Reply #37: the telegram may have been in English ...

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but it was quite likely composed in Italian.

http://www.diario.it/?page=wl05070700

Ore 14.07 - il cardinale Sodano ha fatto sapere che "Il Papa ha appreso con dolore la notizia degli atti terroristici compiuti nella città di Londra e mentre deplora questi atti antiumani e anticristiani".

Something along the lines of Cardinal Sodano reported that "the pope has learned with sorrow the news of the terrorist acts committed in the city of London and deplores these inhuman and unchristian attacks".

It's a pretty lousy translation to say "inhuman" and "anti-christian".

The "christian" in the original is obviously an adjective, not a noun. Something that is "anticristiani" is contrary to christian principles. That may be irrelevant, but it's hardly characterizing the attacks as attacks on christians, as that translation could be understood to mean and some seem to have taken it to mean.

Interestingly, I found "liberalism" described the same way ;) --

http://www.univa.va.it/Varesefocus/VF.nsf/0/662C28E61E9BAEBCC1256E4500338DF4?OpenDocument

i principi anticristiani ed antiumani del liberalismo

-- "the unchristian and inhuman principles of liberalism" ... that being "liberalism" as it has historically been defined, the dog-eat-dog ideology of classical economic liberalism.