Posted on 09/15/2006 6:42:59 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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I wonder if and how a "major impact" could occur in the Church of England. It denied papal authority WAY back. I doubt too many are ready to overturn his "holiness's" King Henry VIII's words. That is, they went their own way so long ago that the issue is moot -- my own opinion, of course.
The Episcopalian Church here in America seems to be having enough problems stemming from within.
I'm beginning to hear how the Pope is offending the Islamics. That is just too bad. The Pope's main job is to carry the Gospel. If the Muslims arer offended it is not the pontiff's fault. The fault lies in the flawed 9th Century teachings that that has been spoon fed to this captive audience. The Muslims need to get if fast and hard. The Christians and the rest of the world are offended at being the direct subject of apocalyptic fundamentalism.
They mean "bury the LEDE." "Lead," in journalism, means the lead story. "LEDE," means the introduction to a story which encapsulates the news. To "bury the LEDE" means to fail to tell the important news first.
Of course, so few non-journalists know that, and the blogosphere has brought in so many untrained would-be journalists, that the internet most commonly uses the word "lead" for "LEDE."
This story completely bungles the quote about "the truth of both." It doesn't mean the "truth" contained within Islam, but rather the truth about Islam, which is that it is an evil religion, whose only apparent good are the elements of Christianity which it borrows from and makes a mockery of.
There are no people more easily offended or humiliated than Arab muslims.
**In this case, the Times even got both angles into the headline: "Pope Assails Secularism, Adding Note on Jihad." Here is the rather tortured lead, which must have been a bear to write. **
This sounds anti-Catholic.
Learned something today.
Difference between lead and lede.
Thank you. Obviously this blog writer is acquainted with these two words.
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I wonder if the author of this piece has read the full text of Pope Benedict's speech:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html
He does mention the dread word "dialogue" in his address, because he is obviously setting the stage for serious debate on the matter. I say "dread" because "dialogue" has now come to mean feel-good moments where Christians go out and listen to other people tell us how horrible we are and then congratulate ourselves for having stood there and taken it and maybe even having done a little breast-beating as a special extra. I don't think the former is this pope's idea of "dialogue," and the Muslims have been advised of it.
You said it.
Well, "assails" is wrong, and secularism is misleading. The pope is against
the radical rationalism that is dominant in the West and the relativism that treats all relgion as basically the same and to be equally ignored in any case.
Neither the pope nor the radical Muslims accept this. The "Times" obviously does not understand the thinking of either.
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I do believe you are right. Prayers for our Pope. He is an inspiration.
Heh, I don't think Pope Benedict is into 'breast beating' in the modern multicultural sense.
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