Reply #47: This is my point. Thank you. [View All]

[Clark2008]

The Pope is the leader of Catholic dogma and that dogma is one against birth control and abortion.
In the perfect world that the Pope would ascribe to, no one would need such things because they would be chaste until married and wealthy enough to afford all the children they wanted and not have it over-populate the world.
No one would be homosexual (or, at least, not marry as homosexuals. The Pope is not against "homosexuals," he's against homosexual marriage and/or the practice of same-sex acts, which is only part of a homosexual's life).
And no one would murder or start wars or do anything that was evil.
Is this realistic? No, of course not.
Is it dogma? Yes.
Now, of issues that isn't dogma, his ignoring the pedophilia problem in the Church, yes, he definitely should have done more to rid the Church of these priests. I think that was his only real failing as the leader of the Church.
He, however, did more for the fall of communism than Ronald Reagan (who really was only in the right place at the right time) and his heart does seem to be in the right place.
And, let's be honest - Pope John Paul II is one of the few leaders who have publically stood up to George W. Bush and other world leaders who needed chastising.
Is he perfect? No, but even he would tell you that as a man, no man is excepting Jesus.