Word: papally
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...difficult for any sensitive person to relate to the papal view of faith as brought forth in his 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...
...Pope "prayed like a Muslim." The mosque visit will go down as a watershed in a papacy that just two months earlier had nearly drowned in a speech critical of Islam. Benedict, long doubtful of different faiths praying together, got lost in the moment. Don't expect such papal adventures to happen often in the future, but as an old Italian Vatican hand put it last week: "Traveling changes people...
EFFECT Helped decrease Jewish-Catholic tensions after a previous papal document apologized on behalf of Christianity's errant members but not for any acts of the church...
...Papal trips are often as much about what is not said and done as the words and gestures actually delivered by the Roman visitor and his local hosts. As Pope Benedict XVI's four-day trip to Turkey drew to a close Friday, here is an initial tally of what did and didn't happen on this most delicate visit...
...Tally: Benedict may have had no choice but to play nice, but he is still searching for his voice on Islam. Perhaps by taking off his papal slippers and stepping into a mosque, he has begun to find his footing...