Ok, I'm going to break my long-standing reputation and defend the Pope against the continued knocking of him. I do not condone the actions of the Catholic church and it's long history of problems with the Jewish people, but I can understand how JTF readers who are Catholics can see these threads as derogatory against the entire system of beliefs of Catholicism.
I can understand that people who are brought up in the religion can look at what is being said here and think we are just another group of Catholic haters. Indeed I am somewhat guilty of this but my attacks on the Catholic church were limited solely to issues where the Church exhibited antisemitism.
I am not so much concerned with the popes dealing with his own people... I am more concerned with the Vaticans position vis-a-vis Israel. There remains a lot of issues, as Giulio Meotti is wont to expose, concerning the Catholic church supporting the so-called palestinians. I am very worried about the upcoming visit to Israel by this pontiff and what he will say concerning the so-called 'oppression of the palestinian people'.