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Pope Benedict XVI’s contribution to the defeat of an Italian referendum targeting embryos for research and destruction has Europe’s secularists in another anti-Catholic tizzy.  Having grown accustomed to a feckless post-Vatican II Catholic Church, they were surprised and upset that Pope Benedict encouraged Italy’s bishops to torpedo the referendum by telling their flocks to boycott it.  What “unwarranted interference in Italian affairs,” they pouted.

The Pope’s efforts had some unexpected support from liberal secularist and self-described atheist Oriana Fallaci who wrote, “Behind this referendum is a project to reinvent man in the laboratory, to transform him into a product to sell like a steak or a bomb.  Here we return to Naziism.”

The referendum was resoundingly defeated, with only 25.9% of Italians going to the polls.  A 50% turnout was required for validation.  (Extract from “Benedict 1, Europe 0” by George Neumayr; The American Spectator, 15 June 2005)

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