Catholic responses

(This post has been updated.)

The Benedict Blog: "Benodette, from the RatzingerForum, reminded all of us today of a much-overlooked address by Benedict to representatives of some Muslim communities, whom he met while visiting Cologne for World Youth Day on Saturday, August 20, 2005 [...] You can find the full text on the Vatican website."

Jim Tucker: "The lecture was about Logos -- reason, reasonableness, rationality -- as the necessary underpinning both of faith and secular society, that without a common ground of reason, then conversation becomes impossible, violence drives out discourse, and we become fragmented, individualistic, miserable human beings, each man trapped within a self that can never be understood by anyone else, and God Himself becomes unknowable and beyond any hope of man's apprehension."

It is well worth reading the whole thing.

And by way of Tariq Nelson, I came across this blog by a Catholic from London (where the comments, sadly, reminded me of The Great Jafi), who photographed the usual collection of "professional Muslim extremists" (as my brother calls them) shouting and jeering outside Westminster Cathedral. These people, as one can see from the photos, are the usual suspects that turn up for a photo opportunity whenever they can sniff any kind of publicity (who said they were anti-modern?). They have, at one time of another, been part of the now disbanded al-Muhajiroun, al-Ghuraaba or the-group-that-wasn't-a-group-but-a-collection-of-individuals known as The Saved Sect. I wonder what pseudo-Islamic, egotistical freakshow they belong to now; Brothers Against Car Insurance? Indolent Strangers for the Welfare State?

I'm disappointed that the police actually let this collection of idiots, halfwits, morons and fools harass people leaving a church.

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[doshar]

I want to say happy Ramadan in as many muslim blogs as possible...

Happy Ramadan everyone. Hope it brings you all the good in this world and after.