{"id":5702,"date":"2006-09-19T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/cl-statement.html"},"modified":"2006-09-19T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T23:03:23","slug":"cl-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/cl-statement.html","title":{"rendered":"CL Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

A statement from Communion and Liberation:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In regard to the attacks against Benedict XVI by Islamic exponents, Fr. Juli\u00e1n Carr\u00f3n, President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, has issued the following declaration: <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cConcerning the accusations against Benedict XVI, three things are evident: 1) The Pope certainly did not want to offend Islamic believers, but to call everyone to a correct use of reason; 2) the Pope has a clear awareness of some extreme aspects of the vicissitudes of Islam, which are truths of history before the eyes of all; and 3) there is an intolerance of peaceful criticism that is intolerable, both in terms of the preconceived positions of certain Islamic exponents, and in terms of the indifference and superficiality of many Western commentators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand by the Pope. In affirming that \u201cnot acting according to reason is against the nature of God,\u201d Benedict XVI said a true thing that holds for anyone, beginning with we Christians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis position of the Pope saves the possibility for an authentic religious experience for every man, and permits an encounter in peace. It is not a question of a clash of civilizations, but the elementary experience of the \u201cpoor of spirit\u201d of every religion: those who live a reasonable relationship with God, beginning from the needs for truth, beauty, justice, and happiness that are in the heart of every man, and precisely for this cannot follow the violent degenerations of those who, in the name of an ideology, reject reason for a power, be they in the West or anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CL Press Office
Milan, September 15, 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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