"Cardinal Pio Laghi visited Bush at the White House on March 5, 2003, to relay the pope's position that dialogue, not arms, should be used to resolve the crisis over Iraq, which the United States accused of harboring weapons of mass destruction."
When the Vatican has a real government and a military institution - which it dosen't and shouldn't - they maybe Bush should listen to them.
Like the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians, some of the Catholic Church's higher clergy have become an obnoxious bunch of pacifistic back-stabbing losers.
The U.S. should start billing the Vatican for the court cost of all those paedophile trials. Then maybe they'll shut up and mind their own business when it comes to international politics - of which they are apparently totally ignorant - just like the rest of the Euroweenies.
Recycled quips from Joe Stalin -- that's what passes for conservatism in these times.