I'd like to post a response to some articles I've seen on FreeRepublic. I'm no specialist in any of matters mentioned below, just a humble Polish student who would like clarify a few things about the pope and the Catholic Church, according to my knowledge and understanding. And so I hope to be informative to many of you, so that you can avoid some mistakes of thought done by many journalists and publishers posted on FreeRepublic. 1. Authoritarian power By all my knowledge, Vatican is no democracy of any kind (maybe except for Cardinals College choosing the pope in a...