From the Times of Malta, with thanks to Ali Dashti: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has rebuffed comments by a top Vatican official that Muslim Turkey should drop its quest to join the European Union on cultural grounds, saying the papal state has no say in the matter. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, doctrinal head of the Roman […]
Catholic Church officials equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
A bracing dose of honesty and courage from a Catholic-Jewish meeting in Buenos Aires, acknowledging that anti-Zionist appeals are often thinly veiled jihadist anti-Semitism. This story says “the Catholic Church” condemned anti-Zionism, but it isn’t clear who actually signed the document, and what weight it has. From Haaretz: The Catholic Church condemned anti-Zionism as a […]
Sudanese bishop: “The challenge of Islamism is much worse than communism. Something the next pope will have to fully face”
Cesare Mazzolari, Bishop of Rumbek, Sudan, is unusually forthright among Catholic bishops about the challenge of radical Islam. From Chiesa, with thanks to Nicolei: Q. – Do you convert many Muslims? A. – “Absolutely not. Getting close to Islamic people is like giving them the death penalty Those that convert freely are forced to flee. […]
Vatican: Prison Abuse Said Bigger to U.S. Than 9/11
Lajolo The Vatican foreign minister thinks that the prisoner abuse scandal was worse than the wanton murder of 3,000 people. Maybe Dan Schutte or the St. Louis Jesuits can whip out a new guitar hymn called “Moral Myopia” for this Sunday’s Masses. From AP, with thanks to LGF: ROME – The scandal of prisoner abuses […]
Catholic moral confusion
Joseph D’Hippolito provides an excellent summation of how the Catholic Church, at least at the official level, has thus far failed to come up with even a remotely adequate response to the challenge of modern-day Islamic jihad. In the article, also, he quotes a perceptive, sad but true remark made here at Jihad Watch by […]
Muslim Activist Sues Pope, Cardinal
Kissing the Qur’an probably won’t help this time Adel Smith is trying to make Christianity illegal in Italy. The statements quoted below from the Pope and Ratzinger are merely expressions of the Christian Faith. If this most frivolous of all frivolous lawsuits goes forward, it should also render illegal Islamic statements about Muhammad’s being the […]
Dhimmitude at the Vatican
Joseph D’Hippolito recaps the recent furor over Cardinal Renato Martino’s remarks pitying Saddam Hussein, and their larger meaing, in the Jerusalem Post: “Why would a Roman Catholic cardinal who leads a papal commission express public sympathy for a murderous, sadistic tyrant? “Cardinal Renato Martino unintentionally motivated thoughtful people to ask that question after his remarks […]
Cardinal: Christians Second-Class in Muslim Lands
Few non-Muslims in America seem to recognize the realities of the institutionalized oppression that non-Muslims must endure under Islamic law. But the Vatican seems to be becoming quite aware of these realities: “Too many Islamic countries treat their Christian minorities as second-class citizens and bar them from building churches while Western states let their Muslims […]
The Vatican Speaks Out Against Dhimmitude
Many (if not most) of you have already seen this at LGF, but I had been planning to put it up already, and it is so significant that I didn’t want to let it go by unremarked. La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine in Rome that enjoys semi-official status in the Catholic Church, has published […]