On French riots, Pope sounds like the Kerner Commission

View From the Right ^ | December 22, 2005 | Lawrence Auster

[Tax-chick]

Of course it has a thick sugar coating of diplomacy on it.

That's definitely true ... but there's a suggestion of a dig at secular amorality there at the end, too.

I agree with you - people are not going to "assimilate" unless the new culture is clearly better than what they've got. I certainly don't want the life modern Europe holds up as ideal.

[mhx]

I'm looking for a report on the story that hasn't been "filtered" by the opinion of the Associated Press, so we can see more of the context. If anyone finds one please post it here.

[mhx]

His full remarks in French are here. http://peres-blancs.cef.fr/misna133.htm Admittedly, there's not a lot more context, so I could be off base in my interpretation -- it doesn't look like the AP really thrashed the story too badly.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I agree. Paul II kissed muslim savage ass in Nigeria, never spoke out about christian churches being burned and christians being murderd simply because they are christians all over the middle-east.

[Rockingham]

Me too. And perhaps even worse is the Pope's appointment of gay supportive clergy to posts in Rome and San Francisco. I fear that post-Vatican II institutional malaise, drift, and self-deception may yet kill the Church.

[Clemenza]

Otto Kerner was a co-Ethnic of Benedict XVI, although a Lutheran I believe.

Here's hoping that Papa Ratzi doesn't share any of Otto's other proclivity for graft.