[wardaddy]

I like Catholics and respect their traditions and occasionally attend their services but I think this otherwise fine Pope should refrain from these admonitions. I find it odd that the only Priests in recent modern history to endorse force (indirectly or otherwise) have been the liberation clergy in the third world....Central America usually. I suppose there are some Catholic clergy in Ulster who support the IRA at least tacitly. Now we have a Pope who I generally admire asking for restraint and all that sort of dovey talk when Israel is fighting for her existence. Is there a recent time where the Vatican has endorsed force for the right side?

East Timor??

[FITZ]

The Pope really said nothing about the millions of Christian and animist Sudanese being slaughtered by Muslims, he hasn't spoken out in defense of the Israelis being butchered by suicide bombers ---I wonder what's up with him?