Father Federico Lombardi, the new director of the Vatican press office, has renewed his argument that Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) did not intend a condemnation of Islam in his speech on September 12 at the University of Regensburg. When he denounced the use of violence in the cause of religion, Father Lombardi said, the Pope was setting out "an important starting point in the speech, but it is not the aim of the speech." "It wasn't among the Pope's intentions to make a detailed study of jihad or of Muslim thought on this subject, much less to offend...