[irishjuggler]

I guess what you're saying is that the existence of some bad apples in the priesthood means that all Catholic priests should be maligned, our churches should be destroyed and the Vatican should never utter another word about anything, right? Normally, I'd ignore your brand of garbage, but I've been up all night doing my taxes, and I'm not in a great mood.

[grania]

You're not totally alone here:

1. The actions of the Israelis at the church are reprehensible...it is putting me over the impartiality edge.

2. The whole priest scandal is horrible...but its only connection to this is that it takes away from the church's moral authority to deal with issues where its former moral authority could help.

I deplore the loss of life, Jewish, Christian, Arab, unaligned. And no one life is any more or less important than another. The world situation is horrible. And rhetoric that denigrates all Palestinians and maligns their decency and aspirations as a national group is not helping the situation.

(Done with those taxes?)

[dreadme]

I am catholic, and this is my call.

The church didn't have much sucess in keeping the jews alive in WWII, so it really needs to keep it's mouth shut, except if it wants to condemn the killers of innocents with suicide bombers, and let the Israelis make the place safe for them to live in.

[Godfollow]

I guess you realize that the Catholic Church believes that IT has replaced the Jews as God's chosen people, and that the Jews no longer have a divine right to the Holy Land. Therefore it's views toward Israel are more hostile than not, and will side with the Palestinians anytime there is a ruffle.

The Catholic Church has a long history of hostility toward the Jews and justifies that hostility by branding them as Christ killers (it is all of humanity that are Christ killers, for Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world, and it was pre ordained by God). So, to hear that the Vatican condemns Israel for going after murderers is not jolting news.