[Byron_the_Aussie]

>...I don't recall the Pope saying word one of prayer for all of the women and children being raped, experimented on with biological and chemcial weapons, having limbs cut off without regard or shot without trial...

Oh.

You're privy to the Pope's prayers, are you?

[onedoug]

He never seems to have mentioned them so publically, as now that the United States is prepared to confront this evil.

[Beck_isright]

"You're privy to the Pope's prayers, are you?"

So what you are saying is that despotism is ok in private according to the Pope and communism (now) in public is acceptable??? The Catholic Church has fallen in these Protestant eyes. First the blind eye turned to the rape of children in America and now the torture and murder of innocents in Iraq. When he speaks publically and quits inviting the Foreign Ministers of dictatorships (Aziz) into his offices, then and only then will I start to move back to respecting the "Church". In the mean time, I shall be part of the pragmatic realists who say the Pope and Catholic Church is nothing more than a bunch of dirty old men who have a political agenda which favors the Eurocrap.