https://freerepublic.com/tag/themanhasballs/ en-us Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:38:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704133/posts The pope said things Muslims need to hear about faith and reason.It's a familiar spectacle: furious demands for an apology, threats, riots, violence. Anything can trigger so-called Muslim fury: a novel by a British-Indian writer, newspaper cartoons in a small Nordic country or, this past week, a talk on theology by the head of the Roman Catholic Church. In a lecture on "Faith and Reason" at the University of Regensburg in Germany, Benedict XVI cited one of the last emperors of Byzantium, Manuel II Paleologus. Stressing the 14th-century emperor's "startling brusqueness," the pope quoted him as saying: "Show me just... Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704133/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:38:58 GMT