Pope felt “deep anguish” as Bush went to war despite his urgings

[dArKeR]

While the pope and Bush, who is set to arrive in Rome late Wednesday ahead of the funeral, may have shared common ground on the issues of abortion and euthanasia, they were worlds apart over the use of military force to topple Saddam.

The Italian people were clearly on the side of the pope, as three million of them took to the streets of Rome in 2003 in the largest of worldwide protests against the war.


“There was a clear disagreement,” the former US envoy to the Vatican, Jim Nicholson, recalled Monday. The pope “was a man of peace, and he always hoped for the peace option,” he told the Denver Post.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/April/theworld_April130.xml§ion=theworld

[indepat]

1. One, a man of peace and one, a (perpetual?) war president

[TahitiNut]

2. The most murderous pResident in recent history 'bonds' with Pope.

"Inconceivable!" (© "The Princess Bride")

[beam me up scottie]

7. I don't think that word

means what you think it means. :evilgrin:
(longtime fan)

[elehhhhna]

3. "I'm a war President! Howdy Mister Popy-Pope!

[lonelysoul2020]

4. Since we are at war (and i hate the fact that we are)

I think it was a very good thing that the pope disapproved of the war and didn't give it his blessing. If he did i think we would be taking a lot more casualties over there. As the Muslim insurgents would call it a holy war being fought agents them since the pope gave it his blessing. That would mean there would be a hella lot more insurgents/money to support them to fight our soldiers.

[Skittles]

5. too bad he didn't give birth control his blessing

I wonder if he felt "deep anguish" at 35,000 children starving to death daily

[beam me up scottie]

6. and condoms,

don't forget the condoms, they don't protect from AIDS you know.