[5thGenTexan]

I dunno. Christ hung out in some pretty rough places during His ministry. That is where you find the unsaved.

I am not Catholic so please don't take offense to my ignorance of Church leadership structure, but its my guess is that you don't get to the Vatican level of the Church, much less be selected Pope, without having been through a persecution for your faith a time or two. His response to these attacks may just might get through to someone - maybe not the attacker but someone else watching.

And the haters will have to 'follow' the Pope to keep up with what he's saying, right? God can use that exposure for His good.

[agere_contra]

Well said!

[HiTech RedNeck]

One would hope those who are taking pot shots at the pope (without even a competing theology that they could express in a form that held water for five minutes) would stop and listen. It’s so much liberal sloganeering though. Alinsky and his disciples never included “listen to your opponents” in their rule book. To do that, would be to risk all.

Oh, and I am not a Roman Catholic either, I disagree with some Roman Catholic theology. But cheap pot shots are cheap pot shots.

[NYer]

I am not Catholic so please don't take offense to my ignorance of Church leadership structure, but its my guess is that you don't get to the Vatican level of the Church, much less be selected Pope, without having been through a persecution for your faith a time or two. His response to these attacks may just might get through to someone - maybe not the attacker but someone else watching.

Your reaction and response reflects catholic theology. Thank you!

[EBH]

Bump!

You don’t save souls preaching to the choir.