It turns out that Pope Benedict’s infamous Regensburg speech eight years ago — with a mention of Islam as a violent, “evil and inhuman” — may not have been a great gaffe after all. David Gibson revisits the Regensburg speech and delves into why Benedict’s allies are burnishing his star. “Regensburg was not so much the work of a professor or even a pope,” wrote the Rev. Raymond de Souza in a column for the National Catholic Register, a conservative publication. “It was the work of a prophet.” MORE