[eleni121]

I am aware of the common myths you have posted and realize they are just that - myths, insignificant at that. However, how do you explain the following more significant facts:

The Pope kissing the Koran? The RC Church's protecting the homosexual priests? The RC Church insisting on fighting against the Christian Orthodox Faith in the newly freed nations previously under the Communist yoke? The lack of apology for the Croatian Catholic genocidal regime in WWII?

C'mon explain these facts!

[constitutiongirl]

The Pope was not kissing the Koran, it was a book of the Gospels. That oft posted photo is of the Pope and the Patriarch of the Chaldean Rite Catholic Church. If you had bothered to check the source for that photo or even realized the difference in dress between a Priest and an iman, you wouldn't have made that assumption.

[history_matters]

1) Not the Koran - that's a myth;
2) The rank and file together with wiser elements of the leadership of the Catholic Church are beginning the process of cleaning out the homosexual predators;
3) The Nazi-compliant Croatian regime - while thoroughly abhorrent and a tool of the evil one - is no more the fault of the Church than the Serbian Orthodox Church is to blame for the mass murders committed by Serbian troops in recent years;
4) The Catholic Church is trying to regain Byzantine-rite Catholic churches and properties which were given by the Communists to the Orthodox Church -- does that make the Orthodox Church responsible for that bit of Communist wickedness? No, of course not.