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ARTURO GARCIA
16 JAN 2015

Former CNN host Piers Morgan accused Pope Francis on Thursday of promoting aggression against anyone who criticizes religion.

“Here was my Holy Father, supposedly a man who espouses the philosophy of turning the other cheek, telling us all to whack someone in the face if they insult us,” Morgan wrote in the Daily Mail. “Well, isn’t that exactly what Al Qaida did in Paris, metaphorically speaking? They claimed the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists had insulted their religion, and reacted with physical aggression. Albeit aggression of a deadly, despicable varity.”

Morgan’s column was published a day after the Pope condemned the mass shooting that killed 12 Charlie Hebdo staff members, while saying that “there are limits” to freedom of speech and comparing insulting a person’s faith to insulting his mother.

“If my good friend Dr. [Alberto] Gasparri says a curse…