Pope Assures ADL Leaders He Is A Moral Voice Against Anti-Semitism

I wish the Pope had a private audience with Muslim leaders, too.

In a private audience today with leaders from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI issued his strongest declaration against anti-Semitism since assuming the papacy, telling the visiting delegation of Jewish leaders that he would, "be a strong, constant voice against anti-Semitism."

Pope Benedict also used the meeting as an opportunity to express regret over the recent controversy surrounding his remarks on the Prophet Mohammed and Islam. He told ADL leaders that his remarks were intended as an invitation to dialogue between Islam and other religions, and that his quoting from a medieval text that characterized some of Mohammed's teachings as "evil and inhuman" was misunderstood by many in the Muslim world.

Full text from the Anti-Defamation League's website here:

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/VaticanJewish_96/4908_96.htm