AmericanPapist Comments
I really love the smile on his face here!
I would call your attention to Pope Benedict's words (as quoted in the Sandro Magister article):
“The civil authorities of every democratic country are duty bound to guarantee the effective freedom of all believers and to permit them to organize freely the life of their religious communities. [...] This assumes, of course, that religions do not seek to exercise direct political power, as that is not their province, and it also assumes that they utterly refuse to sanction recourse to violence as a legitimate expression of religion.”
Translation: "Turks, lay off the Patriarchate. Let them choose whom they want as Patriarch. Let the Haliki seminary be reopened. They are not going to harm you. They are too small a minority to do any harm to Turkey. And this applies to the other Christian communities there too -- all of whom were here before there was a Turkey."
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