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Pope Francis has died

(www.reuters.com)
916 points phillipharris | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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lr4444lr ◴[21 Apr 25 12:48 UTC] No.43751408[source]▶
I will never forget his sympathy for the motives of the terrorists who massacred staff at Charlie Hebdo:

“If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,” Francis said while pretending to throw a punch in his direction.

He added: “It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”[0]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebd...

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1. sneak ◴[21 Apr 25 13:04 UTC] No.43751566[source]▶
Our leaders should not be normalizing or condoning responding to words with violence.

Such an attitude is abhorrent and shameful.

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2. Telemakhos ◴[21 Apr 25 13:36 UTC] No.43751877[source]▶
I think that article lost a bit of nuance somewhere. The Pope was specifically defending the right of Muslims to protest peacefully against deliberate insults to their religion:

> Francis spoke about the Paris attacks while on his way to the Philippines, where around 1,500 Muslims protested yesterday against the depictions of the Prophet in the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. [0]

He also explicitly condemned violence:

> Francis insisted that it was an “aberration” to kill in the name of God and said religion can never be used to justify violence. [0]

So, he wasn't justifying the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebd...