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...Holy Father is very sorry that some passages of his speech may have sounded offensive to the sensibilities of Muslim believers." VATICAN SECRETARY OF STATE TARCISIO BERTONE, reading a statement of apology after the Pope's remarks sparked a worldwide furor...
...Pope's PR Machinery Broke Down If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate...
...Pope's PR Machinery Broke Down If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate...
...Pope's PR Machinery Broke Down If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate...
...Whether or not the Pope imagined the furor his words would spark - and many would argue it wasn't hard to foresee - the Vatican's attempts at damage control may be a little too late. The speech has already elicited harsh denunciations from political and religious leaders from Pakistan and Iraq to Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. In Turkey, the home of Pope John Paul II's would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, the comments struck such a nerve that they managed to erase old distinctions between conservative Muslims, including leaders of the ruling Justice and Development party, and secular...