[B Knotts]

That said, the Pope is ill-served by many of the Euro cardinals who surround him. Many are downright anti-semitic and anti-American.

There is some of that, to be sure, but, as usual, this thread is just another example of Catholic-bashing, based on biased, incomplete information.

The real story from CWN:

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=34295

Actually the government of Sri Lanka had declined an Israeli offer of help, because the relief team would have been a military unit. Sri Lanka had asked Israel for medical help only, without accompanying military personnel. Israel refused to send only the medical teams.

[sinkspur]

The Vatican's pettiness toward Israel is revealed in this story. There's simply no masking that.