Pope laments U.S. 'injustices' to blacks, Indians, reads the headline on MSNBC.com. But what has the

[sinkingfeeling]

Pope said about the 'injustices' done to Iraqis? Where is his criticism of Bush's unholy, immoral 'war' that has caused the deaths of a million innocent Iraqis and the displacement of 4 million more?



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24176725/

[patrice]

1. He would have to admit that "Pro-Life" IS a LIE to do that.

not happenin'

[HockeyMom]

2. No injustices to WOMEN, Father?

You cannot leave out half the population of the world. And your church, is the biggest against half the population.

Sorry, former catholic.

[patrice]

3. Me too. Their official reason for not ordaining Women, and, hence tolerating

the pathologies of a male-dominant clergy, amounts to something like: there never have been women priests, so, therefore, there should never be women priests.

[stillcool]

4. that will take a couple of generations...

long after the land is in the hands of the 'rightful' owners.

[BeFree]

5. God Damn America?

Who the hell is he to come over here and tell us what to do? Its obvious gawd wanted us to have slaves and kill off all the natives or he'd a sent the pope mobile over here 200 hundred years ago.

[Zynx]

9. There were virtually no Catholics over here so the Pope's influence wasn't significant back then.

[BeFree]

17. Wow

You've given the perfect excuse for gawd's failure to act.

You should get paid. Seriesly. I mean if DU ever lost Zynx's wisdom where would we end up?

[spanone]

6. the pope acts like a head of state...they should drop the tax exemption for churches

[RB TexLa]

14. I don't see what the Holy See being a sovereign state has to do with separation of state and church

in this country.

[ladjf]

7. Who asked that hypocritical bastard for his opinion?

[Zynx]

8. He has criticized the war plenty in other venues.

If he doesn't include every injustice he has lamented elsewhere in every speech he gives, he is somehow a hypocrite?

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Yes, but he needs to do it while he's in America, talking to the citizens.

[NNN0LHI]

13. And then he laughs and jokes with the person who ordered the killing

Kind of minimizes any previous criticism wouldn't you say?

Don

[marmar]

10. I guess Pope Rat Fink views Iraqis as favorably as he views gays and lesbians .....

n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

12. ...don't forget any politician who doesn't believe in criminalizing abortion

because in this sick man's mind, the only way one can be opposed to abortion is to criminalize it, and if you aren't on record as wanting to criminalize abortion, you can't receive communion.

Sick, sick man.

[RB TexLa]

15. My priest is very aware of the fact that I oppose criminalizing abortion and I receive communion

every week.


edited: I didn't notice you had "politician" in the line, but I have received communion beside a US Senator who opposes criminalizing abortion during a campaign and also no problem with her receiving either.

[bunkerbuster1]

16. I'm sure many, many other devout Catholics can say as much.

Point is, then-Cardinal Ratzinberger was instrumental in ensuring that churches could deny communion to politicians for that very view. so Kerry was fair game after that, in 2004.

[wpelb]

18. I believe a lot of Indians in the Americas suffered under the

Catholic Church's Jesuit missionaries, according to critics.

[spanone]

19. the pope is a politician