They did not control Hitler. They did not protect altar boys. This is a worldly function that the Vatican cannot perform.
It's the Pope's job is to tell everyone to let their enemies slap them on the cheek and take their clothes and smile, but it isn't the American way.
After you give all your money to the poor and become a missionary for Christ, you can take the moral high ground.
Until then, I reserve my right to be cynical about organizatons that call on US to give away our treasure while holding onto theirs and call on US to let megalomaniac dictators bomb and nuke us without trying to prevent it.
You can stick all that hot air where the sun don't shine, Patriciaruth.
The FACTS are that Pope John Paul II was a tireless warrior in the fight against Communism, so much so that the KGB engineered a hit on him. A very strong argument could be made that without his effort that virus would still be going strong. What's your track record for freedom, that you feel qualified to criticise a man like him? You made a cheap shot, you were called on it, and now instead of showing some character and apologising you're trying to bluster your way out of it.
Yes the ancient Catholic teaching of slap-happy nudism has always been a sticking point for Puritan America...
That's anti-catholic propaganda. Why were priests and nuns thrown in concentration camps, if the church was friendly to Hitler? Why did Golda Meir thank the church? Why did the chief rabbi of Rome convert to Roman Catholicism in thanks?