bb: I am not "anti-Catholic".
PP: I'm reminded of an article you recommended to me on another thread. I still remember the first line: "In order to be a good Protestant, you must be a good anti-Catholic."
So, bb, are you as the article you posted says "a good Protestant"?
oh and to late comers who've read the inflamatory title of this article, note what Natural law pointed out again that 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.
ALSO FOR "LATECOMERS": read the posts that speak about what this Cardinal actually said and not the diverson some here want you to take. Nobody quoted the Cardinal as saying, "Israel is a 'baby-killer'". Instead what he DID say is:
"I think - said the cardinal - the cry of the mothers in the massacre of the innocents, and that 'a cry perennial, perpetual and' a universal cry that still resonates today. ... Children die in Gaza and the cries of the mothers' continual cry. You see, the story is not 'finished', in that historical context." http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/papa-card-ravasi-grido-strage-innocenti-risuona-vittime-150800913.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgrido__strage_innocenti__risuona_in_vittime_Gaza%26hl%3Den%26tbo%3Dd%26biw%3D1107%26bih%3D490&sa=X&ei=G-iuUJaZN4369gSXjoGwAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQ7gEwAA
I find it curious that the Cardinal made NO mention of the dead children and crying mothers in Israel. What could be the reason for that? This statement in the OP article was accompanied by additional anti-semitic actions and statements from a few Eastern Orthodox leaders. My feeling is that it doesn't matter what religion the person represents. If what they say is blatantly unfair against Israel, I reject it as would ANY genuine Christian.
Yes he did...And he equated the killing of the innocents to the Jewish act of defense of the killing of her own innocents...