[Proud2BAmerican]

The Pope usually sides with the despots

What a steaming pile of bullshit.

[ultima ratio]

Nice turn of phrase on your part. But what I said is still true. He sided with Saddam. He sides with Castro. He sides with Mahoney, for that matter. He loved Law and Weakland. The people never mattered, not in Iraq, not in California. This is a pope who sides with authority--whether it has the approval of the masses or not. That is the record. Check it out.

[ultima ratio]

I will grant one caveat: he will condemn authorities--when they rule from the right.