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  • BBC criticised on Pope documentary
    2 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Catholic Church has hit back over claims that Pope Benedict XVI played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests.
    One Archbishop labelled the BBC’s Panorama documentary as unwarranted, misleading and a "deeply prejudiced attack" against the Pope.
    The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham, said the Panorama programme misrepresented confidential Vatican papers to back up its claims.
    Speaking on behalf of the Bishops of England and (…)

  • Doco claims Pope in child abuse cover-up
    2 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A BRITISH documentary claimed today that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests.
    Over 20 years, the man formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced a secret 1962 document on how bishops should deal with allegations of child abuse which included a code of secrecy, enforceable by excommunication, the BBC Panorama investigation said.
    Father Tom Doyle, a canon solicitor reportedly sacked by the Vatican after criticising its (…)

  • Evil Ideology: Capitalism Or Islam?
    30 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "If you, Tony Blair really think that you can pose a challenge to Islam then allow the genuine Islamic movements to speak in your media, in line with your principle of ‘free’ speech, which we hear so much about. Give them an equal voice and show the world how intellectually bankrupt they are. What are you afraid of? Are you not the one who is intellectually enlightened and progressive, like some kind of modern Pharaoh, while we are backward from the period of the 7th century Arabia? This is (…)

  • Bush and Islam: Words versus Deeds
    28 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Nicola Nasser* The wide gap between U.S. President George W. Bush’s words and deeds vis-à-vis Islam and Muslims doomed to failure his speech at the United nations on September 19, which could neither appease Muslims nor pacify the ever growing Islamophobia. Hardly a week had passed since his speech than Winston Churchill - author, journalist, former Member of Parliament and grandson of the former British prime minister - was speaking at an American university to condemn “Radical (…)

  • WHACKOS!: Which group has killed more innocents throughout history?
    24 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This article is NOT intended to defend Muslim extremists, but....
    Let’s first put aside REAL Christians and REAL Muslims and REAL Judaists.
    That said, I’d like to ask a salient question in light of what is being argued by today’s world leaders, most notably by George W. Bush and his "gang".
    The question is simply this: Which group of whackos (defined as insincere ideologues and those disguised as "religious") has literally killed more innocents than any other?
    ’CHRISTIANS’? Well, (…)

  • A Catholic Stamp to an U.S. War
    23 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser* No mistake, the Successor of Saint Peter, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI has erred and the damage is done: His anti-Islam remarks are out and cannot be retracted, like bullets that cannot be retrieved once shot, adding a Catholic stamp to the Evangelist “Islam versus the West” justification for the U.S. neoconservative-led “WWIII on Islam.” (1) Coincidently the Pope and the U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday expressed “a (…)

  • Tolerating Intolerance by In the name of security, but not for its sake
    23 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Remi Kanazi
    Pope Benedict XVI is not having a good week and yet doesn’t seem to mind. Upsetting one out of every five people living today may be of no concern for the His Holiness-made evident by his half-hearted, “sorry my infallible words offended you” apology-but one can surely understand why some Muslims took offense to his recent speech. Were his comments his own words-maybe not-but it doesn’t take a scholar to comprehend the inappropriateness in referencing 14th century Byzantine (…)

  • In the name of security, but not for its sake
    22 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Amira Hass
    Six Palestinian churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip suffered damage and arson attempts in reaction to the words of Pope Benedict XVI. Palestinian spokesmen of all stripes condemned these attacks and said that the Palestinian nation - Christians and Muslims alike - is one, and is united in its struggle against the occupation. Reports on the attacks in the Palestinian media described the perpetrators as "unknown." In the Palestinian subtext, "unknown" implies "of (…)

  • Jesus Was a Revolutionary
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jesus Was a Revolutionary For David Ray Griffin
    Michael D. Morrissey Sept. 17, 2006
    May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/jesus.
    I had never looked at it that way. Jesus not Christ but the man. The fight is far from over. The emperor, naked as a jaybird, still rides our wizened hearts and laughs. We know we will be next at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, or right here in god’s country covered (…)

  • The Pope as Rabble-Rouser
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Pope’s recent remarks in Regensburg (cf. for example http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akjRPn44QqXE&refer=home were clearly intended to portray Islam as violent and irrational, in contrast to Christianity. There is no possible excuse for this. Such remarks are not only historically inaccurate, but demented and demonic, and further proof that we need a revolution in Christianity just as badly (or more so) as we do in politics, as David Griffin has argued in "Christian (…)