Armenia genocide in brave detail
December 5th, 2006 by
Pope Benedict XVI’s just-ended magical military tour of Turkey – with helicopters overhead and riot police bristling on every flank lest he be plugged on his first visit to a Muslim land – revealed a profound truth: Those who forget the past sometimes simply want to forget it.
The pope didn’t utter a peep about arriving in a country whose predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire, committed the largest genocide in history against Christians. Of course, it may be that the always-diplomatic Vatican Curia took possession of Benedict’s mind and body, having exorcised the former Cardinal Ratzinger’s well-known views about Turkey and Islam.
It may also be that the murder of more than one million non-Catholic Christians in the Armenian genocide is a non-homefield matter in the Vatican’s current damage-control foreign policy toward Turkey and Islam. [Read more]
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