Who appointed him and who can fire him?
You know, given how often good, conservative Catholics on this forum have to explain that this or that liberal RCC official doesn't speak for the whole church, could you explain to this poor, dumb Evangelical Protestant one more time exactly how only the RCC fulfills Jesus' prayer "that they may all be one, even as We [the Father and the Son] are One"?
And don't get off on your "Catholic basher!" rant again. I happen to love the individual Catholics I know a great deal. They are, without exception (even the liberal ones) some of the nicest people I know. Of course, so are the individual Muslims that I know, but that doesn't keep me from saying that Islam itself is a false religion and that Allah is not just another name for Jehovah.
Neither does loving the Catholic laity keep me from the perfectly frank and (IMHO) correct view that the greater part of the Catholic heirarchy, particularly those of bishop-level and above, are corrupt as hell (pun intended).
Another question--actually, a pair of questions: First, is not a belief in whether and how one should pray for America's victory a matter of faith? Is not the question of whether this (or any other) war is a just war a matter of morals? If the Roman heirarchy, including even the Pope, has stood against us on this--and many of the Catholics on this forum have admitted that it has done so--are we wrong, or is the Holy See wrong on this matter of faith and morals?
It isn't Catholic-bashing to ask these questions, nor is it to criticize the Roman Church (anymore than it is Protestant-bashing to criticize the excesses of most televangelists), and I'd like some honest answers from someone with the authority to speak for your denomination so that I can hold you (as a group, not you personally) to those answers. Somehow, I don't think I'll get them.
Yours in Truth,
There has been an awful lot of just such idolizing of peace as an absolute virtue, in flat contradiction to a balanced reading of scripture, even at the very highest levels of the RCC. That is altogether noteworthy, and taking note of it does not automatically constitute prejudice.