[patriciaruth]

They did not control Hitler.

That's anti-catholic propaganda.

Neville Chamberlain did not control Hitler. Is that anti-Catholic propaganda or is that a fact?

Nobody controlled Hitler. We, the United States, had to destroy him. My point is that a speech by the Pope will not control Saddam either. Whatever he says, however good a man he is, however much truth his Church contains, it is not a worldly instrument that can control megalomaniac dictators bent on using WMD.

[Notwithstanding]

well, that post makes some sense - but it also falsely presumes that the supernatural forces in the world (of which the Church concerns it self even more than temporal events) are unimportant and not worth focusing upon