Head of Interfaith Group Distances Himself From Israeli Remarks in Spat Wi

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBE0MA3UBE.html

Head of Interfaith Group Distances Himself From Israeli Remarks in Spat With Vatican

ROME (AP) - The head of an interfaith group active in improving Catholic-Jewish relations said Sunday he wrote to Pope Benedict XVI to distance himself from Israeli remarks that fueled a dispute with the Vatican over papal pronouncements on terrorism.

Gary Krupp, president of the New York-based Pave the Way Foundation, said he had asked the pope to grant him and other Jewish leaders an audience to tell Benedict "that we do believe that the pope is enormously supportive of the Jewish people and the state of Israel."

The dispute erupted on July 25, when Israel summoned the Vatican envoy to complain that Benedict had deliberately excluded a July 12 suicide bombing in the Israeli city of Netanya when he listed countries recently hit by terrorist attacks. The pope included Egypt, Britain, Turkey and Iraq.

Tensions worsened Thursday with a harshly worded Vatican statement telling Israel to stop trying to give the pope lessons on what to say.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Take their own damn advice

"Tensions worsened Thursday with a harshly worded Vatican statement telling Israel to stop trying to give the pope lessons on what to say." Maybe that ass should stop telling people that gay marriage will destroy marriage, implying how people should vote in other countries, and that abstinence is the ONLY way!