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The only problem is that this never happened! Cardinal Ravisi never said it. What you have done is to quote a militantly anti-Catholic article misquoting the Cardinal's introduction to Pope Benedict's third volume on Jesus of Nazareth. In his remarks the Cardinal mentioned a cycle of violence in the middle east dating back thousands of years and cited Herrod's killing of the innocent among several examples. Apparently, mentioning the killing of the innocents, which the militantly ultra orthodox deny happened, is code for rationalizing the Holocaust. Shame on you and on those who wanted so desperately to believe this. I suggest you do a little honest journalism for yourself and research the alleged remarks before parroting any slander that serves your prejudices.

Lera deserves no shame for posting this article and it is outlandish to presume motives for doing so. If the Cardinal did not say what the article states, as you profess, then kindly point us to a link that gives his entire statement on the subject so others can decide for themselves whether or not he did. I noticed you failed to provide the proof. What "honest journalism" did you do before you jumped to the defense against anything that can be construed as negative for your church? Prejudice works both ways, does it not?

I would imagine that a statement as outrageous as that printed in the headline to this thread would have been pounced upon by the various mainstream media outlets.

Had a Catholic Cardinal said verbatim..."Israel is a baby-killer", you know that there would be no shortage of TV and internet outlets who would give it airtime.

I've seen exactly one link to this piece; at Jihad Watch, which is where I presume the poster first unearthed this gem.

I'm suspicious about the quotes because Meotti, the author of this piece has been in the news quite recently for plagiarism, so it wouldn't surprise me if he played fast and loose with the Cardinal's words.