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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:00 AM

Back to the Dark Ages

Pope Benedict's animosity toward other faiths reveals a deep arrogance rooted in a blinkered Catholicism utterly out of place in the 21st century.
By Madeleine Bunting

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  • Wednesday, September 20, 2006 07:59 AM

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    ...her point (I think) is that the Pope's speech aimed to reconcile two points of view concerning religion: faith (i.e. Islam) and reason (Europe and the rest of the West).

    Fire away!

    —Joseph Andrews

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