Pope Benedict XVI's Address at Meeting for Interreligious Dialogue

[rest_in_thee]

As an appropriate follow up to my previous post regarding the Holy Father walking out of a meeting after a diatribe delivered by a radical sheik, here is the text of the speech the Holy Father had delivered, directly preceding the sheik's impromptu comments:

Comments

[rest_in_thee]

haha, oops, just a semi-colon as opposed to an l :) so it did an ;j-cut instead...

[underlankers]

God bless Benedict XVI, whatever his faults, I do believe he is what the Church needs right now: an intellectual who can counterbalance so much of the negativity out there.

[chordoflife]

True.. and I was pleasently surprised to hear that he had gone to the refugee camps and saw the conditions there, and spoke plainly about the Apartheid wall.

[underlankers]

There are some benefits to being a man of God even in modern society....