Here we go...Another priest thinking that the drug dealers are going to give their guns and the drugs just by listening to him...Sure

Why are religious people so DUMB and think that the bad guys are going to listen? The Mexicans are leaving truck loads of beheaded people under bridges, and this octogenarian that is opposed to any advancement into the 21 century -such as gay marriage, allowing priests to marry, against birth control,etc- is going to make a dent into these problems?

He could have been more honest saying that his visit is to make sure that the Mexicans STILL remember that the is a guy called the Pope in Rome, that gives the orders about what NOBODY is doing: birth control and the 10 commandments re the laughing stock of that religion! Nobody cares.

Papa es maricon. Mira, los zapatos.

Yes, well IRESPOND, this octogenarian who you say can do nothing about our world’s problems, ----(especially because his church’s moral teachings do not agree with yours) ---- what you say can only be true only providing his God does not exist or cannot do anything about it either. ++++ I suppose that’s the real message you were trying to get across here anyway? +++++ Sad as the world’s sufferings truly are, to compare that to eternal sufferings or rewards --- there is no comparison. Our spiritual paths reamain paramount. The sufferings of the poor is never desired, but it remains their virtue. It is also the highest calling of Christians to care for them. I cannot tell you why Almighty God subjects mankind to the trial, but I can tell you this God is real and his words are real.

How very sad indeed to see you blaspheme the pope. You have missed the point entirely! You are the walking dead that the pope is talking about.

wasn't it just the other day we read about the cartels providing security for the pope? does the pope really think he has any say in what the cartels are going to do? what a joke. the pope won't be in the air on his way back to the vatican ,, when the killing will start again.. if they wait that long.i'm sure their drug business didn't stop, because the pope was in town. or the stampede of illegals into the US. so really what was his purpose anyway? who gives a dam what the pope has to say about anything ????not the cartels... maybe he was in mexico to get his share of the drug money.. the pope doesn't live on bread alone. it's all about money and politics with the catholic church. doesn't matter if you are big sheep or little sheep,, you all have to pay up.

This isnt "just" another Priest. He is in fact, the Pope. All respect should be offered irrespective of your beliefs.

Why are religious people so DUMB

Here we go again more from the know it all atheists, they just happen to click on these articles to show their great and powerful knowledge not to circumcise religion..

Tell me", when you can solve the riddles of the world then you may get respected, otherwise I know I can count on you people to be disrespectful.

How very sad indeed to see you blaspheme the pope

HOW VERY SAD INDEED TO SEE THAT YOU BLASPHEME ME....I am not different than him, except that I do not blow white smoke out my A****

Tell me ONE good thing that this man has done. At least the other pope, the Polish was more intelligent.

Just because you are the pope does not mean that you are GOD or that you are not just a DUMB human being

He is in fact, the Pope. All respect should be offered irrespective of your beliefs.

Why?

This isnt "just" another Priest. He is in fact, the Pope. All respect should be offered irrespective of your beliefs

He is the head of the union of "Phedophiles United"

So you are an atheist IRESPOND, why should anything you say then surprise us? We get your ill-advised bravado. I am sure it was the godless among us who have done the most to care for the world's poor and not the Church. You have ignored or fought off a thousand messages in life to remain a disbeliever in God. Taking that lack of wisdom into account, your views on the pope or religion are of no value to anyone.

Lying little man. This church and this weasel do not demand any respect. In fact their edifice of corruption and deception of 2000 years is long overdue to fall. Disgusting little freak who has never experienced anything more holy than @!$%#ting in a gold toilet.

While there are over 1.2 Billion members of the Catholic Church, for my purpose I will address the 68.6 million in the US alone that the left is hellbent on demonizing. This group that you are dead set against makes a large and powerful voting block (which you like to pretend doesn't exist). As a rule, it doesn't necessarily align itself with one party or the other. The dividing issue between the Church and the left is usually abortion, but in all social policy areas they have agreed with the Dems. Now, however, it seems the Dems no longer want those votes. I wonder if they realize that in the swing state of Florida, 26% of the people their are Catholic? Or 53% in Pennsylvania? So, even if you do hate anyone or anything Catholic, since it is the cool "in" thing to do now, might want to consider a group you are trying very hard to alienate, just as the right is doing its level best to alienate women and minorities. Between the two parties, you will manage to disgust the majority of the Americans in this country that are solidly in the middle. But, hey, go for it. Enjoy yourselves. Be proud of your hate!

You have ignored or fought off a thousand messages in life to remain a disbeliever in God. Taking that lack of wisdom into account, your views on the pope or religion are of no value to anyone.

You have absolutely NO IDEA if I believe in God or not. One thing is for sure: I do not believe in the God of the Organized Christians or Catholics .

Pushing your believes in others, telling that the 10 commandments are the truth, when in reality the catholics are FAMOUS for infidelity, abuse and other things.

