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With “creation care” a growing environmental movement in American congregations, animal protection will hopefully gain religious notice. In the meantime, Catholic priests can look to the words of Pope Benedict XV, the current Pontiff??s namesake, who in 1915 enjoined priests to support the Italian SPCA, “that they may offer to the animals refuge from every suspicion of roughness, cruelty, or barbarism, and lead men to understand from the beauty of creation something of the infinite perfection of their Creator.” Lewis E. Bollard...
...spiritual level, many Muslim leaders have welcomed the courageous trip and condemned the rumored attempts on the Pontiff??s life. That action echoes the Pope’s important words in Ankara yesterday, claiming that Islam can indeed be a religion of peace. Moreover, it also brings Rome closer to Orthodox Christianity, as respected Patriarch Bartholomew I still resides in Istanbul, where he will receive Benedict today...
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