Vatican Speaks
Holy jumping priests Batman ... (referance to the dark knight who has joined the battle against Islamofacist camel jockies). It is about time someone who is not a polotician and political correct activists spoke out on this one sided issue of poor offended Muslems.
SO here it is statements made by the vatican that are common sense. Well maybe not to every one but about time anyway the church spoke out against these punks from the middle east. (NOW IF WE COULD ONLY GET THE CHURCH TO SEE THE LIGHT IN ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND PROTECTING LAW BREAKERS.)
PARIS (Reuters) - After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities.
Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims were right to be outraged when Western newspapers reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet, including one with a bomb in his turban. Most Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.
(OK SO THEY STILL WANT TO PLAY POLITICAL CORRECT GAMES WITH SAYING A MERE CARTOON IS OFFENSIVE)
After criticizing both the cartoons and the violent protests in Muslim countries that followed, the Vatican this week linked the issue to its long-standing concern that the rights of other faiths are limited, sometimes severely, in Muslim countries.
Vatican prelates have been concerned by recent killings of two Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria. Turkish media linked the death there to the cartoons row. At least 146 Christians and Muslims have died in five days of religious riots in Nigeria.
"If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us," Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.
"We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts," Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.
Reciprocity -- allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely -- is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.
Vatican diplomats argue that limits on Christians in some Islamic countries are far harsher than restrictions in the West that Muslims decry, such as France's ban on headscarves in state schools.
(THATS A NO BRAINER. THE EXECUTION AND GENOCIDE OF NONMULIMS IS JUST A LITTLE HARSHER)
Saudi Arabia bans all public expression of any non-Muslim religion and sometimes arrests Christians even for worshipping privately. Pakistan allows churches to operate but its Islamic laws effectively deprive Christians of many rights.
Both countries are often criticized at the United Nations Human Rights Commission for violating religious freedoms.
"ENOUGH TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK"
Pope Benedict signaled his concern on Monday when he told the new Moroccan ambassador to the Vatican that peace can only be assured by "respect for the religious convictions and practices of others, in a reciprocal way in all societies."
He mentioned no countries by name. Morocco is tolerant of other religions, but like all Muslim countries frowns on conversion from Islam to another faith.
(MISTAKE HE SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THE COUNTRIES BY NAME.)
As often happens at the Vatican, lower-level officials have been more outspoken than the Pope and his main aides.
"Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It's our duty to protect ourselves," Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican's supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa. Jesus told his followers to "turn the other cheek" when struck.
"The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights," he said.
Bishop Rino Fisichella, head of one of the Roman universities that train young priests from around the world, told Corriere della Sera the Vatican should speak out more.
"Let's drop this diplomatic silence," said the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. "We should put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities."
YES VERY TRUE. THE LAST TIME THE ARAB WORLD HAD THEIR ACT TOGETHER WAS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF , WHOA NELLY .... A WHITE MAN FROM EUROPE .... SIR LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. THEY DEFINATELY NEED TO FACE UP TO THEIR WORLD COMMITMENTS. A PHRASE I USE THAT SHOULD RELATE TO THE ONE WORLD OREDER UTOPIANS. MASS GENOCIDE OF CHRISTIANS IN THE SUDAN. LIES AND ABUSE TOWARDS A LEGITAMATE JEWISH STATE. AND YES DAMNIT IT IS ABOUT TIME THE CHURCH SPOKE UP FOR ITS PARISHENERS. AFTER ALL THEY ARE THE ONES BEING MURDERED BY MUSLEMS. THOSE CHRISTIANS AND THE INNOCENT!
SO here it is statements made by the vatican that are common sense. Well maybe not to every one but about time anyway the church spoke out against these punks from the middle east. (NOW IF WE COULD ONLY GET THE CHURCH TO SEE THE LIGHT IN ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND PROTECTING LAW BREAKERS.)
PARIS (Reuters) - After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities.
Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims were right to be outraged when Western newspapers reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet, including one with a bomb in his turban. Most Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.
(OK SO THEY STILL WANT TO PLAY POLITICAL CORRECT GAMES WITH SAYING A MERE CARTOON IS OFFENSIVE)
After criticizing both the cartoons and the violent protests in Muslim countries that followed, the Vatican this week linked the issue to its long-standing concern that the rights of other faiths are limited, sometimes severely, in Muslim countries.
Vatican prelates have been concerned by recent killings of two Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria. Turkish media linked the death there to the cartoons row. At least 146 Christians and Muslims have died in five days of religious riots in Nigeria.
"If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us," Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.
"We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts," Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.
Reciprocity -- allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely -- is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.
Vatican diplomats argue that limits on Christians in some Islamic countries are far harsher than restrictions in the West that Muslims decry, such as France's ban on headscarves in state schools.
(THATS A NO BRAINER. THE EXECUTION AND GENOCIDE OF NONMULIMS IS JUST A LITTLE HARSHER)
Saudi Arabia bans all public expression of any non-Muslim religion and sometimes arrests Christians even for worshipping privately. Pakistan allows churches to operate but its Islamic laws effectively deprive Christians of many rights.
Both countries are often criticized at the United Nations Human Rights Commission for violating religious freedoms.
"ENOUGH TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK"
Pope Benedict signaled his concern on Monday when he told the new Moroccan ambassador to the Vatican that peace can only be assured by "respect for the religious convictions and practices of others, in a reciprocal way in all societies."
He mentioned no countries by name. Morocco is tolerant of other religions, but like all Muslim countries frowns on conversion from Islam to another faith.
(MISTAKE HE SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THE COUNTRIES BY NAME.)
As often happens at the Vatican, lower-level officials have been more outspoken than the Pope and his main aides.
"Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It's our duty to protect ourselves," Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican's supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa. Jesus told his followers to "turn the other cheek" when struck.
"The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights," he said.
Bishop Rino Fisichella, head of one of the Roman universities that train young priests from around the world, told Corriere della Sera the Vatican should speak out more.
"Let's drop this diplomatic silence," said the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. "We should put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities."
YES VERY TRUE. THE LAST TIME THE ARAB WORLD HAD THEIR ACT TOGETHER WAS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF , WHOA NELLY .... A WHITE MAN FROM EUROPE .... SIR LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. THEY DEFINATELY NEED TO FACE UP TO THEIR WORLD COMMITMENTS. A PHRASE I USE THAT SHOULD RELATE TO THE ONE WORLD OREDER UTOPIANS. MASS GENOCIDE OF CHRISTIANS IN THE SUDAN. LIES AND ABUSE TOWARDS A LEGITAMATE JEWISH STATE. AND YES DAMNIT IT IS ABOUT TIME THE CHURCH SPOKE UP FOR ITS PARISHENERS. AFTER ALL THEY ARE THE ONES BEING MURDERED BY MUSLEMS. THOSE CHRISTIANS AND THE INNOCENT!