The one decent catholics were the monks of Old AMerica, that saved the Indians from people like you.

it seems the Dems no longer want those votes. I wonder if they realize that in the swing state of 26% of the people their are Catholic? Or 53% in Pennsylvania? So, even if you do hate anyone or anything Catholic,

How nice of you to remind us that the elections must be about RELIGION...I wonder when that one was coming....There the real reason of the stupid GOP making those asinine comments that all the catholics believe....The irony

How fun to know you think I am a member of the GOP. I am not. I just love to point out that both sides are so full of righteous hate that they are alienating all different types of people in this country. I never addressed my comment to you, Irespond, I made my post to the world in general. But, if you are representing the views of the president of the United States, you make it hard for some to vote for him.

IRESPOND SAYS: You have absolutely NO IDEA if I believe in God or not.

Your utterly blasphemous words gives me a pretty strong indicator. Anyone who believes in an afterlife could never be so daringly foolish, IMO. So you have another "god" apparently? Well, fantasize away, but that does not lessen your accountability. What do you believe then, since you are seemingly so angered by my suggesting something about your beliefs or non-belief? Is your "god" in favor of hateful words and feelings towards others as you have shown?

Or am I supposed to be the gentle Christian who turns the other cheek when you revile the pope and the Catholic faith? That is not always what Jesus expects of us. We welcome persecution at the sake of being bold at times, not always just meek. But you resent even that --- you cannot handle any opposition of words and denounce us for "pushing our religion on you." Really? Are you that easily upended? I suppose you prefer the multi-media's messages of sexual freedom and pleasure being "pushed on you" instead.

How fun to know you think I am a member of the GOP.

Sorry...I never said that YOU were in the GOP...You just proved my point.

Or am I supposed to be the gentle Christian who turns the other cheek when you revile the pope and the Catholic faith?

Yeah! Isn't that what the bible says? or you just read it Sundays and forget about it the rest of the week? I thought so...

Sorry IRESPOND, but you do not appear to be a very good listener, and surely do not display a satisfactory comprehension of Scripture. Maybe spiritual blindness is more easily forgiven in heaven that we realize?

I can see my task here is futile. Perhaps the Virgin Mary was so right when she told an Ecuadorian visionary that "most only come to know God on bended knees."

The sufferings of the poor is never desired, but it remains their virtue. It is also the highest calling of Christians to care for them. I cannot tell you why Almighty God subjects mankind to the trial, but I can tell you this God is real and his words are real.

Nice sentiment.

Bigotry, prejudice, and mindless hate are always ugly.

And there are always innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire. Quite often the innocent are deliberately targeted.

There is a long history of bigotry, prejudice, and mindless hatred in the United States, that stretches back nearly as far as our legacy of Freedom and Truth and Justice.

Whether it's

Prejudice against Africans

Prejudice against women

Prejudice against immigrants

Prejudice against the poor

Prejudice against gays

Prejudice against Latinos

Prejudice against Jews

Prejudice against Muslims

Prejudice against Mexico

or

Prejudice against Catholics

it's always ugly and it's always hurtful and it's always WRONG.

Leroy licks balls

Leroy Brown: You are a totally ignorant fool.

Sat What,

Leroy demonstrates this in every comment on every board. He is beyond explanation or help.

Yeah, well you intelligent god believing conservatives will just have to put up with us dumbass, atheistic liberals' stupid comments. Little thing called "freedom of speach" which this MSN blogosphere does try to thwart as much as possible!

@LEROY THE CLOWN ; it's SPEECH ; and not all liberals are stupid enough to play with the almighty creator. we leave that form of hipocrisy to the '' REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE TEA PARTY '' M O R O N I '' WORSHIPPING POLYGAMIST H I P O C R I T S !!!!!!!!!!!

Umm, what Leroy said was correct. That is exactly what the pope tells people. Just look at Africa. John Paul II and now Benedict continue to tell them to not use condoms resulting many more deaths to HIV as well as too many children.

Leave it to ignorant people like Leroy to post something so stupid. Some of you seriously need an education.

The teaching of the Catholic Church is not to have as many children as possible. Rather, that sexual intimacy belongs in the life-long union of one man and one woman (Holy Matrimony), and together the couple cooperates with God's Will in the creation of children.

It would be great to read Pope Paul VI's ground-breaking encyclical, "Humanae Vitae" (On Human Life) from 1968. Very controversial at the time, it has proven over the years to be very prophetic in how secular society has cheapened human sexuality and subsequently life itself.

Lets tell it like it truly is !! The More kids the more money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Leave it to ignorant people like Leroy to post something so stupid. Some of you seriously need an education.

Leave it to the catholic schools to convert people into ATHEISTS after a few years.

