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I don't need to find the right Pope, I don't need to find the right pastor. If you do and you need to put your faith in him that is fine with me, I don't object to it, I don't want to disuade you from that point of view. The Pope is a man, nothing more, nothing less. He may be a Vicar of Christ, but he is capable of fallibiliy vis-a-vis doctrine, no ifs ands or buts about it. The now defunct sins of old tell me that. The ease with which an annullment can be had in the Catholic Church today, tell me that.

The Catholic Church is not the chosen Church any more than the Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, etc., etc., etc. It is a community of Christians who get some things right and some things wrong.

His audience with Tariq Aziz is an example of something very, very wrong! His notion that only the UN can sanction a just war, is very, very wrong. We know what the Pope thinks about greed and materialism, and war and peace what we don't know that much about is what the Pope thinks about sloth and incontinence, self defense and the individual.

I will gladly take it upon myself to inform the Pope that sometimes Love carries a sword, and if he can't or won't address that, then that is something he'll have to sort out for himself.