Posted on 09/19/2006 1:11:33 PM PDT by Pyro7480
“This week the Catholic Church has been on the receiving end of evil and inhumane threats and acts of violence. We must meet these challenges with prayer and strength in solidarity with our pope....’ states prominent Roman Catholic Priest.
(Front Royal, VA)—The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, issued the following response to the recent torrent of hostility directed at Pope Benedict XVI by Mohammedan jihadists.
“Human Life International has launched a new website to bring all Christians together in pray for our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI in our moment of trial: http://www.hli.org/pope_benedict
“The great debate between Christianity and Mohammedanism is reaching a crisis point. This week the Catholic Church has been on the receiving end of evil and inhumane threats and acts of violence. We must meet these challenges with prayer and strength in solidarity with our pope.”
“For his strength and well being in this critical hour we ask all Christians to offer prayers and supplication (1 Tim 2:1-4) on behalf of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI that he may continue to shepherd Christ’s flock out of a culture of death and into the Culture of Life.”
Personally, I like the e-mailed version better.
Catholic ping!
I'm not Catholic but I'll support Catholicism over Mohammedism any day of the week.
Is there is any way we can keep the media from running to every hothead that open his mouth?
Three cheers for the Pope who has b***s of steel.
You think Fr. Euteneuer is a "hothead"?
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I wouldn't even categorize it as that. During the Middle Ages, there was more innovation in Europe than in the Islamic world.
The point I made wasn't about innovation. It was about the Middle Age connection between religion & violence. The Roman Catholic Church moved beyond that kind of thinking, while much of Islam clearly has not.
Have you read the original speech? The central theme was a criticism of Western Rationalism and scientism. The pope seeks a return to the medieval synthesis of faith and reason. Islam represents extreme fideism as opposed to the opposite extreme of (Enlightenment) Rationalism, which excludes the supernatural a priori.
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