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\nFrench Archbishop of Paris Cardinal Andre Vingt-trois holds a copy of a street plate on the square in front of Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris September 3, 2006 after a ceremony to rename the esplanade after the late pope John Paul II. The decision was voted through the Paris council in June, and required a dispensation for the city’s general rule that five years must pass after the death of prominent personalities before public places are named after them. REUTERS\/Charles Platiau (FRANCE)<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately all of the stories covering this event concentrate on the protesters.<\/p>\n

About 200 demonstrators staged a sit-in near Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral Sunday protesting the inauguration of a new John Paul II Square because of the late pope’s stance on AIDS and contraception.<\/span><\/p>\n

City legislators and members of the Green Party and the AIDS activist group Act-Up were among the protesters sitting and lying down on the pavement as Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe led a ceremony formally renaming the square.<\/p>\n

"Delanoe is honoring an assassin," some chanted, saying John Paul’s opposition to condoms, along with other forms of contraception, was responsible for hundreds, even thousands of deaths to AIDS and other diseases.<\/p>\n

Delanoe, joined by Paris Archbishop Andre XXIII, honored the late pope as a "messenger of peace."<\/p>\n

"Was there another pope before him who had as much courage to talk about the Church’s mistakes about the Holocaust, about the treatment of blacks, about the Crusades, about the wars of religion?" Delanoe asked.
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