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...deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address...which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims,” the pope said five days after the speech at Regensburg, Germany. “These were in fact quotations from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought...
...Excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI's Speech Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept...
...viewpoint entitled "The Pontiff Has a Point" in this week's TIME, the headline on the piece by TIME's Rome correspondent Jeff Israely announces that Pope Benedict's "take on Islam," as propounded in his controversial speech last week in Regensburg, Germany, raises "tough truths." In the part of the speech that has become famous, the Pope was actually putting forth only one central "truth"- certainly a provocative one-that Christianity is beholden to reason while Islam is not. My own viewpoint is that this supposed "truth" rings false in a number of ways...
...Excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI's Speech Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept...
...block the election of the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the conclave of April 2005). But more to the point, the Pope has long trusted his own writing touch for major documents and speeches - and no one was going to edit his grand return to the University of Regensburg where he'd taught theology in the 1970s...