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I think he likes women who are meek and submissive and Mother Theresa types.

If I remember my Beatitudes, meekness is a virtue in men and women.

He was very cold to the Pakistani woman from the UN who visited him in the Vatican, according to a biographer ... The woman described telling him about how terrible some of the rules about birth control and abortion affected some catholic women in cultures where women have no equal rights whatsoever. She described his eyes as turning steely cold and assumed it was because few people dared to challenge him, especially women.

My eyes grow steely cold just reading this. The woman in question was an ambassador for the Culture of Death. The Pope reacted exactly as he should have when such an emissary of Satan entered his presence. Birth control and abortion are condemned by the Church for very legitimate reasons. These reasons should become all the more clear to people as science sans ethics continues to create new grotesqueries by playing god with human sexuality.

She got the message.

Probably not. I'll bet she's a member of 'Catholics for Free Choice.'

I don't know what went wrong with my keyboard. Yes I understand the reasons for the rules. I don't understand sweeping human pain under the rug in the name of rules though.

I don't mean this in a mean-spirited manner, but some of you hardliners come across as steely and cold, as if rules are everything and people are robots. Good robots obey all the rules to the last jot and tit and bad robots get their hardwiring scrambled by all the conformity and repression and plasticity, just like my keyboard.

There must be a happy medium somewhere in all this. Don't you think that is the reason some of these priests go haywire in the first place? Growing up in such a rule-laden atmosphere takes all the spontaneity and fun out of life. Can't you see? Or do you want to sweep everything that doesn't fit under the rug?