No one is arguing your freedom of choice to worship or not.

But why are you condemning others for exercising THEIR Constitutional rights to worship? Please explain.

I can understand people who despise pedophilia, because I do, too. I can understand people who are hurt by the stand of the Church against homosexual marriage, because I happen to think that, with the right partner, marriage is in the best interests of both the individuals and the society they live in, and I suspect that is true no matter what your orientation.

But there are plenty of Americans who are non-Catholic who are pedophiles. There are plenty of Americans who are non-Catholics who oppose gay marriage.

So what's with all the hate? Please explain.

I should add that not all Catholics are pedophiles or object to gay marriage.

I've always thought, Edward, that the large majority of people do NOT "feel good" nearly enough.

Edward:

I take it you live in an "If it feels good believe in it world".

Excuse me Edward, I do have to point out that the vast majority of evil perpetrated in the world has been perpetrated in the name of Christianity, including the holocaust, which murdered 6 million people. I am 8 years old, but I would like to know how your god sacrifi.......

We live in a "If it feels good, do it" world

So what...Are you going to make it illegal? What you should understand is to EDUCATE the people, so they know the CONSEQUENCES of doing something that feels good.

For instance, smiling once in a while feels good, and may make another person feel better...WOw! What a concept!

leroy, don't take these folks seriously. You want to know who you are talking to?? These 'good god-fearin' folks?? Think in your mind that painting of the man and the woman with the pitchfork..."American Gothic". You see the ignorant look on their Jesus faces?? That's who you're arguing with...give it up...they can barely count to 10.

Dude, Ferdinand and Issabella are long gone.

Besides, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Besides, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Do you know who Rick Santorum is????

History

teaches

nothing ?

History teaches nothing?

Apparently not.

More Catholics were executed because of their religion in England in a twenty year period from 1615 to 1635 than the sum total of all the people executed in Spain during the 800 year history of the Inquisition.

Who do you think the primary benefactors of the criminalization of drugs are? First it's the crims whom produce and peddle the stuff--they would be OUT OF BIZ OVER NIGHT if the US of A allowed it's citizens to poison themselves in such a fashion legally. Indeed the drug cartel's are major pushers of harsh narcotic laws from Washington. They aren't stupid. Just as moonshining crime, money and violence went away in a stroke of a pen ending Prohibition.

Not all crime associated with narcotics is BECAUSE they are illegal--but all the cross-border wars ARE DUE TO OUR LAWS.

Yes, religious freaks!!

Maybe he thought he was in Kansas

The Pink Panties is what disturbs me.

I get it now. Matching colors. Nuevo chic

When they fart

The smell stays with them all day

They carry the smell of their ideaology with them

Why does the Pope wear Red Shoes with his White Papal robe?

The devil wears Prada comes to mind

want to be even more freaked?? maybe...just maybe..he was on-line shopping for those shoes at Emeraldcity.com when a child was being molested.

Who says he is trying to fix other countries? He is just proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus to the world. As for irrelevant - well, look at the crowd who came to greet him, including the President and First Lady of Mexico. Plus the media is giving it all this attention. Yes, irrelevant indeed.

Who says he is trying to fix other countries? He is just proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus to the world. As for irrelevant - well, look at the crowd who came to greet him, including the President and First Lady of Mexico. Plus the media is giving it all this attention. Yes, irrelevant indeed.

He should use his influence to tell people that LOVE does not discriminate, and it CAN EXIST between people of the same sex, or that using BIRTH CONTROL is probably a good idea, because small families tend to have a better standard of living and education, he also could said that there is NOTHING WRONG with a priest having a wife -since the catholic church only accepts men in the clergy-

Otherwise you are just sanctimonious

Thankfully he is. And the Catholic Church does not teach that life on earth is a cheap rehearsal. On the contrary, life here is very important and must be lived well, in cooperation with God's Will and for man's greatest benefit. Now consider what atheism and secular society teaches about human life - I'd side with the Catholic Church on this one.

So are these words from your Papal Leader keeping with God's Will and for man's greatest benefit? Do YOU benedictineacc side with your Pope when he speaks these words?

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.

In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.

“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.

“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than' and a ‘worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

Do you side with the Catholic Church and your Pope that child pornography is considered normal and that sex between and adult and a child is not evil?

Or do you side with your Pope and the Catholic Church that your pope should never be prosecuted for his allowing one priest, who admitted he raped hundreds of deaf boys in Wisconsin to continue being a priest instead of defrocking this self admitted rapist of children and having this perverted pedophile priest, who raped DEAF CHILDREN prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows? Do you side with him and the rest of the church where he allowed another priest to continue working with boys and raping them, when even his own psychiatrists said this priest was dangerous and a pedophile and should only be allowed to work around girls?

