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The Controversial Speech

Last Sunday, The Philippine Daily Inquirer printed Pope Benedict XVI's "controversial" speech at the Universtiy of Regensburg, Germany. It filled an entire page and used something like Arial 6 or 4. It was really small. But I read through it, trying to find out what all the fuss was really about. Did he say the wrong thing? Was he taken out of context? Are people just over-reacting?

In case you're interested, I found the entire lecture in the Vatican's web page here (yes, the Vatican is online!) -

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

Now, discuss.

posted by Calai @ 10:44 AM