[Antoninus]

They know.

So you're equating the Pope to Stalin, eh? Your statement is scurrilous, ill-informed, and beneath contempt.

[Jim Noble]

So you're equating the Pope to Stalin, eh?

Not at all.

I am equating the ignorance of those who say, "If only the Pope knew" to the ignorance of those who said, "If only Stalin knew".

What do you think-that the Vatican does not hear these things on a daily basis from the faithful in the United States? Do you seriously contend that the problem of blatant, open promotion of homosexuality by Catholic religious and some bishops in the United States is unknown in Rome?

Is that what you think the explanation is?