The Vatican Radio Fosters Discrimination

Except for NPR, most radio stations are privately owned and funded, and have a right to air, or not air, guests of their choosing.
Your anti-Christian comments are offensive, and qualify as hate-speech.
You owe your readers (of ALL religions) an apology.

The first sentence of your post is absolutely correct. Radios to have to right to call whoever they want, I merely drew attention to the fact that the Catholic Church silences dissent, in much the same way the Communist Chinese government does.

As for the rest of your post, it doesn't have the slightest connection to reality. All the "accusations", so to speak, that I made against the Catholic (not Orthodox or other Christian confessions) Church is based on historical realities of oppression and lashing out against those who spoke their minf, and failed to come within the lines drew by the "holy" Church.

The crusades, the Inquisition, the burning of heretics, the persecution of scientists are all historically-documented facts, and are not by any means figments of my imagination. So maybe YOU should be the one to apologize for qualifying my article as "hate-speech".

And another thing. I never wrote demeaning articles about any other religion than Catholic Christians, simply because no other did so much harm to the world, under the pretext of doing good. I highly respect Orthodox Christians, as well as other forms of Christianity, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists, among others. But my personal opinion on the Vatican is as I've stated, and, for now, the historical accounts back up my claims.

Sorry Mr. Vieru, The last paragraph of your response to JD betrays your bigotry. This is a groundless and hateful attack piece. In your article, you aptly demonstrate that you have no qualms about telling malicious lies about people that you disagree with. The Catholic Church does not say that science is bad. They even operate their own observatory. You would have to be living in a cave to not know that. You don't let pesky things like the truth get in the way of your demented rantings. In case you haven't heard, the Muslims attacked Christian lands first. The Crusades were an attempt to recover lands that were stolen by the Muslims. In the case of the Inquisition, you blur the distinction between the actions of the Spanish government and the actions of the Church. They call it the Spanish Inquisition for a reason. You make it sound like the Catholic Church routinely rounds up scientists and puts them in gulags. You then go on to say that no one else has done anything that is worse according to the historical accounts. Did the historical accounts that you have read include the history of atheist governments like the Soviet Union who put millions in the gulags and killed millions more in the name of atheism? I am sure that you think the Catholic Church is worse than that. Your attempt to characterize efforts by the Catholic Church to make sure that their resources are not used to promote ideas that they disagree with as being equal to the Chinese government's means of silencing dissent is ridiculous hyperbole. When is the last time you have seen jack booted Cardinals and Bishops burst into people's houses and haul them away to gulags? It is the leaders of secular governments like Stalin that wear jack boots, not the Pope. JD owes you no apology. JD is right on. Your ignorant rantings are nothing more than hate speech. From reading your article, I can tell that you owe many people apologies for lying about them; but I don't expect a hateful person like you to apologize to anyone.

Really, Tudor, your one track mind is so tedious. When are you people going to stop trying to make yourselves feel good by insulting a people and church which has by far done more good than you can possibly admit to. Peace!!

@ SEG: so, in the end, it's all a matter of perspective, I gather from your post. You say that the Spanish Inquisition was the work of the Spanish government. Well, my friend, in the past the Church was the ruler of them all. Monarchs had the pope's blessing. And if the Church wanted the killing stopped, they would have stopped.

Next, I do not approve of Stalin's killings. Or Hitler's. Or anyone else's. As for the bit of Muslims attacking first, are you sure you want to go down that road? Christians have been killing so-called "heretics" and "witches" far before Muslims came along.

As for the personal notes of your message, I have nothing to reply to you, seeing as you do not know me personally. You are in no position to pass judgment on how I behave in my private life. You can say that I am a hateful person, but my hate is guided in the right places. Such as the Church. Maybe the pope should take examples from other peaceful religions, and the Church should learn the virtue of humility, as countless other beliefs have.

@ Vin
I don't know about that. Consider this - in its refugee centers in South America, in mid 20th century, the Catholics only passed food along to those who went to Church. The others were not "worthy" of food. How is this in tune with the values they preach, of morality, justice and helping others?

This is an extremely biased article. The Vatican radio can invite or dis-invite whoever they please. Adding insult to injury, Tudor Vieru makes a lot of unwarranted comments attacking the Catholic Church, just to further display his bigotry.

Witches, inquisition, crusades, refugee centers??? (I was born and raised in SA and don't even know what you are talking about).Give me a break. All events unrelated to the article' s topic and to the eternal Church headed by Jesus Christ, because its members are fallible. All events that reported by people like yourself, misinformed and with a biased agenda. Please report objectively.