[eyespysomething]

60% of food aid comes from the United States. What about all the countries who fast everyday because their "wonderful" leaders spend all the aid they receive on making their military bigger so they can crush the country who supplies aid/money/food to them!!
I can understand the Pope doesn't want war, and that's fine, but how about someone speaking up for the oppressed people around the world for a change.

[smokeyjon]

And my family wonders why I stopped going to church....

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I bet he doesn't do a TRUE Fast!!! He'll probably be drinking Ensure the whole time!! How misguided!

He is diminishing his position in my humble opinion. The way he handled the Pedophile Priests and now this. Too bad.. I was raised Catholic and have a lot of family who still are Catholic. I respect their beliefs, and I hurt for all of them and what their church is going through. There is a HUGE need for a NEW POPE.. a new Catholic Church/renewed.

Now.. about that great big cheese burger with greasy fries CALLIN MY NAME!!!

[alisasny]

Many Christians fast on Ash Wednesday anyway so .....

[Psalm 73]

Oh, that's nice - the pope is right in line with the World Council of Churches.
Does that send up any red flags for anyone here? Just curious.

[Izzy Dunne]

Has he called for Muslims to disarm?
If not, then he's just another celebrity honking at America.

[hellinahandcart]

I am SO going to break my diet tomorrow...

I'll call it the "Big Feast for *Real* Peace"

[Cable225]

The pope said the day of fasting on Wednesday would remind people of the long years of suffering endured by Iraqi citizens as a result of the international embargo against the country.

Y'know, I try to be a good Catholic. I don't agree with some of the doctrine, but I accept it. I'm no Bible-thumper, but I try to live a decent life according to the rules.

Now I'd just like the Pope to STFU. Please, please, please stay out of international affairs because whatever credibility you might have had 15 years ago, you have flushed down the drain over the last couple of years.

[hgro]

I would suggest that the Pope cleanse his own house of pedophiles and homosexuals before he starts giving advice to Christians. The Catholic Church has lost all credibility
through its acceptance of perverts that permeate the Catholic Church and that includes his own personal domain in Rome.

[smokeyjon]

"The pope said the day of fasting on Wednesday would remind people of the long years of suffering endured by Iraqi citizens as a result of the international embargo against the country."

The sheer hypocrisy of this statement is what disgusts me the most. He's instructing the Church to oppose the removal of the very person who brought those sanctions against these people.

[MNlurker]

And here I am trying to make an effort to go to church again after all the crap and this gets dropped on us!!!

I get the feeling that if Christ showed up tomorrow he'd start clearing out the Vatican much like he did the shopkeepers a long time ago.

Amazing that the one thing that tries to shake my faith is the church itself!!!!!

[habaes corpussel]

The Pope is a wonderful man and he is doing what he believes is right. What did most of you think he would say? Bomb them and let God sort them out?

[Overtaxed]

Ash Wednesday is a day of fast already....duh.

[Conspiracy Guy]

No matter you think about him, the Popemoble is cool. I'm thinking about modifying my 94 Taurus into a Bubbamobile, complete with lawnchair in the trunk, and a large cooler for beer.

[Jhoffa_]

No.

I am not fasting to protest this war.

Period.

[dead]

[singsong]

Next week I believe, the Orthodox Great Fast will begin. It is just not right to call a fast for a political reason and ignore the comming Easter. But who am I kidding - the Popes have a long history of meddling in politics.

[caisson71]

As a practicing Catholic, I will be having a huge, rare T-bone steak that night.

[goodseedhomeschool]

Sure makes you wonder who's side "the pope" is on doesn't it.

[FirstTomato]

Jesus was NOT a pacifist. Why have the leaders of some Christian churches let themselves become infected with pacifism?