Osservatore Romano says cartoon shows unhappy paradox of world that is increasingly careful to be politically correct yet does not respect believers’ faithThe Vatican’s newspaper on Tuesday criticised French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo for a front cover portraying God as a gun-wielding terrorist to heed the first anniversary of a terrorist attack on the publication’s offices in which 12 people died.
A million copies of the special edition hit Frances newsstands on Wednesday with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, accompanied by the text: “One year on: the assassin is still out there.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com