The Pope has chutzpah

Kenneth Hynek • 14th Apr 2008 • Religion, Catholicism, Religion, Islam, World News
Catholicism, Christianity, Ground Zero, Islam, New York, Pope Benedict XVI, Terrorism, the Church

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Pope Benedict XVI will pray, at Ground Zero in New York, for the redemption of the Islamic terrorists who felled the Twin Towers, and will call on all who follow the ways of Islamist terror to convert to Christianity, abandoning their god of hatred and rage for the one true God of love and understanding.

Calls for his head on a platter will likely follow in lockstep with his praying thusly. But he’s saying what needs to be said, and I for one think it is long past time that Catholicism, globally, stopped taking a conciliatory tone where radical Islam is concerned.

It’s rather funny, you know? Historically, it was up to soldiers of the Church to fight and die on the battlefield in order to clean up the messes made by Islam’s conquests. In the modern era, it seems to be falling to Catholics to fight on the rhetorical battlefield against new advances, in that arena, by the same old foe.

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