Pope Benedict 'deeply sorry' about reactions to speech
by editorial staff | 09/19/2006 | article read 363 times
Pope Benedict XVI has apologised for the furore caused by a lecture he made in Germany where he quoted a 14th century Christian emperor who had referred to the "evil and inhuman" aspects of Islam, an address that stirred ire from some Muslims...
but also triggered debate about free speech. "I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," the Pope said at his summer residence near Rome. "These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought."
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