In a tit-4-tat the Pope refuses to see Condi...

[Didereaux]

Playing the tit-for-tat game, BBC reports that Pope Benedict refused to see Rice when she requested an audience to discuss the mid-East and other official items.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7002988.stm

Screw up a 'crusade' and you risk your immortal soul!
;)

[Botany]

1. Snort!

"Instead of meeting the Pope, Ms Rice had to make do with a telephone conversation with the
Vatican's number two, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who was visiting the US during August on
other business."

[Kolesar]

2. Cardinal Ratzenberger helped get bush "reelected"* in 2004

He was part of some Catholic political organization.

[Captain Hilts]

6. No, he didn't. Cardinal Rat and the Vatican are vocal opponents of the Iraq War and Cap. Punishment

I'm NO fan of Cardinal Rat, but you can't blame this one on him.

[Kolesar]

7. Ratzenberger sent a memo to the Catholic Bishops to refuse communion to politicians who don’t oppose

... abortion

Ratz is a republican asshole/fucker.

If those right wing Catholics had not done this, Kerry would have been president. There were RW catholics dropping republican religious propaganda in the break rooms where I work. Where do you think those fuckers got their direction???

It recently came out in an Italian magazine that before the 2004 election then Cardinal Ratzenberger now Pope Benedict sent a memo to the Catholic Bishops in the US urging them to refuse communion to politicians who don’t oppose abortion. Kerry was his primary target. Ignoring the fact that the Catholic Church is just as against Capital Punishment as it is against abortion, and he didn’t recommend them to refuse communion to pro-Death Penalty politicians. Also then Pope, John Paul II, said that the Iraq War was an unjust war and therefore mass murder. That makes any politician who supports the Iraq War pro-Mass Murder according to the teachings of the Catholic Church. But Ratzenberger did not urge Catholic Clergy to refuse communion to pro-Mass Murder politicians. By instructing Catholic clergy to refuse communion based on one issue, but ignoring the other issues Ratzenberger was opening the entire Catholic Church to the loss of their tax exempt status. The fact that the Bush Administration’s IRS is going after a church that follows the teachings of Christ with regard to war and even said that people could vote for whomever they wanted, but the IRS doesn’t go after Pro-Bush churches that violate the teachings of Christ in order to push a political agenda shows how hypocritical the Bush Administration is and how capriciously (and in this case unjustly) they are enforcing the law is a violation of the constitution that says they must enforce the law fairly as all are or should be subject to the same laws.

http://eatatjoesplace.blogspot.com/2005/11/president-bushs-war-on-people-of-faith.html

[rurallib]

3. You would think a fellow fascist would show more courtesy

[Felinity]

4. But he talked to Bush?

Well, maybe that helped him make up his mind.

[MissMarple]

5. We can't protect Iraqi Christians....how telling is that?

"The Bush administration has told the Vatican that as coalition forces have not succeeded in securing the whole territory of Iraq, they are unable to protect non-Muslims."