Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They
AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German
Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who
By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an
Edition:
U.S.
Africa
Arabic
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Italy
Japan
Latin America
Mexico
Russia
Spain
United Kingdom
Home
Business
Business Home
Economy
Technology
Media
Small Business
Green Business
Legal
Deals
Earnings
Summits
Business Video
Markets
Markets Home
U.S. Markets
European Markets
Asian Markets
Global Market Data
Indices
M&A
Stocks
Bonds
Currencies
Commodities
Futures
Funds
peHUB
World
World Home
U.S.
Brazil
China
Euro Zone
Japan
Mexico
Russia
Afghan Journal
Africa Journal
India Insight
Global News Journal
Pakistan: Now or Never?
World Video
Politics
Politics Home
Front Row Washington
Politics Video
Technology
Technology Home
MediaFile
Science
Tech Video
Opinion
Opinion Home
Chrystia Freeland
Felix Salmon
Jack Shafer
Breakingviews
George Chen
Bernd Debusmann
Gregg Easterbrook
James Pethokoukis
James Saft
John Wasik
Christopher Whalen
Ian Bremmer
Mohamed El-Erian
Lawrence Summers
The Great Debate
Unstructured Finance
Newsmaker
MuniLand
Money
Money Home
Analyst Research
Global Investing
MuniLand
Reuters Money
Alerts
Watchlist
Portfolio
Stock Screener
Fund Screener
Personal Finance Video
Life & Culture
Health
Sports
Arts
Faithworld
Business Traveler
Left Field
Entertainment
Oddly Enough
Lifestyle Video
Pictures
Pictures Home
Reuters Photographers
Full Focus
Video
Article
Comments (0)
Slideshow
Full Focus
Editor's choice
A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Warning: Graphic content Full Article
Follow Reuters
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
YouTube
Read
Moody's downgrades big banks on changed policy
21 Sep 2011
Britain's FTSE plunges on fears over global economy
4:08am EDT
World stocks tumble 4 percent on recession fears
|
11:49am EDT
Congress flirts with government shutdown after bill fails
11:35am EDT
"No boots on our ground": Pakistan warns U.S.
10:12am EDT
Discussed
133
Obama to propose $3 trillion in deficit cuts
79
Geithner’s ”succinct” message irks Europeans
55
New York meetings open to avert Palestinian crisis
Watched
Human skin strengthened with spider silk can stop a bullet
Tue, Sep 20 2011
Scarlett's naked pics, Tyler Perry is highest paid
Wed, Sep 14 2011
Jim Rogers: Next global recession will be worse than 2008
Wed, Sep 21 2011
Berlin greets pope with protests on tough German tour
Tweet
Share this
Email
Print
Factbox
Pope to face cheers, jeers on German homecoming
11:00am EDT
Analysis & Opinion
Pope Benedict faces toughest visit yet to sceptical German homeland
Supporters of pope’s German visit blast Bundestag boycott plan
Related Topics
World »
Lifestyle »
Germany »
1 of 5. Pope Benedict XVI speaks to young wellwishers on his arrival at Tegel International airport in Berlin September 22, 2011. Pope Benedict starts his most difficult visit yet to his German homeland on Thursday, touring mostly Protestant and atheist regions in the ex-communist east after previous visits to Catholic strongholds in the Rhineland and his native Bavaria.
Credit: Reuters/Thomas Peter
By Philip Pullella and Tom Heneghan
BERLIN |
Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:07am EDT
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans opposed to Pope Benedict's conservative views on sexuality and angry at cases of abuse by priests protested in Berlin on Thursday at the start of his four-day visit to his homeland, where record numbers have quit the Catholic Church.
The German-born pope said before landing he understood why some were "scandalized by these crimes" and had left the Church.
He used a biblical image of Jesus the fisherman to say: "The Church is a net of the Lord that pulls in good fish and bad fish."
But the 84-year-old pope's words at the start of his third and toughest papal tour of Germany failed to soothe protesters gathering in Berlin ahead of his speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament, and mass for 70,000 at the Olympic Stadium.
"This is impossibly arrogant, it shows he is not of this world," said 62-year-old Birk Friedrich, who spent the first 14 years of his life in a Catholic children's home where he said violent abuse was rife.
"It was the Church and this pope who allowed all of the abuse to be swept under the carpet," said Friedrich in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, where the banners included one reading "Better God without a Church than a Church without God."
Gay and lesbian groups opposed to Benedict's dogmatic views on sexuality and contraception thronged the square, some dressed as bishops or even the pope.
"Why has he been invited to parliament? He has nothing to do with politics. His policies on condoms are as good as murder," said Markus Schuke, a 42-year-old working for and AIDs charity.
In a country rocked by the clerical sex scandals sweeping across Europe in the past two years, a record 181,000 people quit the Church last year -- for the first time more than the number of Protestants leaving their churches and of baptisms into the Catholic Church.
Benedict noted this exodus and urged Catholics not to quit the Church as it worked to undo the harm done.
World
Lifestyle
Germany
Tweet this
Link this
Share this
Digg this
Email
Reprints
We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/
Comments (0)
Be the first to comment on reuters.com.
Add yours using the box above.
Social Stream (What's this?)
Edition:
U.S.
Africa
Arabic
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Italy
Japan
Latin America
Mexico
Russia
Spain
United Kingdom
Back to top
Reuters.com
Business
Markets
World
Politics
Technology
Opinion
Money
Pictures
Videos
Site Index
Legal
Bankruptcy Law
California Legal
New York Legal
Securities Law
Support & Contact
Contact Us
Advertise With Us
Connect with Reuters
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
RSS
Podcast
Newsletters
Mobile
About
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Our Flagship financial information platform incorporating Reuters Insider
An ultra-low latency infrastructure for electronic trading and data distribution
A connected approach to governance, risk and compliance
Our next generation legal research platform
Our global tax workstation
Thomsonreuters.com
About Thomson Reuters
Investor Relations
Careers
Contact Us
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.