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To: SumProVita
Continued negativity toward Pope Francis is not prompted by the HOLY Spirit.

Go tell that to Francis.

In 2005, then Pope Benedict quoted from an obscure medieval text which declared that the Prophet Mohammed, founder of the Islamic faith, was "evil and inhuman", enraging the Muslim population and causing attacks on churches throughout the world before an apology was issued.

Reacting within days to the statements, speaking through a spokesman to Newsweek Argentina, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio declared his "unhappiness" with the statements, made at the University of Regensburg in Germany, and encouraged many of his subordinates with the Church to do the same.

"Pope Benedict's statement don't reflect my own opinions", the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires declared. "These statements will serve to destroy in 20 seconds the careful construction of a relationship with Islam that Pope John Paul II built over the last twenty years".

Pope Francis' run-in with Benedict XVI over the Prophet Mohammed

62 posted on 02/22/2014 7:45:27 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

...declared his “unhappiness” with the statements, made at the University of Regensburg in Germany, and encouraged many of his subordinates with the Church to do the same....

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Says who?


63 posted on 02/22/2014 7:47:07 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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