[GarySpFc]

That's a huge "IF". ROC is a corrupt entity with vast landholdings (I remember watching a program some years ago- Alexei, servant of God, drives in a half a million dollar Benz).

And you think the Pope doesn't have these things? Mind you, I am not condemning either one, but if you are going to condemn one, then the other deserves your wrath equally.

[Mazepa]

And you think the Pope doesn't have these things?

Doesn't have what? A contact at Lubyanka? :)))) I hope not.

Mind you, I am not condemning either one, but if you are going to condemn one, then the other deserves your wrath equally.

Good point.
My reasoning of Pope vs. the Russian guy goes along these lines- one is far way, all the way somewhere in Italy, the other is in the neihboring country and has direct influence on the affairs of Ukraine.