Reply #71: I read it--about three times

[Phx_Dem]

The story he used about the bys. emperor and a persian seems only tangentially related to his premise which struck me as odd. He did not say one way or the other whether he agreed with the emperor, I still can't figure out whether he thinks the Hellenization of Catholicism is a good thing or not.

Apparently the pope writes his own speeches, others at the Vatican did try to make the pope aware that some people would find the story objectionable, but he did not change it. The pope af all people should have been more sensitive to others religious traditions.