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ROME, March 13, 2015 – For one day, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin literally rose to the throne.
He did so on Wednesday, March 11 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he delivered a “lectio magistralis” on the theme most distinctly his own: the diplomacy of the Holy See.
The complete text of his lecture was immediately released by the Vatican press office:
The Lesson of the Perfect Diplomat
The text is at the end of the commentary. This part I got a kick out of:
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And for the sake of “structuring dialogue among religions on the basis of the institutions and norms of international law,” the cardinal points to the example of an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Vienna, the International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, abbreviated KAICIID.
But Parolin does not mention that the first two letters of the acronym stand for King Abdullah, referring to the monarchy of Saudi Arabia, which is the founder of the organization together with Austria and Spain, with the Holy See as a “founding observer.”
Nor does he seem to take into account the fact that last February the government of Vienna threatened Saudi Arabia with the closure of the center’s offices, after the human rights activist Raif Badawy was given a sentence of a thousand lashes and ten years in prison, the latest of many proofs of the illiberalism of that kingdom and of the extremism with which it applies the laws of the Quran.
Saudi Arabia responded to Austria's threat by threatening in turn to remove from Vienna the headquarters of OPEC, the organization of oil producers of which it is the most influential member, rejecting all outside interference in its affairs and claiming to be “among the foremost countries” in upholding human rights, “albeit in accordance with Quranic law”:
He did so on Wednesday, March 11 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he delivered a “lectio magistralis” on the theme most distinctly his own: the diplomacy of the Holy See.
The complete text of his lecture was immediately released by the Vatican press office:
The Lesson of the Perfect Diplomat
The text is at the end of the commentary. This part I got a kick out of:
...
And for the sake of “structuring dialogue among religions on the basis of the institutions and norms of international law,” the cardinal points to the example of an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Vienna, the International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, abbreviated KAICIID.
But Parolin does not mention that the first two letters of the acronym stand for King Abdullah, referring to the monarchy of Saudi Arabia, which is the founder of the organization together with Austria and Spain, with the Holy See as a “founding observer.”
Nor does he seem to take into account the fact that last February the government of Vienna threatened Saudi Arabia with the closure of the center’s offices, after the human rights activist Raif Badawy was given a sentence of a thousand lashes and ten years in prison, the latest of many proofs of the illiberalism of that kingdom and of the extremism with which it applies the laws of the Quran.
Saudi Arabia responded to Austria's threat by threatening in turn to remove from Vienna the headquarters of OPEC, the organization of oil producers of which it is the most influential member, rejecting all outside interference in its affairs and claiming to be “among the foremost countries” in upholding human rights, “albeit in accordance with Quranic law”:
.........And muslims wonder why non-muslims are opposed to sharia law.
