Verbatim. (News)."In these days of terror, Christians and Muslims have drawn even closer to each other. We were under the same bombs."--Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Djibrail Kassab of Basra, Iraq (Religion News Service, April 11, 2003) "There is something terribly wrong with our immigration policies if it takes death on the battlefield to earn citizenship."--Cardinal Roger Mahony His Eminence Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony (born February 27, 1936) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991. in a letter to President Bush urging citizenship for all immigrants serving in the Persian Gulf Persian Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, April 9, 2003) "War must never be allowed to divide world religions.... Let us not permit a human tragedy to become a religious catastrophe."--Pope John Paul II John Paul II, 1920–2005, pope (1978–2005), a Pole (b. Wadowice) named Karol Józef Wojtyła; successor of John Paul I. He was the first non-Italian pope elected since the Dutch Adrian VI (1522–23) and the first Polish and Slavic pope. (Catholic News Service, March 31, 2003) "It's a little sobering. When you're training for this, you joke about it, you can't wait for the real thing. Then when you see it, you never want to see it again."--Capt. Sal Aguilar, after a battle near Baghdad (New York Times, April 8, 2003) "All the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike war·like adj. 1. Belligerent; hostile. 2. a. Of or relating to war; martial. b. Indicative of or threatening war. warlike Adjective 1. people and that we love war."--Author Michael A. Ledeen at a forum on Iraq (Washington Post, March 28, 2003) "You can't play 'Back in the USSR' at half volume."--Paul McCartney's spokesperson, on the request to keep down the volume during his Rome concert so as not to disturb the pope (Reuters, March 31, 2003) |
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