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Barack Obama told Pope Benedict today that he wants to reduce abortions in the US. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict on Friday that he would do everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Vatican said. Obama and Benedict ...
Barack Obama, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Abortion, Stem Cells
When the “Chief Islamic Judge” of the “moderate” Palestinian Authority launched a vicious tirade against Israel at a meeting attended by Pope Benedict today (even though he wasn’t scheduled to speak at all), the Pope walked out. Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, launched ...
Jordanian Muslim leaders welcomed Pope Benedict to their country by whining and complaining about his speech that urged reconciliation between Christians and Muslims. And of course, the Pope has already issued the apology they’re demanding. AMMAN (AFP) — Jordanian clerics expressed disappointment that Pope Benedict XVI in an address ...
Pope Benedict, Jordan, Amman, Islam, RoP
Leave it to the Palestinians to try to turn a visit from Pope Benedict into a propaganda show: IDF bans Palestinians from hosting pope next to West Bank fence. A Palestinian official says the Palestinian Authority has scrapped plans to host Pope Benedict XVI next week on a stage ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Propaganda, Security Barrier, Pope Benedict
This is good news about a very bad situation—a sign that the Catholic Church is starting to get serious about dealing with the corruption that has wreaked so much damage in so many lives: Vatican to investigate scandalized religious order. NEW YORK – Pope Benedict XVI has taken the ...
catholic church, Pope Benedict, Corruption, Child Abuse, Religion
In an unusual letter to the world’s Catholic bishops, Pope Benedict has acknowledged Vatican mistakes in the case of Holocaust denier Richard Williamson. Benedict said the controversy resulted from an “unforeseen mishap” that made his efforts of “mercy” toward the excommunicated bishops seem like a repudiation of reconciliation between ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
Here’s a look at the Vatican’s walking-on-eggshells attitude toward Darwin’s theory of evolution, and their apparent dismissal of the “intelligent design” form of creationism: Reconciling Science, Religion. “The ongoing and vigorous engagement of the Catholic Church with evolutionary theory reflects, in my opinion, a fluid and dynamic pathway that ...
charles darwin, catholic church, Vatican, Pope Benedict, Intelligent Design, discovery institute, Creationism, Evolution
The “Bishop” Richard Williamson Holocaust denial story is not going away: Bishop’s apology for Holocaust denial fails to placate Vatican and Germany. BISHOP RICHARD Williamson, whose denial of the Holocaust provoked an international outcry, could face further problems in Germany and in his strained relations with the Holy See ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken to Pope Benedict about Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson, but the Pope isn’t budging. Williamson is still being reinstated. (CNN) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned Pope Benedict XVI Sunday over a Holocaust denier whom the pope welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
It took a worldwide outcry, but the Vatican is now saying that Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson must recant. VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Wednesday demanded that a prelate who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted as a bishop into the Roman Catholic Church. It ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling on Pope Benedict to clarify his Holocaust stance, as the controversy over Bishop Richard Williamson’s Holocaust denial refuses to go away. Her demand came amid increasing outrage among Germany’s Roman Catholic leaders over the pope’s decision to lift the excommunication of British-born Richard ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson has apologized to Pope Benedict for causing him “distress.” Williamson’s apology came in the form of a letter, dated Jan. 28, to Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, head of the Vatican office that deals with the Society of St. Pius X and other traditionalist groups ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
It looks like Pope Benedict’s initiative to bring the Society of St. Pius X back into the Catholic Church was ill-advised. ROME - A priest in an ultraconservative society recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI has defended a bishop in the group and joined him in expressing doubts about ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
The Holocaust-denying British bishop recently “un-excommunicated” by Pope Benedict is now under a gag order from his superiors in the Fraternity of St. Pius X. Statement of His Excellency Bernard Fellay, Superior of the Fraternity of St. Pius X We have become aware of an interview released by Bishop ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
This is a disgrace. Pope Benedict should rescind the reinstatement of Bishop Richard Williamson. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on Sunday slammed a Holocaust-denying English bishop whose ex-communication has been cancelled by Pope Benedict XVI. “It is scandalous that someone of ...
Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Religion
Interesting messages from the Vatican this week, dealing with the interface between science and religion: Evolution fine but no apology to Darwin. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles Darwin for ...
Religion, catholic church, Vatican, Pope Benedict, Evolution, charles darwin
Pope Benedict visited Ground Zero today to pray for the victims of the 9/11 atrocities, and the Associated Press uses it as an excuse to bring up their favorite subject: Benedict has been critical of harsh interrogation methods, telling a meeting of the Vatican’s office for social justice last ...
LGF, Pope Benedict, Pope, Ground Zero, 9/11, Torture, Associated Press, Media Bias
The radical Islamic front groups operating in the United States are declining to meet with Pope Benedict during his visit: US Muslim group declines to meet pope. NEW YORK - Unease with Pope Benedict XVI’s approach to Islam has led a U.S. Muslim group to decline joining in an ...
LGF, Pope Benedict, Radical Islam, Militant Islam, al-marayati, MPAC, Muzammil Siddiqi, Siddiqi
Topics related to Pope Benedict have triggered lizardoid flame wars that have laid waste to more than one thread, so this looks like an interesting week coming up: Pope to attack might is right notion at UN. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Pope Benedict is unlikely to discuss specific world ...
The public relations tools of radical Islam spring into action: Scholar denounces Muslim baptism. A Muslim scholar involved in high-level dialogue with the Vatican has denounced the Pope’s baptism on Saturday of a prominent Italian Muslim convert. Aref Ali Nayed, the head of Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, ...
Pope Benedict has poked a real finger in the eye of radical Islam with this very high-profile conversion. Forecast: extended seething, with a 70% chance of riots. Death threat warnings are in effect. VATICAN CITY (AP) - Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and ...
Pope Benedict has irritated a lot of people with his decision to include a revised version of an old Good Friday prayer in the modern mass: ‘Insulting to Jews’: Leading German Rabbi Condemns Pope’s Good Friday Prayer. Let’s try to discuss this without the internet equivalent of WMDs, shall we? ...
Here’s something you don’t see every day. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah held a historic meeting on Tuesday and discussed the situation of minority Christians in the Islamic country where the Vatican wants them to have more freedom. At the first meeting between ...
A top Vatican official has replied to that Muslim letter that many see as a veiled threat, by making some pointed comments about the one-sided “peace” they’re offering: Cardinal signals firm Vatican stance with Muslims. PARIS (Reuters) - The top Vatican official for Islam has praised a novel Muslim ...
Melanie Phillips has read that heavily promoted letter from Muslim scholars, and she had the same impression I did—that far from being a “message of peace,” it’s an offer to submit or die. First and foremost, it purports to be a plea to Muslims and Christians to make peace ...