[Aquinasfan]

"Whoever, therefore, shall determine upon this holy pilgrimage, and shall make his vow to God to that effect, and shall offer himself to him for sacrifice, as a living victim, holy and acceptable to God, shall wear the sign of the cross of the Lord on his forehead or on his breast.

The Catholic Church has been bashed for centuries regarding Her role in the Crusades. It's about time the Church got some credit for them. It was the Catholic kingdoms that drove the Mohammedans out of Europe.

[philosofy123]

Right on, brother!

I hate the stupid media in the west that is constantly dissing this holy mission to defend the Christian holyland from the barbaric Moslems. These losers strted in the Saudi Arabia. That is where Arabs are, and where Moslems belong. They concored most of Africa, some of Europe and Asia. They converted people by F O R C E to Islam, they changed their language to Arabic, and now all these countries that were never Arabs are forced to call themselves Arab nations!

Barbarism and hate from the stone age, is sitll alive and well in the Islamic hearts.

[Destro]

IT WAS THE ORTHODOX WHO LIBERATED THE BALKANS FROM ISLAM. The Pope's sack and crusade againt Orthodox Constantinople helped Islam more than any other military act by the Muslims. The crusades failed because the Pope thought he was a King rather than a Bishop.