I’m not looking for remorseful gestures either, I don’t care if the pontiff is ashamed, proud or feels absolved from any responsibility.

The Israeli’s rolled out the red carpet, took extreme security measures and welcomed his Holiness with top honors.

Benedict XVI reciprocated with an inciting & commanding declaration to a crowd of Arabs that a 23rd Islamic state be established in the center of Israel.

Exploiting Israel’s safety umbrella to give speeches in support of dismantling the very security barriers that provide Ratzinger his slanderous forum is NAIVE & reveals a lack in evolution from his days of compulsory decision making.

They need to update their templates.

Those genuinely worried about the Pope’s commitments might read _Without Roots_.

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

In aiding this former Nazi, the Pope, in his most recent anti-semitic endeavor, you are in the position of the hausfrau who when the SS showed up for her Jewish neighbors, pulled the blinds down and went back to polishing the end table.

The “Palestinians” WERE given land in the Balfour declaration, the 1938 White Paper AND the 1947 UN settlement. That land was called Jordan.
Please note that the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians ( hereafter ATCTP) want to return to the 1967 boundaries. That is because they took land from Israel in ’48 that Israel took back in ’67. No, if the ATCTP were serious, they would recognize Israel’s right to exist, stop teaching anti-semitism in their schools, stop their terror campaign and agree to the original UN partition boundaries.
That isn’t going to happen. So one side will be slaughtered. It is not within the power of the west to prevent the slaughter. All we can do is pick the winner.
You and your bud, the Nazi Pope, are picking the Muslims.

“[Amy Sullivan] implies that the Vatican is chilled about Notre Dame’s decision, unlike Cardinals George, DiNardo, Stafford and Archbishop Dolan. No, it isn’t. The Pope, for perfectly good reasons, is leaving the protests to the local Church rather than turn Fr John Jenkins’s disastrous invitation into an international diplomatic incident.”

The reason Thompson mentions is the principle of subsidiarity, key to Catholic social teaching, which holds that a higher authority should not do what properly belongs to a lower authority. The first response in a case like this properly belongs to the American bishops, and they have made that response; the Pope evidently does not see a need to do anything else at this time. It doesn’t fit our notions of public relations, but it’s how the Church works.

I had an aunt, a wonderful woman, who was excommunicated. She was married to my uncle, who’d been married once before, so, technically, her marriage to him was invalid, and she couldn’t go to communion, or be considered a full member of the church, for most of her adult life. They had no problem disciplining her. And the mother of my best friend in school was in the same position; excommunicated, no communion, bad woman, very bad!

Again, no problem laying down the law here. Yet, somehow Obama can support abortion—supposedly something the church is very strongly opposed to, and he gets not only a pass, but even the pope himself won’t come out and criticize him?

Don, yes, good point; if the Pope isn’t political, he should stop pushing for a Palestinian state. If he is political, then he ought to be criticized, just like any other politician.