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To: a_Turk
No reply as the gentle sound of the cold evening drizzle splatters on the window. A truck changes gears on the highway several miles away, and there's still no word from west cestrian.
18 posted on 03/20/2002 9:17:06 PM PST by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Mortimer Snavely; a_turk
What do you mean? west cestrian's point is perfectly clear: though the Turkish government's behavior in protecting its own citizens is praiseworthy, the performance of the Catholic Church in working tirelessly for the benefit of people to whom it had no obligation under law (not human law, anyway) is heroic.

. In an era when the Church was notorious for turning its back on Jewish suffering, the Vatican's representative in Istanbul, archbishop Joseph Roncalli,...

More Jews were saved by the Catholic Church than all other agencies combined. Radler's disgusting ignorance over the Church's wartime role extends even to things as small as Achbishop Roncalli's first name, which was Angelo, not Joseph.

19 posted on 03/20/2002 9:34:42 PM PST by Romulus
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