[Genoa]

You have to consider the context in which he spoke them - ie. inside a mosque.

Not a good place to be, unless he means to honor the Temple Mount.

[elcid1970]

Popes have been making nice with the muzzies for decades, in the vain hope this will reduce persecution of Middle East Christians. Hasn’t worked.

What we really need is another Pope Urban II. The Pontiff who launched the First Crusade.

Rome wasn’t always this kumbaya about Islam.