[WriteOn]

I'd defend the pope but then I'd get banned from FreeRepublic.com:-)

What a hit piece this is. As if averting an imminent war requires the same policy measures as resolving the ongoing battle with evil and the historicity of AmChurch.

UR - you're a schmuck.

[ultima ratio]

Hit piece, my eye. Dreher is a serious Catholic telling the simple truth. People like you can do nothing but bluster and use ad hominem attacks--since you can't refute the reality. This Pope has been all over the place lately, sending envoys hither and yon, and working himself into a lather over Iraq. But he has been absolutely silent for twenty-five years about the scourge of clerical sexual abuse that is systemic in the Church. Those are the facts.

[gcruse]

As if averting an imminent war requires the same policy measures as resolving the ongoing battle with evil and the historicity of AmChurch.

Where does it say the same measures should be applied?  The point, I think, is that very little recognition and certainly miniscule papal exposure has been spent on the sex abuse problem, yet they leap at telling Bush what he should or should not do in protecting his 'flock.'