I cannot verify the authenticity of the information provided there concerning their claim of having a transcript of the interview --- but I had already alluded to that point previously in this thread --- so what is your point?
Are you trying to say there should at this time be reasonable doubt that the "kissed" book was not a Koran, on the strength of the information not being sourced from the Vatican?
Phhpt!
The FR contributor which I also addressed this reply to, in post #34, gave a link to and provided text of (from one "father joe") what looks to me to be sane and reasonable response to the controversy which was circulating after the news of the meeting, and the photo was originally published --
Check it out. You may find it edifying.
Yes, then you would have read that "CatholicCulture.org is run by a non-profit (501 c 3) corporation, Trinity Communications. The board and officers of Trinity Communications are Catholic laymen"
They do not purport to be the source of record that your post attempts to put them as -- what they have stated is their point of view or opinion.
For your post to use them as a source of record is incorrect.
Fr. Joe also puts forth his point of view.
I've not read the official statement and neither have you -- to quote from others, is as valid as quoting from CBS about say Cain or Palin -- it's better to get the facts from the source. in the absence of that, everything else is speculation