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...definite maybe. It's unlikely that Benedict imagined the situation unraveling so rapidly when he sat down to hammer out his academic discourse, which argues that Islam lacks the Christian concept of a rational God and that Europe must defend its Christian identity. Still, says one Vatican insider, the Pope may very well have wanted to stir up the pot - and have it plenty warm just in time to deliver a more elaborate sermon on Islam and the West while he is visiting a nation with some 70 million Muslims. "It may be like his predecessor," says the Vatican source...
...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...
...Behind Benedict's Vatican Overhaul Though eyes are on his trip home, the Pope is (gradually) launching big changes back in the Roman Curia
...papacy was "dialogue." So committed was he to seeking common ground with leaders of different faiths that he all but institutionalized the process in 1986 by hosting the first of a series of interreligious gatherings in the medieval Italian town of Assisi. It was well known in Vatican circles that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, among the Pope's most loyal lieutenants, was lukewarm to the Assisi enthusiasm. The German Cardinal was, after all, among the world's most rigorous (and traditionalist) Catholic theologians, skeptical of any attempt to water down differences among faiths. Still, when that same theologian became Pope Benedict...