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I WAS tempted to defend Pope Benedict XVI's comments about Islam on the grounds that we journalists always profess to admire leaders who take risks to say what they really think. In a lecture last week in Germany, Benedict said what he really thought.
The irony is that the pontiff's comments came in a lecture that took Islam and all other religious faiths more seriously than do many of the pope's secular critics. The whole point of the talk, after all, was to defend the rationality of faith in God.See the full content of this document
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Pope's Mistake Creates Problems
But there is no getting around it: The pope made a big mistake, creating problems for himself, his church and the West. He spoke in the voice of the academic theologian he once was and not as the leader of one ...
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