Reply #60: I personally am not trying to intentionall offend... [View All]

I just think a lot of you see anti-Catholic bigotry where none is intended. Any comment in oposition to the Church gets flamed as anti-Catholic when most Catholics would agree that the Church has serious problems.

BTW, I find it interesting how you deflected blame off the Pope for the bad things he has done. "His other draconian positions are a product of his position". Spare me. If he had wanted to he could have changed Church doctrine on things like birth control and the place of women in the Church. He chose not to. Other Popes in the past have shown a willingness to try to bring the Church into the current century but this Pope did not. He had enormous power and popularity and he did not use it to help my gender one little bit. If he had really been devoted to ending suffering and privation in the porrer countries of the world he couldn't have picked a better starting point than advocating birth control and increased status for women, but he did not.