that it was okay to say "Allah" when praying because God and Allah are the same God. I disagreed, rationalizing that both Catholics and Muslims are monotheistic, but Allah is not necessarily exactly the same as God. I tried to look it up in the Catechism, but the only passage I could locate addressing that matter was very ambiguous:

[b]841[/b] The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."

Can someone give me a straight answer?

[Theoketos]

In Arabic the word for God is Allah. Chaldean Catholics use this word in their liturgy. If you are speaking Arabic or some similar language it would be approperiate to use this word.

While Muslims are our brothers in so far as they are made in the image of God and claim to be descendants of Abraham, there belief concerning God is much closer to the Nestorian Hersey then to an Orthodox faith. Or in other words, if they worship the same God, and some might, it is in spite of their beliefs.