"I would advise him to stick to matters involving the soul - and we'll handle the 'material world' ..."
Maybe they are one and the same to him. Didn't Christ say there would always be poor among us?
Does a pope ever declare his wealth???
This church has a real credibility problem by taking Saddam's side when it was Saddam's way rob, rape, imprison, and slaughter millions of his own people.
Source? The Pope told Saddam to comply with UN sanctions and resolutions or suffer the consequences.