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Article: Clash of the Religious Titans.(Catholics and Muslims )
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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The Vatican has never been simply he religious headquarters of the Roman Catholic church. It has always been involved in politics to promote or defend its doctrines and institutions. In this effort, the Vatican has at times supported violent conflict while on other occasions stressed peace and tolerance. In recent years it has been troubled by the growth of the Islamic population in Europe, which some Catholic leaders call "a program of expansion and reconquest."
The National Catholic Reporter in October 1999 noted that, according to the United Nations, the Islamic population grew by more than 100 percent in Europe from 1989 to 1998 to fourteen million, while ...