Text of Pope's apology

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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/66a.gif Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The pastoral visit which I recently made to Bavaria was a deep spiritual experience, bringing together personal memories linked to places well known to me and pastoral initiatives towards an effective proclamation of the Gospel for today.
I thank God for the interior joy which he made possible, and I am also grateful to all those who worked hard for the success of this Pastoral Visit.
As is the custom, I will speak more of this during next Wednesday’s general audience.
At this time, I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims.
These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought.
Yesterday, the Cardinal Secretary of State published a statement in this regard in which he explained the true meaning of my words. I hope that this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with great mutual respect. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/99a.gif

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I am proud to be a Catholic. Once again the Pope has prooved his depth of thought and commitment to Christ. What severely worries me is the very few people here who could see this was the only route for a man of Christ.
 
👍 Muslims need to understand that the TRUTH can hurt. I am glad that Papa did not retract what was said just that he was sorry it hut peoples feelings.
 
Pax vobiscum!

The only reason they got that much from him was that he wanted to stop the church bombings and shootings that are going on.

In Christ,
Rand
 
“They’re” doing all the killing, yet the accusation is that our beloved pope is using the mentality of the Crusades? I gotta digest that a bit…

Funny how many more extremist the reading of this text has exposed, and they aren’t Christian. :mad:
 
No really an apology for his actions, it just sounds like he regrets that they reacted so badly.
 
Personally, I am glad he is reading about the history about the fall of Byzantium. Because it looks like that history is about to repeat itself but this time in Europe.
 
gilliam said:
Personally, I am glad he is reading about the history about the fall of Byzantium. Because it looks like that history is about to repeat itself but this time in Europe.
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The Turks will invade Europe?
 
note that he did not apologize for his remarks, but for the fact that some people took them out of context and misinterpreted them, taking offense where none was intended. he has no need to apologize as he has done nothing wrong. people who want to protest aspersions about their violent tendencies would do well to avoid violent actions in so going.
 
From [this blog](http://this blog)

Here are the Pope’s full remarks this morning:

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The pastoral visit which I recently made to Bavaria was a deep spiritual experience, bringing together personal memories linked to places well known to me and pastoral initiatives towards an effective proclamation of the Gospel for today.

I thank God for the interior joy which he made possible, and I am also grateful to all those who worked hard for the success of this pastoral visit. As is the custom, I will speak more of this during next Wednesday’s general audience.

At this time, I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims.
These in fact were a quotation from a Medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought.

Yesterday, the Cardinal Secretary of State published a statement in this regard in which he explained the true meaning of my words. I hope that this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with great mutual respect.
Rick Moran: You cannot appease the unappeasable.

Kathy Shaidle points to this Muslim paper accusing the Pope of “going berserk” and expressing shock and puzzlement at being “maliciously demonised by mischievous elements in the Christian West.”

Kathy’s response: “Here’s a clue: stop flying airplanes into buildings, stop shooting nuns in the back, stop setting fires everytime your itty bitty wittle feewings are hurt over the slightest of slights – and we’ll stop with the “demonising”, m’kay?”
I don’t see any apology on this thread at all - regret that the Islamofascists behave so badly, yes; but nothing resembling an apology for a wrong done by him. The people who should apologise are those who bomb churches - not the Pope. ##
 
I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address
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:rotfl: that reminds me of being a little kid and being made to apologize for something when we didn’t want to. “I’m Sorry you’re overly senstive and mean!” “I’m really really sorry you blew some things up in your violent tantrum.” 👍
 
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👍 Muslims need to understand that the TRUTH can hurt. I am glad that Papa did not retract what was said just that he was sorry it hut peoples feelings.
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Exactly! What he is sorry for is the fury, violence & now bloodshed on the part of irrational, vicious people who misinterpreted him and cannot bear the merest perceived slight and feel justified in reacting “by any means necessary”. He was never going to apologize for his words and he never will.
 
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