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As Francis heads to Egypt, Benedict reiterates Regensburg
Rorate Caeli ^ | April 28, 2017

Posted on 04/29/2017 4:52:40 AM PDT by NYer

It can hardly be called a coincidence that as Pope Francis heads to Egypt, no doubt to promote "dialogue" with Islam, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has several days ago published a short letter to a Polish conference on his thought on Church-State relations, in which he echoes his thesis from his famous Regensburg address, that Islam and violence are inherently linked because of its detachment from reason itself.


As Francis prepares to repeat his view to persecuted Egyptian Christians that "Muslim terrorism does not exist," and again that it is not "right to identify Islam with violence," Benedict does not hesitate to identify by name "Islamist movements" as "radicalisms" which threaten "the future of our Continent", which "leads our time into an explosive situation, the consequences of which we experience every day."

Below you may find the complete letter in English translation.

Benedict XVI
Pope emeritus
Vatican City
15 April 2017

Distinguished Mr. President of the Republic of Poland!
Eminences and Excellencies!
Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen!

With great and profound emotion, gratitude and joy, I learned the news that, on the occasion of my 90th birthday, with the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, high representatives of the state and ecclesial authorities of Poland will meet for a scientific conference on the theme: "The concept of the State in the perspective of the teaching of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI".

The chosen theme brings together state and ecclesial authorities to dialogue about an essential question for the future of our Continent. The clash between radically atheistic conceptions of the State and the emergence of a radically religious state in the Islamist movements, leads our time into an explosive situation, the consequences of which we experience every day. These radicalisms urgently demand that we develop a convincing conception of the State that sustains the clash with these challenges and can overcome them.

In the travail of the last half century, with Bishop-Witness Cardinal Wyszyński and with Pope Saint John Paul II, Poland has given humanity two great figures, who not only reflected on this question, but have brought to it their own suffering and lived experience, and thus they continue to point the way to the future.

With my cordial gratitude for the work that their Excellencies propose in this circumstance, I impart to them all my paternal blessing,

Benedict XVI​


TOPICS: Catholic; Islam; Moral Issues; Theology
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1 posted on 04/29/2017 4:52:40 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
The following article, published in 2010, delves into the history of this.

Brian Saint-Paul:Islam exploded out of Arabia as a kind of nomadic religion. In its earliest generations, it was less interested in philosophical issues than it was with general expansion and succession. But that changed. How?

When Islam Abandoned Reason: A Conversation with Robert R. Reilly

Catholic ping!

2 posted on 04/29/2017 4:53:06 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

The REAL pope, not the pretend Marxist usurper.


3 posted on 04/29/2017 5:06:23 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: sneakers

Bttt


4 posted on 04/29/2017 5:15:51 AM PDT by sneakers (It's DEMOCRAT - and not DemocratIC. There's nothing Democratic about the DEMOCRAT party)
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To: NYer

Bookmark


5 posted on 04/29/2017 5:24:12 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: NYer

Thanks, NYer. Hope to catch up with this later.


7 posted on 04/29/2017 6:15:44 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: NYer

Benedict’s “resignation” looks more and more suspicious every day.


8 posted on 04/29/2017 6:20:01 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: NYer

Why doesn’t Benedict move to Avignon, France and make it official? There’s a nice “fixer upper” papal palace there he could have for a song.


9 posted on 04/29/2017 6:27:43 AM PDT by Reily
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To: NYer
It's too bad that so many thousands of Americans are still living in Saudi Arabia, as the West is still so dependent on Saudi petroleum and natural gas. Hard to be ENEMIES with our only business friend in the middle east.

I learned the habit of daily Mass in my little camp NAJMAH, thanks to my Muslim boss. The one who objected to my going to Sunday Mass (Sunday was a work day; Thursdays and Fridays were the "weekend.") was my Catholic Indian co-worker. HE "told on me" to my Muslim boss, Mohammad Hussein. It was my boss who told us: "Harry, God is number one. There is always time for God. CloudMountain" can go to pray whenever she wants."

When we finally returned home to the USA I started daily Mass and still do so today.

People are all different. There are wonderful folks and jerks/aholes in every culture, regardless of their faith or culture. We all know that.
The USA has been in Saudi Arabia since the 1920's. That is 100+ years, a LONG relationship with the Saudis.

10 posted on 04/29/2017 7:14:21 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: NYer

The ImPopester is preparing his flock for the slaughter.


11 posted on 04/29/2017 7:19:46 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: I want the USA back
This pope is ashamed of being Christian ..."

He's Christian?

12 posted on 04/29/2017 7:25:58 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America.)
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To: NYer

Uh-oh. Trouble back at the ranch.


13 posted on 04/29/2017 9:20:40 AM PDT by onedoug
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It is good we have a pope.

O Lord, Jesus Christ, give Thy servant Pope Benedict XVI long years ahead.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.


14 posted on 04/29/2017 11:08:16 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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Amen to your prayer.


15 posted on 04/29/2017 11:46:16 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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