[khnyny]

God bless Pope Benedict.

[Gamecock]

Must resist urge to post obvious pic....

[ELS]

bttt

[Michael Goldsberry]

"How do you negotiate with someone who's starting point is your death?" -- Rush Limbaugh

[cpforlife.org]

Excellent news.

I hope Vatican security is prepared.

[little jeremiah]

Maybe not list material, but great. I hope there's a link to his entire lecture down the thread, I'd like to read it.

[backtothestreets]

Watching the ABS mini series on 9-11 gave me reason to pause, reflect and see a difference in how Christians perceive God, and how Muslims perceive God. Christians pray that bad events will not happen and for protection from enemies. Muslims pray that bad events befall their enemies, especially by their own hand.

[GunnyHartman]

Someone from the EU best assign this man some extra security...what the heck am I thinking...Mr Bush, let's get some Secret Service guys over to the Vatican.

[Deo volente]

Dialogue is going to be difficult, since they don't believe in God.

They believe in something called "Allah", who wants them to kill everything non-Muslim, preferably in the most cruel and brutal ways imaginable.

[Gritty]

The Pope doesn't need to open a dialogue with these people,... he needs to perform a mass exorcism!

[Bommer]

the concept of an Islamic "holy war" is unreasonable and against God's nature.

It is but these people do not worship a God. They worship Satan himself! Praying 6 times a day to a borg cube does not make a God!

[vrwcagent0498]

Waiting on Ibraham Hooper and the CAIR Gang™ to demand an apology from the pope ...5, 4, 3, 2....

[NYer]

FULL TEXT OF POPE'S ADDRESS

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REMINDER TO ALL

The Pope will make an official visit to Turkey in November, at the invitation of President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.

The Pope's visit will coincide with the feast of St. Andrew, the patron of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, on November 30. Shortly after Pope Benedict's election, Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I had invited the Pope to join him for the celebration of that feast day. The Pontiff had accepted the invitation, but his wish to make the trip in 2005 was thwarted by the Turkish government's reluctance to issue a quick invitation. Later-- having signaled its annoyance with the Orthodox leader for issuing an invitation without prior consultation, and perhaps also its displeasure with remarks that the Pontiff had made criticizing Turkey's bid for entry into the European Union-- the Ankara regime suggested that Pope Benedict would be welcome to visit in 2006. The official announcement of the papal trip comes just as Church officials are still mourning the death of Father Andrea Santoro, an Italian missionary priest who was killed in Turkey on February 5, apparently by an Islamic fanatic. The slain priest had only recently written to Pope Benedict, asking the Holy Father to visit his little parish in the Black Sea port town of Trabzon, during his stay in Turkey.

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The pope's speech today, is a direct message to the Muslims in Turkey.

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[Barnacle]

Pope Invites Muslims to Dialogue

I don't know where Dialogue is. But, I hope it has tight security.

?;^T

[Robert Drobot]

"The Pope, who used the terms "jihad" and "holy war" in his lecture, added in his own words: "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul".

His Holiness has been denied a study of the Koran. The religion of hate, and conversion by the sword. There is only a false god in the cult of the muslims, the Vicar of Christ sitting across from a muslim is tantamount to dining with Satan.

[Alouette]

based on the premise that the concept of an Islamic "holy war" is unreasonable and against God's nature.

Muslims will agree and join the "dialogue" because it is an opportunity to practice DAWAH and TAQQIYA

All due respect to Pope Benedict, but it is impossible to hold a meaningful "dialogue" with people whose religion tells them it is OK to lie to the infidel.

[Labyrinthos]

Reuters can't help but interject opinion into what is a pretty good article given the source:

"Many Islamic leaders have denounced Muslim radicals for using violence, saying this perverts their faith, but a minority of extremists says the Koran commands them to use it."

Reuter's, of course, can't actually name any Muslim leaders who actually think this way. That's because they only exist in the same world as the tooth fairy and leprechauns.

[Aquinasfan]

Pope Benedict invited Muslims on Tuesday to join a dialogue of cultures based on the premise that the concept of an Islamic "holy war" is unreasonable and against God's nature.

In a major lecture at Regensburg University, where he taught theology between 1969 to 1977, Benedict said Christianity is tightly linked to reason and contrasted this view with those who believe in spreading their faith by the sword.

Hooray for the pope!

But I expect a media blackout and chirping crickets from the Mohammedans.

[petro2006]

I think people should not misunderstand what is exactly quoted, The Pope simply quoted from the history, if this seems a concern to some why not welcome the dialog.