An invitation to talk business

摘要

Do the leaders of the Muslim and Roman Catholic faiths—accounting, at least on paper, for over one billion people each—have any clear ideas about how to deal with one another? That's a question followers of both creeds have been asking as controversy about a speech by Pope Benedict continues to claim lives. A priest in Iraq was found beheaded last week, even though his parishioners had yielded to the captors' demand that they renounce the pope's words on Islam.