Here's a first - President Moshe Katsav will be a guest of the Vatican in the middle of next month. The official visit will mark a first by an Israeli president to the Vatican. Katsav and Pope Benedict XVI will discuss ways of expanding cooperation on state affairs between the Vatican and Israel and deepening the dialogue between Judaism and Catholicism. Katsav will also ask the Pope to step up the Vatican's actions against anti-Semitism throughout the world and to allow Israeli researchers access to documents in the Vatican's archives.For some background, see this by Smooth about the Vatican and our Temple's treasures, and this old post of mine about Jews and the Catholic Church: Kabdehu V'chashdehu (respect them, but be extremely suspicious of them).
Lastly and somewhat unrelatedly, if you didn't know there was a suicide bombing at Oklahoma University Saturday night, then Smooth Stone can catch you up to speed on that too. Unless of course, you prefer to accept this AP photo caption as all the information you could possibly need or want about the "blast" --
University of Oklahoma President David Boren gestures as he answers a question at a news conference in Norman, Okla., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005, concerning security measures at Memorial Stadium. The university will tighten security at the stadium after a student with explosives attached to his body died Saturday in a blast within 100 yards of thousands of fans watching a football game there, Boren said Tuesday. (AP Photo)
The mainstream media is so transparent in their denial, I have to laugh: "a student with explosives attached to his body ... died."
The next thing you know, they'll be warning us not to try this at home.
Posted by: Maurice | Thursday, 06 October 2005 at 08:10 PM