Word: christiane
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...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...TIME's story said, "The Roman Catholic Church's own record in the religious-mayhem department is hardly pristine," suggesting that the church has no business criticizing jihadist Islam. But right now Muslims are free to practice their faith in Christian-dominated nations, while non-Muslims in predominantly Islamic countries are severely, sometimes violently, restricted. The Pope is to be commended, not sneered at, for sticking his neck out for the sake of interfaith dialogue based on doctrine, reason and truth. David Pearson North Branford, Connecticut...
...Regensburg address. Faith is commonly known as a trust not based on logic or reason, but on a transpersonal relationship with a higher power. I would beg His Holiness to enunciate the connection between faith and reason in the context of humanity as a whole. Faith is neither Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish nor Buddhist, nor is it a monopoly of any one segment of the human race. It is also appalling that the 9/11 events-a crude, revengeful act by a few semi-educated individuals-has drawn the battle lines of a supposed clash of civilizations, allowing the Pope...
...explained that Pope Benedict XVI is challenging Muslims to confront hard truths: Islam indeed has a menacing aspect, and the Pope finally addressed it directly. Since the defeat of the Turks in Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent decline of Muslim power, jihadists have dreamed of reconquering the Christian West. Islam has an expansion policy, which is that every Muslim has a duty to spread the religion in the name of the Prophet. Criticized as a myopic hard-liner when elected, Benedict might become the Pope of progress in Christian-Muslim relations. Veith Ruehling Augsburg, Germany...
...Bukvaj's was among 20 families that kept the Christian-inspired tradition alive under communist rule-even his uncle, "a convinced comrade," set up a nativity each year. But while the once dominant Catholic Church has not seen much of a revival since democracy returned, the nativities have."This is something we've inherited from our forefathers," says Bukvaj. And the tradition is being happily embraced by new generations: a dozen kids in Trest are happily chiseling away in a youth-center workshop, as they have done since 1990, a year after the fall of communism...