9/16/2006

Benedict on hot seat

German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended Benedict's comments, saying the pope intended only to promote dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

``What Benedict XVI emphasized was a decisive and uncompromising renunciation of all forms of violence in the name of religion," Merkel told the newspaper Bild.

But she's in the minority, in fact, is the only supporter of Benedict at this time, to judge by a Boston Globe summary.

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