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Muslims and Catholics: Faith in each other

Leader Monday September 18, 2006 The Guardian **SEE also Guardian Special Report (compendium of articles) on this topic** Just as the scorching Australian sun dries out the bush to the … Continue reading

19 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Other noteworthy pieces on Ratzinger’s recent speech

NB. All links open in new window, unless you use firefox/ mozilla and right-click to open in new tab in same window). In loose chronological order, with more recent pieces … Continue reading

19 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Tariq Ali: A Bavarian Provocation

Counterpunch September 16 / 17, 2006 Papal Insults: A Bavarian Provocation Was Benedict’s most recent provocation accidental or deliberate? The Bavarian is a razor-sharp reactionary cleric. A man who organises … Continue reading

17 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ratzinger’s zingers

As a Catholic, albeit lapsed, I wasn’t thrilled with the choice of hardliner Cardinal Ratzinger, now His Holiness Pope Benedict, as Pope. Here’s his speech that has inflamed some of … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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