Do you side with the Catholic Church in Cardinal Timothy Dolan's words about the victims of priest rape:

Dolan also explained that he wanted to keep the statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims to one-year, because if the church gets sued, "The perpetrators don’t suffer. There’s no burden on them. What suffers are the services and the ministries of the apostolates that we’re doing now. Because where does the money come from? So the bishops of 30 years ago that allegedly may have reassigned abusers, they don’t suffer. They’re dead. So the people that suffer are those who are being served right now by the church. We feel that’s a terribly unjust burden."

Do you side with him and agree that victims of these priests should never be able to sue the church for the harm caused to them and that by doing so it would cause more harm to the church? Do you agree that just because some of the priests who raped these children and the bishops who covered it up may be dead, this should block all lawsuits against the church by the victims? Do you agree that it is more damaging to the church if the victims are allowed to sue the church? Do you agree that it is more important to agree that the church should not suffer for it's evils of it's priests and it's leaders, especially the Pope, and the hell with the suffering of the victims of perverted pedophile priest rape and those who covered it up?

Do you side with the leader Bill Donohue of the Catholic League of Religious and Civil Rights, which is supported and funded by the Roman Catholic Church when this man attacks priest rape victims saying that all of them are liars and gold diggers and then attacks and does his best to put out of business one support group called SNAP: Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests because SNAP fights for the victims of pedophile priests and are partly responsible for doing their best to have the Pope and three other Cardinals prosecuted in the World Court at the Hague for crimes against humanity and children?

Do you agree that this should be done to the victims of priest rape and the support groups that help them?

Do you support the actions of Bishop John McCormack of the New Hampshire Diocese in his destruction of records of pedophile priests and then getting rewarded by the RCC and it's leaders with a $50,000 condo for life?

Do you agree with the destruction of these records? Do you agree with this bishop being paid off with a free $50,000 condo?

Inquiring minds want to know seeing you like to side with the Catholic Church and it's teachings so much and slam atheism and secular society. See atheism and secular society says it is wrong to molest and rape children. It is wrong to make child pornography, it is wrong to cover up child rape, it is wrong to attack the victims of priest rape. It is wrong to transfer one pedophile rapist priest from one parish to another so they may rape more children. It is wrong with secular society and atheists to not turn these rapist of children in to man's authorities so they may be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows.

consider what atheism and secular society teaches about human life

It teaches that there is no GOD out there to come and solve your problems. It teaches that we MUST respect each other not because we will burn in hell for eternity, but because it is the HUMAN thing to do.

It teaches KIDS to think for themselves and to respect nature, and that our planet is only ONE, and it is in the crapper because the catholic church has preached for thousands of years that having children is the best thing...Sorry, it is overrated and it cost a lot of money and a lot or resources to the planet.

Every 19 minutes

A citizen dies from

Phamaceutical prescription medication

In the U.S.A.

Right on, John Ste!! You tell it like it is. Keep up the good work.

Don't you believe that. Hitler also thought he could do as he wished, and he lost. Fascists thugs always lose.

So do you agree with your Holy Fathers assessment that child pornography is considered normal and that sex between an adult and a child is not evil?

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s

In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered "normal" by society.

"In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children," the Pope said.

"It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a 'better than' and a 'worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself."

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popersquos-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-15035449.html#ixzz1q2G9dMLo

IN ALL CIVILIZED COUNTRIES, CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS AND ADULTS WHO RAPE CHILDREN GO TO PRISON!!!!! IN SOME COUNTRIES, CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS AND RAPISTS ARE PUT TO DEATH. ALL CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS AND RAPISTS DESERVE AT LEAST PRISON TIME AND I ADVOCATE YOU RAPE A CHILD, YOU DO DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY.

Do you agree that your Pope should be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows for his allowing one priest who admitted to raping and molesting hundreds of deaf boys in Wisconsin to continue to work as a priest instead of defrocking this admitted child rapist and having him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Or how he allowed another admitted child molester who was diagnosed as dangerous, a pedophile and should only work around girls, and the Pope not only ignored the advice of his own psychiatrists, he allowed this priest to go back to work and rape even more children?

Funny the teachings of the RCC and it's leaders on human sexuality. Such contradictions even from their own Papal Pinhead.

The Papal Pinhead says that homosexuality is evil and that it is against God's laws. That by allowing homosexuals to marry, we are destroying the sacrament of marriage. That marriage should only be between a man and a woman. How all the leaders of this church of Pedophile Priests and Pimps mimic his exact words.

YET FROM THIS PAPAL PINHEADS OWN MOUTH HE STATES:

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.

In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.

“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.

“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than' and a ‘worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

This two faced Pope says that homosexuals, abortion, contraceptives, and many other things are evil, but when it comes time to child pornography and child rape, it is not only NOT EVIL, but in full comformity with the church and considered normal by the rest of society.