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Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview published Sunday that the media coverage of the sex scandals within the church must be denounced because it “discredit’s the Church”.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Pleasant Thursday, readers. I'm pressed for time today, so I'm re-printing this entire most relevant article, from the BBC

"from Peter Gould
BBC News website

The furore over the Pope's remarks about Islam has left many Catholics inside and outside the Vatican shaking their heads in disbelief.

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The debate over the Pope's remarks last week is still raging.
In a speech last week, the pontiff cited a Medieval text that characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith."
Iraq's parliament rejected Benedict's explanation of his remarks, saying it was insufficiently clear.

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Like a crash of a meteor in a big city, the words spoken by the Pope about the islamics had a great impact for the Islan.
In fact, during his visit to Germany, he demonstrated to not know almost nothing about this religion, saying hard things about Mohammed (founder of the Islamic religion, divine prophet of Islam.) It is hard to say something about that. We all know about the consequences of terroristics acts, the 09/11, Iraq War... but we can not say that everyone of a certain religion is bad or the core of the same is based on evil or destruction as he said.

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