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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Pope Francis, a human Pope who understands people's realities and  psyches quite well.

[quote] Pope Francis suggested there are limits to freedom of expression, saying in response to the Charlie Hebdo terror attack that "one cannot make fun of faith" and that anyone who throws insults can expect a "punch."

The pontiff said that both freedom of faith and freedom of speech were fundamental human rights and that "every religion has its dignity."

"One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith," he said. "There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits."
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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-magazine-attack/pope-francis-freedom-speech-one-cannot-make-fun-faith-n286631[/quote]

Indeed, the Catholic church has sued CH many times over the years.  Although I am surprised by Pope Francis's words.  What about turning the other cheek?

The men who murdered all of the cartoonists were not Catholic.  Did you forget?[/quote]

I am not surprised at all, the Catholic church has a very long history of strict control of the press and total intolerance toward anything that goes against the teaching of the church or that it may be considered blasphemous.  in the middle ages the death penalty was normally administered. Galileo had to recount his scientific publication on heliocentrism after being tried for heresy and then spent the rest of his life under house arrest. if he did not recanted, he would have been executed (and for a scientific paper).  the Church State (the area of Italy under control of the Pope) had the death penalty until around1860, when it was conquered by Italy's king and the Pope lost control of the land except for the Vatican,  and offending the Church was a crime.  Changes on the Church have been forced from the outside society.   The Church certainly does not advocate the execution of somebody for blasphemy (although it happily did it in the past), but on the limitation to the freedom of speech and expression as far as religion is concerned, it is fully aligned with Islam[/quote]

Seems to me that this paradigm might be changing fast.  For the first time in well over 1000 years, there's finally a Pope who actually seems to be following the Gospels as opposed to one who's just caught up in playing and pandering to various factional and partisan politics.[/quote]

By not pandering or playing politics, he's very unpopular with the church establishment and is unlikely to make any signficant lasting change to the church.  I have been very impressed with many of his speeches, but he's had zero impact on the church itself.[/quote]

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