[sinkspur]

I'm just getting sick of some people who always have their "free market blinders" on. They often senselessly attack people who look at the market in a moral fasion. It gets absurd at times.

When's the last time the Pope had anything good to say about the free market? I can't recall, it's been so long.

He's also been on an "anti-US" jag of late, what with his opposition to the war on Iraq, this tweaking of capitalism, and his feeble response to Castro's latest outrages with his "we will continue to pursue democracy in Cuba."

I really don't think John Paul is calling the shots any more; instead he's reading the rants of Euro cardinals who deplore the United States.

[uncbuck]

I'm reminded of the old days, before there were alternative news sources, when only God hating liberals ran the press.

The entire speach is not posted above, just as the letter that was sent to the President was never out for publication and the sex scandal in the church is constantly in the headlines printing names of priests which have been aquitted.

The Pope, is attacked, because he sees materialism as a danger to man's soul, he was advising the President about his moral duty to be sure that war is the only answer, and because he is not quoted properly in a God-hating press regarding the evil deeds of a small percentage of ex-clergy.

Materialism is an evil that does pervade our society, and the Pope has a duty to warn and remind us about it. He is concerned, and rightly so, with our move toward replacing the True-God with the "Almighty Dollar".

The Pope sent the President a PRIVATE letter, at least I have not seen it. I do know that the catechism of the Church says that a leader must be absolutely sure that war is a last resort, that it is morally justified and done in such a way that innocents are protected. All of which GWB assures us was the case.(I believe the President was justified.)

The general press never mentions that the sexual scandal in the Catholic Church involves less than 1 tenth of a percent of the clergy, and that represents a lower percentage of sexual preditors than in the general population. That's not to say that the ministers involved should not be punished under the law, and that the Pope should perhaps be more vocal about it (Maybe he is, but the God-Hating liberal press won't print it).

In this world of political correctness, there is only one thing that's still open to true un-constrained hateful bashing, The Roman Catholic Church. Even many of my fellow christians of other denominations have a tendancy to do so.