Pope Speaks Out On France's Recent Riots

In an address during an audience with the new French ambassador to the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI,said that

France had to heed the warning from the riots that rocked cities across the country last month and urged the French to do more to promote racial integration.

He added that

immigrants had brought "economic, cultural and social richness" to France which now had the challenge of living up to its values of equality and fraternity by taking "an extra step toward integration".