Islam Meets Catholicism as Muslim Protesters Call for Death of Pope Benedict

Radical Muslims Call For Death of Pope Benedict During His Trip to Britain (Video)
The radical Muslim group “Muslims Against Crusaders” protested against Pope Benedict during his trip to Great Britain. The radicals chanted, “Pope Benedict you will pay!” and “Watch your back!” during their hate-filled rally last week. From the Video: The slaves of Allah confront the slave of Satan - Pope Benedict XVI at a demonstration in London. Saturday 18 September 2010. Newsreal Blog has more on the disgusting Protesters: Muslim...

Pope Benedict Calls Christians to Protect Human Life From Abortion, Euthanasia
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- During his visit to England, Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians worldwide to do more to protect human life from Abortion and euthanasia. He issued a clarion call for Christians and all people to promote the Pro-Life ethic and respect for the worth of every human being. Pope Benedict, speaking at a residence for the elderly, said, "Life is a unique gift, at every stage from conception until natural death and it is God’s alone to...

It's wrong to use Newman to attack Pope Benedict
John Henry Newman is often called "the Father of the Second Vatican Council". In this year of his beatification it is no doubt inevitable that he will he appealed to by those liberal Catholic who are much less interested in the actual text of the documents of the Council than in the so-called "spirit of Vatican II" which they believe lies behind the texts and which justifies an interpretation of the Council as merely the beginning of a revolution that will turn the Catholic Church into a Church...

Tea and Sympathy: Pope Benedict XVI's British Tour Ends as Surprise Success
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Great Britain was dubbed his most difficult mission yet. But he scored points with Brits with his simple gestures and clear messages. The Vatican is describing the trip as "a spiritual success." It was his 17th trip abroad and on Sunday evening Pope Benedict XVI likely felt relief as he flew back towards Rome. After all, The Pope's historic visit to Great Britain had surpassed the gloomy predictions made ahead of his four-day trip. Britons' skepticism waned and...

Pope's visit: No apology from aide who called Britain third world country
Pope's visit: No Apology from aide who called Britain Third World country Cardinal Walter Kasper, who skipped papal visit to the UK, is not planning to say sorry, says spokesman German cardinal Walter Kasper smiling broadly. The Pope's aide has attracted criticism for comments likening the UK to a 'Third World country'. Photograph: Paolo Cocco/AFP Cardinal Walter Kasper, the senior Catholic who prompted controversy on the eve of Pope Benedict's visit by comparing Britain to a Third World...

Pope issues new green message for world's Catholics
An Arctic coastline yesterday where the sea is usually still frozen at this time of year. The Vatican has added its voice to concerns over Global Warming. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters The Vatican yesterday added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings from churches around the world that Climate Change and abuse of the environment is against God's will, and that the one Billion-strong Catholic Church must become far greener. At a Vatican conference on Climate Change, Pope Benedict urged...

Protesting the Pope Like It's A.D. 1054
Not everyone who showed up to Protest Pope Benedict’s visit to the UK were secularists. At least one Eastern Orthodox gentleman joined in to send the pontiff a message : It wasnt really a poster; it more like Magic Marker theology on a pizza box. And a young man named Toby Guise was happy to explain where, in his opinion, the Catholic Church had gone wrong. Filioque means And the Son, and refers to a centuries-old debate between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, about...

How did the pope play in Britain?
British media Monday hailed Pope Benedict XVI for shedding his distant and authoritarian image on his historic state visit, but cautioned the Catholic Church still faced challenges in the nation. The pontiff succeeded in presenting himself as a lovable, elderly figure -- a far cry from the "Rottweiler" image, they said. "What the visit accomplished above all was to unify Catholics and humanise a Pope who has so often been perceived as cold, aloof and authoritarian," wrote Catherine Pepinster,...

Completely Bizarre: NPR Speculates If Historic Cardinal Is Gay, Admitting There's No Evidence
Mollie Hemingway at the religion-news analysis blog Get Religion caught how the Taxpayer-funded Liberals at National PublicRadio cover momentous events for the Roman Catholic Church: by speculating that a historic Cardinal might have been a Homosexual, even though they admit there's no proof: On the final day of his United Kingdom trip, Pope Benedict XVI formally beatified English theologian and apologist Cardinal John Henry Newman. Lets look at some of the stories about Newman. NPRs...

"The time has come to address our nation's bigotry"
Jim Wallis and is merry gang of duplicitous religious leftists at Sojourners are attempting to raise money and combat all the Islamaphobia that's out there.  An excerpt from their latest fund raising email follows with some running commentary from yours truly in brackets: Dear Rick, It's easy to see that hostility toward Muslims is on the rise in America [what's not apparently easy to see by Sojourners is the reason why this might be the case - Rick*]. My heart aches every time I hear...

Temecula: Anti-Mosque group trying to Separate Islam from Sharia Law
Temecula, California has been the scene of another Mosque controversy. This is the place where Mosque opponents called for Protesters to bring dogs to their demonstration during Friday prayers. This time some vocal residents don’t want the Mosque in Temecula for all the same reasons that we have heard repeated over and over throughout the country: Islam wants to take over, Muslims cannot be trusted, they want to impose Sharia’ law on us. Now a group of Temecula residents opposed to...

Pope's Spectacular Success in Britain
In a damp Birmingham park before a crowd of 55,000 worshippers, Pope Benedict XVI rounded off his visit to Britain yesterday by beatifying the Victorian convert and theologian John Henry Newman. Like Newman (best remembered, said Benedict, for his "keen intellect and prolific pen"), this Pontiff has long enjoyed a reputation for being a complex, clever but rather dry academic, favouring language that is difficult to understand and moral positions that are uncompromising. Hence his nickname,...

