Pope: Yo Bush, torture is bad!
Of course, he phrases it more delicately, and doesn't mention Bush by name.
The new shape of conflicts, especially since the terrorist threat unleashed new forms of violence, demands that the international community reaffirm international humanitarian law...I often knock the Catholic Church for its stance on human sexuality and its inflated sense of its own importance, but when all of the United States seems gripped by war hysteria and the desire to inflict pain on those "other people", the Catholic Church is often a strong moral voice speaking out against killing and torture. Kudos to Benedict XVI for taking our government to task.
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