[Gengis Khan]

"If Rome's muslims don't get to you before you're saved."

Hmmmm now you know where the Pope (and people like you) get their lessons on religious tolerance from. Then perhaps the descendents of Mussolini's Fascists supremacists (disguised as Christian radicals) and Muslim Nazis together can form super virulent strain of Catholic-Islamic radical group to start a Crusade-Jihad-Inquisition-Intifada-Pogrom to save the souls from going to hell by quickly sending all of them to heaven.

"I believe the Vicar of Rome is representative of Jesus the Christ, Son of Almighty God. So if you've the courage, take it up with him, why don't you? "

So the Pope has State powers? A Super Church-State? No wonder a Temple is so unimaginable on Vatican's soil.

[Cronos]

So the Pope has State powers? A Super Church-State? No wonder a Temple is so unimaginable on Vatican's soil.

Again, you talk through ignorance -- the Pope wears two hats -- the religious leader of the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics and the secular head of teh 0.3 sq km country called the Vatian. Is he the secular head of Indian Catholics? No. Indian Catholics are Indians, follow Indian lawa snd to a large extent Indian culture and customs. India has no gripe with the Vatican as communist China has

[Cronos]

Furthermore, teh Church also comments on activities in Italy -- but it has NO RIGHT to influence the government. It talks to the people of Italy -- they alone control Italy's government, not the Church

[saradippity]

Wasn't India divided in 1948 into Pakistan and India because Hindus and Islamists fought so bitterly and brutally and constantly? Does that hostility no longer exist?

If it doesn't than the world could learn some lessons from their solution. However, if it still exists maybe Islamists are making some forays into India and blaming it on Christians.