Monday, January 10, 2011

"These Inconsistencies Must End": The "State of the World," 2011

Delivered to a diplomatic corps now boasting full relations with 181 countries, here below the full English text of Benedict XVI's annual "State of the World" speech, given at the traditional New Year's "greeting" to the ambassadors earlier today -- its focus, as expected, on the imperative of religious freedom:

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