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As a Protestant of whatever denomination or none, you have no standing to whine about how the pope governs the Roman Catholic Church. The RCC is not your Church. The RCC is not your business. Mind your own business.

I don't care how he runs that church. If I were you, I'd be scared for my son, if I had one.

I have a problem with any foreigner criticizing my President and my country, especially when it's right after he's heaped praise on Saddam's henchman.

You can clear something up right quick: Did he (a) call Tariq Aziz "a man of peace"? and (b)shouldn't he clear up the moral dengenerants in his own house before criticizing America's morals?

(a) Don't know. Don't care as to to Tariq Aziz. I support the war in any event and it is not the pope's function to determine what is a just war as you can see from the Catechism. Don't believe all the claptrap you read from the leftist news hive. Popes are never in the habit of calling any war a cheering section opportunity.

(b) The Roman Catholic Church numbers more than one billion persons now alive. Non-Catholics often imagine that the pope can unleash lightning from the sky generically and make all the miscreants go kaboom while simultaneously denying that popes are anything special. If you are making decisions when you are in his condition or when you are 84 and you make them as well as he does, I will be more impressed. Personally I would burn the miscreants at the stake verrrrrrry slowly and sell tickets to the festivities but it is JP II's job to run the Church not my job.

Finally, my previous posts to you still stand. RCC self-governance is simply none of your non-Catholic business. The First Amendment freedom of worship stands for that proposition. The First Amendment freedom of speech simply means that you are allowed to talk free of government interference. That provision does not require any Catholic to pay you any attention.