[count-your-change]

“That there have been “unbelievers” in positions of authority within the Church is beyond dispute. There still are today.”

As a Pope? Which ones of these who claim to the successor to Peter, Vicar of Christ, etc.?

I didn't write Benedict's speechs or the history of the Catholic and Muslim warfare in the Middle East.

[marshmallow]

Is the current plight of Christians in Syria, Iraq and other places no more than a window of opportunity to attack Catholicism? Or is your point here that this is an example of "what goes around, comes around" and that we've had this coming to us?

Is there some weird Jehovah's Witness Scripture interpretation which says that Catholics and Orthodox getting a good kicking from the Muslims, is all part of God's plan to punish the "Harlot of Rome"?

Still waiting.......