- VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI’s envoy to Norway is lamenting the terror attacks as “madness” and says the Roman Catholic Church is praying for the victims.
Archbishop Paul Tscherrig, interviewed Saturday on Vatican Radio, called the attacks “irrational and difficult to comprehend, whether they had personal or political reasons.”
The apostolic envoy says what happened is “unbelievable.” He praised Norway as a peaceful country with a “very democratic and free society,” and decried the attacks as a great blow for all its population.”
He says the Catholic church is praying for the victims and will remember the dead at Sunday Massachusetts
Catholics are a small minority among Christians in largely Lutheran Norway.
