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Religions > Atheism |
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"johac" |
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31 Mar 2007 05:51:34 PM |
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Pope's aide blasts media coverage of church |
Are they saying that the MSM has an atheist bias? It occurs to me that
the Vatican is starting to sound more and more like BushCo. At least
they haven't invaded anybody ..... yet.
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Pope's aide blasts media coverage of church
Sat Mar 31, 10:39 AM ET
A top aide to Pope Benedict has blasted the media for highlighting the
Vatican's views on sex while maintaining a "deafening silence" about
charity work done by thousands of Catholic organizations around the
world.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who as secretary of state is effectively the
Vatican's prime minister, also accused the media of deliberately
misinterpreting the Pope's speeches, especially his Regensburg address
last September which angered Muslims.
"We face an extremely grave problem. The church's messages are subject
to a type of manipulation and falsification by some western media,"
Bertone said in an interview with Le Figaro Magazine published in Paris
on Saturday.
"I see a fixation by some journalists on moral topics, such as abortion
and homosexual unions, which are certainly important issues but
absolutely do not constitute the thinking and work of the church," he
said.
"Why this deafening silence?" he asked. "We have to say the press does
not write much about the social and charity work of thousands of
Catholic organizations around the world."
Bertone said journalists had twisted the Pope's Regensburg address -- in
which he quoted a Byzantine emperor linking Muslims and violence -- into
a speech on Islam rather than the discussion on the role God played in
society.
"Pope Benedict's thoughts were neatly blacked out," he said.
"Commentators who take phrases out of context in a misleading
extrapolation are exercising their trade dishonestly."
He said the German-born Pontiff had made clear in Regensburg that he
wanted "a healthy confrontation" with Islam and that several Muslim
thinkers had welcomed his invitation to dialogue.
Bertone has been one of the church's harshest critics of Dan Brown's
popular novel The Da Vinci Code.
In the interview he also took aim at "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," a new
film claiming that archaeologists have found the tomb of Jesus and his
family and indications that Mary Magdelene, one of his followers in the
gospels, was his wife.
According to the Bible, Jesus never married and rose bodily from the
dead after his crucifixion.
"This is a strategy against the church and the divine figure of Christ,"
he said. "These campaigns try to sap the faith of Christian people and
the trust the faithful have in the church."
The apocryphal gospels used as sources for popular books and films were
not new discoveries but well-known books written a century or two after
the original gospels, he said.
"Authors who try to sow confusion between these two different sources
profit from religious ignorance," he said.
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John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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31 Mar 2007 09:12:41 PM |
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"Authors who try to sow confusion between these two different sources
profit from religious ignorance," he said.
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http://tinyurl.com/35w4ae
They're not the only ones profiting from religious ignorance.
g.
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| User: "gps" |
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| Title: Re: Pope's aide blasts media coverage of church |
31 Mar 2007 09:58:58 PM |
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"Authors who try to sow confusion between these two different sources
profit from religious ignorance," he said.
They're not the only ones profiting from religious ignorance.
g.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Pope's aide blasts media coverage of church |
01 Apr 2007 01:16:21 AM |
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In article <460f137b$0$16303$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
gps <gps_@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Authors who try to sow confusion between these two different sources
profit from religious ignorance," he said.
They're not the only ones profiting from religious ignorance.
You've never seen a starving clergyman, have you?
g.
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John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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