The Vatican has denounced French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s new cover depicting God carrying an assault rifle. The controversial cover commemorates a year since the Jan. 7, 2015 terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo’s Paris headquarters, which left 12 people dead.
The text below the image read, “One year on: the assassin is still out there.”
An unsigned editorial in The Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, said, “The French weekly once again forgets what religious leaders of every affinity have been repeating for some time, to reject violence in the name of religion.”
“The choice of Charlie Hebdo shows the sad paradox of a world increasingly more careful of being ‘politically correct,’ to the point of being almost ridiculous … But that doesn’t want to recognize and respect the faith in God of every believer, whichever religion they practice.”
–The Herald Democrat
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