Reply #101: where does the Pope come in

[Malva Zebrina]

Someone said he eliminated communism from Poland--I point out that the country in which communism was eliminated,Poland, is now , imo, immoral for joining in with Geroge Bush's invasion, atrocities, and murders in Iraq even while the Pope issued a papal statement against the invasion.

Last time I looked, Poland was a country, mainly Catholic, by some 95% and if you think that is painting a broad brush, words fail me.

I merely point to the irony.

Many Catholic Churches in this country involved themselves fully in the last election and focused in on abortion rights as a reason for believers to not elect John Kerry.

Even though Kerry is a Catholic, his sensible and fair response to a question asked in one of the debates, as to his duties as a president leader of a diverse culture re abortion, was not good enough for those who want to tell others what to do with their lives and will not be satisfied until legislation is brought about that eliminates choice.

The irony there is that, in the midst of a brutal and savage slaughter of a war,where some 100,000 innocent people, half women and children, were murdered using trumped up lies as an excuse, an unjust war, according to their Pope's teaching, was ignored by the priests who were narrowly focused on eliminating abortion rights and, to me, taking away the crux of humanity, the right to make decisions for one's own health and have that decision followed out using a clean and a safe environment, is immoral.