Oriana and the Pope

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 9/15/06 | Purple Mountains

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In the past day or so an interesting confluence of events happened that occasionally occurs and makes one want to keep trying. First we honor the life of Oriana Fallaci, that famous and courageous Italian writer, who devoted most of her last years to warning Europeans against the threat to European culture and freedom from the Islamic invasion that is taking place there. Many of her pleas were directed at Pope John Paul II, who was so instrumental in bringing down the Soviet empire, but who gave few outward signs that Islamic fascism greatly concerned him. Oriana died today of cancer in her home town of Florence, Italy.

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May Oriana rest in peace.

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Fallaci, an avowed atheist, nevertheless said she had great hope in the election of Joseph Ratzinger to the papal throne, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal: “I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.” I had asked Ms. Fallaci whether there was any contemporary leader she admired, and Pope Benedict XVI was evidently a man in whom she reposed some trust. “I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It’s that simple! There must be some human truth here that is beyond religion.” Writes Tunku Varadarajan […]The scant hopes that she has for the West she rests on [Benedict]…Last year, he wrote an essay titled “If Europe Hates Itself,” from which Ms. Fallaci reads this to me: “The West reveals . . . a hatred of itself, which is strange and can only be considered pathological; the West . . . no longer loves itself; in its own history, it now sees only what is deplorable and destructive, while it is no longer able to perceive what is great and pure.”

“Ecco!” she says. A man after her own heart. “Ecco!” http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/09/15/oriana-and-rosie-two-women-of-the-left/