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The Pope’s challenge to Islam and the West (Analysis)

A significant point, I think, in this whole thing and the way it was reported: (Early on … )“[T]he head of the Vatican press office reminded reporters that the Pope had not been speaking about Islam” … Still, in his Regensburg speech the Holy Father clearly did intend to issue a challenge to the Islamic world.

Pope meets Islamic envoys, stresses common cause

Islamic envoys pleased with meeting

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