[GirlShortstop]

...with a post that is, thankfully, so damn long no one will ever read it. (Of course, if they scroll down to the screen name, no one will read it regardless.)

LOL.  Ya know, I think that's funny and sad at the same time:  this thread contains the complete text (number 253) of JPII's letter, but *clearly* it has gone unread by the majority of those who opine.  Interesting to note that some consider demonstration of their cut and paste "skills" more worthwhile than discussion of the news item itself.  Sad that posting acumen [among other things] stinks, eh?
FReegards.

[Polycarp IV]

Definitely. Things haven't improved around here during my brief absence.

[Bluntpoint]

This one is for you my churlish fuddy duddy. Mormons are good at this kind of test. That is why they are going to take over the world. Except for Marie Osmond. I don't thing she is quite as committed as her brothers.

[cebadams]

Interesting to note that some consider demonstration of their cut and paste "skills" more worthwhile than discussion of the news item itself.

Needs repeating.

[Polycarp IV]

this thread contains the complete text (number 253) of JPII's letter, but *clearly* it has gone unread by the majority of those who opine.

Any man or woman of good will can and does grasp the gospel context of JPII's message here.

However, I get the Zenit updates by email, and when I read this I could just envision the headlines and bigoted comments that would pour forth from the frenzied and feverish anti-Catholic minds in this country.

The mind-numbed anti-Catholics here certainly have not failed to fulfill my worst fears.

Frankly, Saddam has killed and tortured maybe 10 million innocents in the last 30 years.

We have killed and tortured 40 million in the same time, "legally," while raping third world countries of their resources and giving them population control as a consolation prize.

And the thugs on this thread just cannot understand why the Pope might not be impressed by the damnable American capitalist culture of death hypocrites.