Pope Speaks, Calling Catholic Priests' Sex Crimes "Unspeakable"
( - promoted by Pam Spaulding ) Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog. It's ironic that when The Pope apologizes for Catholic priests' sexual assaults on Children and adults, as he did yesterday in London, The Pope calls these Sex Crimes "the unspeakable." One of the most damaging aspects of these Sex Crimes by priests is that the Church has considered and pronounced them to be "unspeakable." The New York Times reports, London — On a day when he faced the largest...

News about Newman
Posted by Mollie On the final day of his United Kingdom trip, Pope Benedict XVI formally beatified English theologian and apologist Cardinal John Henry Newman. Let’s look at some of the stories about Newman. NPR’s excellent religion reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty had a piece speculating that Newman was gay. I thought it a completely bizarre approach for the main story the news outlet chose to report on the man. The piece itself acknowledges, eventually, that there’s no...

Men released after allegedly threatening Pope
Six men who were arrested after British Police said threats were made against The Pope have been released without charges. Police in London arrested the men Friday on "suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of Terrorism." They were all released Saturday night and Sunday morning, Police said. The men were arrested while Pope Benedict XVI was on a four-day tour of Ireland and England. Your Comments The Pope and the queen in one place.....a useless inbread meddler and the...

A Pope for All Seasons
I saw the Pope in Fatima this past spring. I wound up with a decent spot for Mass there, and couldnt help but watch the Holy Fathers face throughout the Mass and subsequent adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The man was being renewed there. He was taking energy from the crowd and the universality of the Church, as so many there gathered were. And it was hard not to notice the motherly encouragement that was present. She said the Soviets wouldnt win. She reminded us sin and death...

One Protester The Pope Would Have Liked
Its not every day you see Latin on a placard protesting The Pope. When the anti-papal crowd of several thousand atheists, radical feminists and gay Activists gathered in London this weekend, most of the banners were pretty simple: stuff like Nope to The Pope and Papa Dont Preach. But later in the afternoon, on the edges of the papal Motorcade, and amidst a number of cheering fans of Benedict, there was a poster raised demanding, DROP THE FILIOQUE. What? You have to know...

Pope Benedict XVI and the Tea Party Movement: Soulmates?
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church doesn't do political Endorsements, and Pope Benedict XVI isn't likely to make an exception for the Tea Party movement, no matter how much momentum the Populist tax revolt gains as the fall election campaign picks up speed. But after watching Benedict during his visit to Britain this weekend -- widely considered a success in the face of low expectations -- Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review Online, saw both the Tea Party and the pontiff...

Newsflash: Benedict isn't the angry, aloof pope we keep insisting he is.
British media Monday hailed Pope Benedict XVI for shedding his distant and authoritarian image on his historic state visit, but cautioned the Catholic Church still faced challenges in the nation. The pontiff succeeded in presenting himself as a lovable, elderly figure — a far cry from the "Rottweiler" image, they said. "What the visit accomplished above all was to unify Catholics and humanise a Pope who has so often been perceived as cold, aloof and authoritarian," wrote Catherine...

Catholic theologian Eamon Duffy mocks Pope Benedict & uses Newman to attack him
‘But The Pope has repeatedly shown himself maladroit and badly advised in his attempts to promote his views. An academic to the toes of his red papal slippers , he has poor antennae for the likely public perception of his actions and utterances. That was made clear by the hostile reaction to his Regensburg remarks on Islam, and, more recently, by his disastrous though doubtless well-intentioned conciliatory gestures to the Holocaust-denying Lefebvrist rebel Bishop Richard...

Thousands protest as Pope meets abuse victims
Pope Benedict XVI has met with clerical abuse Victims as an estimated 10,000 demonstrators paraded through London protesting against the Catholic Church. Meawhile, police say six street cleaners arrested in London on suspicion of organising an Assassination attempt during The Pope's visit pose no credible threat to the life of the pontiff. They have not been charged with any offence but are still in custody.

Egyptian police arrest protesters decrying possible succession of Mubarak's son
Cairo — Egyptian Police on Tuesday beat and arrested Anti-Government Activists demonstrating against the possibility of the president's son succeeding his father as leader of the country. Some 300 Protesters outside the former royal palace in downtown Cairo chanted Anti-Government slogans, waved flags and even burned pictures of the president while hundreds of black clad Riot Police surrounded them in tight cordons. Many others were prevented from even reaching the wide square. Shoving...

The Social Construction of Controversy
Guest Post by Peter Henne Peter Henne is a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project and a doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University. (This Post originally appeared at The Huffington Post .) Observers and participants in the recent Park51 debate likely noticed some parallels to the 2005 Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy. Potent religious issues mixed with a clash between Freedom of Speech and the protection of communal values. But, as Lawrence Wright has discussed,...

Student Accused of Attacking Muslim Cabby Will Remain at Bellevue
Pool photo by Steven Hirsch Michael Enright, right, with his lawyer, Jason Martin, at his arraignment in August. A 21-year-old film Student accused of trying to kill a Muslim cabdriver last month was ordered to remain in custody on Wednesday at his arraignment in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The Student, Michael Enright, faces charges of second-degree Attempted Murder as a Hate Crime and first-degree assault as a Hate Crime after he slashed the Driver while getting a ride in Midtown last...

The Pope isn't who the left says he is
The Anchoress brings us to this InsideCatholic piece righteously titled " Newsflash: Benedict isn't the angry, aloof Pope we keep insisting he is ": Deacon Greg linked to an article in the Vancouver Sun this morning that wrapped up The Pope's UK visit, and I'm exasperated just from the title: Pope sheds 'Vatican Rottweiler' image on Britain trip Really? Are we still acting surprised when, once again, Pope Benedict turns out to be nothing like the angry caricature so often painted of him?...