It’s been well enough established by several sources that the Pope was indeed kissing the Quran. While I’m sure that’s rather embarrassing to Catholics at large as is the declaration by the Catholic Church that the Muslims serve the same god as they do at some point they will understand the significance of both of those statements and gestures.
It sure appears that way!
The question that remains is WHY!!!
You often see a knee jerk reaction by RCs when faced with any thing negative against their object of devotion, which includes repeated unsubstantiated denials to even calling the poster a liar. Yet others actually charge that Rome is unfaithful, and thus belong to another class of RCs.
And while some want to canonize JP2 and defend him against any attacks, other RCs engage in the latter to different degrees, which was the subject of this post:
One example of this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2966953/posts?page=3876#3876