I don't think anyone is qualified to comment on how "appropriate" or not the Pope's comments were until they've read or heard all of those comments in their entirety. Everyone here is doing what the Muslim extremists did: passing judgement on a couple of sentences out of a much longer speech. I'll take Shortcuts in Current Intellectual Discourse for 500, Alex.
A quick search on Google turns up the following:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/be...nsburg_en.html