New Pope meets Macedonian Ambassador

Is thePope Catholic? Who cares ... he just met with the Macedonian Ambassador.

It is not a good idea to teach religion in the schools. It causes nothing but trouble when some dogmatic nut case (Christian or Muslim cleric) says something stupid and all hell breaks loose.

Keep religion in the churches and mosques and out of the schools!

Pope asks Macedonia to allow religion classes in elementary schools:

"VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI asked the government of Macedonia to keep its promise to allow religion to be taught in public elementary schools.

'Knowledge enlightened by faith, far from dividing communities, binds peoples together in the common search for truth, which defines every human as one who lives by belief,' the pope said May 19 during a ceremony welcoming Macedonia's new ambassador to the Vatican.
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