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Monday, June 2, 2008

No Pope for you!

According to La Reppublica (the largest circulation newspaper in Italy) Pope Benedict XVI will not grant audiences to any of the heads of state coming next week to Rome for the summit of FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) to avoid a potentially “embarrassing “meeting with the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who apparently expressed the wish to meet His Holiness while in Rome. Asking What would Jesus do? is of course cracking an easy joke, but, seriously, what can be spiritually wrong with meeting the Iranian President (who does sound a bit lulu at times, but still…) ..?

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