[Cronos]

Culture will have an official English translation available in a few days and I'll make a point of posting it.

you can ping Lera to it.

I can bet that you'll get no response

As Natural law pointed out The only problem is that this never happened! Cardinal Ravisi never said it.

quote a militantly anti-Catholic article misquoting the Cardinal's introduction to Pope Benedict's third volume on Jesus of Nazareth.

In his remarks the Cardinal mentioned a cycle of violence in the middle east dating back thousands of years and cited Herrod's killing of the innocent among several examples. and no response from Lera

[marshmallow]

you can ping Lera to it. I can bet that you'll get no response

They've left the building......emptied the dumpster in the front lobby and driven off.

Even without the actual transcript of Ravasi's speech, this didn't pass the smell test. Nowhere else on the web is this reported. There are links,such as that at Jihad Watch, to this very article but nothing else. That fact alone should be enough to alert anyone with a little common sense that the flamebait of a headline posted above was the work of this author and not the words of Ravasi.

There is absolutely no question that had Ravasi uttered these words, there would have been multiple independent reports of them in all the usual media outlets, starting with the Catholic Church's greatest friend, The New York Times.

There are none and the transcript of Ravasi's words confirms my initial suspicions.

This thread is nothing but a useless kook magnet.

[Lera]

In his remarks the Cardinal mentioned a cycle of violence in the middle east dating back thousands of years and cited Herrod's killing of the innocent among several examples. and no response from Lera

No response from Lera eh ? Try looking at post number 7 in this thread .I posted a response as soon as I posted thread , right before I went into the kitchen to start baking for Thanksgiving . Oh a Happy Thanksgiving to you too


Herod's killing of the innocents
King Herod the puppet king of Judea put into power by Rome. King Herod the Edomite king of Judea .
King Herod the Arab that ordered the execution of all Jewish babies under the age of 2 in Bethlehem .
Yeah I'd say the Jewish people have a long history of demon possessed Arabs trying to kill them alright .
And yet these Arabs shoot off rocket after rocket into Israeli cities and people sit silent until Israel has had enough and starts targeting the people who are shooting those rockets and what do they say - they call it a vicious circle .... There is no vicious circle , there is only an Arab everlasting hatred . Crazy Muslim Arabs trying to murder Israelis every single day . The violence will end the day they stop trying to kill Israelis because they think their god is bigger than God.

There is no excuse to make any excuse for these savages .