[frogjerk]

I disagree. The Pope is not apologizing.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Look, you read into it what you want but there is no way you can say that you see a courageous man standing behind his original words.

He has let us down. You have no idea how badly I feel about this.

Last night when my husband told me about the original part of the story, I was feeling really good about the Pope and what he said and now today, I feel like the air has been let out of my balloon. I am not Catholic but I was so buoyed to see a man of courage and now this.