Pope Pays Homage To Father Santoro

Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute yesterday to Father Andreas Santoro as part of his controversial trip to Muslim-dominated Turkey. Father Santoro was shot and killed in February by a Turkish youth supposedly upset about cartoons published in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Fall 2005. Father Santoro's murder -- which the perpetrator has since called an accident based on his wanting to scare the priest -- was one of the key, alarming incidents in the wave of violence and protests coming out of Europe in February over the cartoons, and the fact that coverage of the Pope's tour includes mention of the incident show just how much of an impression those events made on the political consciousness of Europe.
 
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