[Caipirabob]

The Catholic Church has been poisened at the highest levels and the Pope is being controlled by those who would destroy the Church from within. There is very little credibility coming from Rome these days. They can't even keep their own house clean and per the old saying "Those who live in glass houses..."

This has been a very sad time for my Catholic friends.

[Dat]

I'm not catholic, and I support(ed) the war in Iraq, but I think the pope is being pragmatic. By expressing opposition to the war he is in part keeping the Muslim fundamentalists from turning this into a Christian versus Muslim thing, which in the end is no good for any of the parties involved (with perhaps the exception of the fundamentalists).