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Bandito
11th December 2010, 10:11
Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution

In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally neutral on the question.
The Vatican's acting foreign minister, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, responded by telling US diplomats that Ratzinger's comments were his own rather than the official Vatican position.


Source. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/wikileaks-pope-turkey-eu-muslim)
Devrim
11th December 2010, 10:28
Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution


Source. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/wikileaks-pope-turkey-eu-muslim)

I think that this was quite common knowledge already.

Devrim
Kiev Communard
11th December 2010, 13:32
Vatican itself is such a reactionary establishment that it is hardly surprising that they expressed their negative attitude to Muslims to American diplomats, the latter most likely sharing it.