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Reading Project: Pope Benedict’s Speech at University of Regensburg

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Your calls on our latest Brian Lehrer Show Reading Project: the full text of the speech by Pope Benedict that has so upset Muslims. Read the Pope’s remarks in their full context then call in when we discuss the speech on air with Christian and Muslim guests.

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John Allen Jr.




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Vatican correspondent, National Catholic Reporter, and author of The Rise of Benedict the XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was ...

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