[Brian Kopp DPM]

even remotely equivalent Papal achievements

Singlehandedly bringing down the largest, most murderous atheistic government in the history of man...I guess that would be downright miraculous. Pope John Paul II the Great is more of a Christian leader than any other man in the last 5 centuries combined, regardless of denomination.

Oh, yeah, one more thing..."it is a wicked generation that seeks after signs"...

[Storm Orphan]

Singlehandedly bringing down the largest, most murderous atheistic government in the history of man...

This will come as a shock to Ronald Reagan & Co.

[headsonpikes]

The crimes of the Spanish Inquisition were not mythical.

The heinous acts towards Iberian Jews alone are sufficient to cast a cloud over the Roman enterprise for a thousand years.

So wait for another 5 centuries and we'll talk about forgiveness.

Of course, individual Catholics neither share this guilt, nor require forgiveness.

The institution, however, should escape the judgment of neither man nor God.