Oh, it seems like only a few weeks ago that the Pope told the Christian-coated right-wingers in this country that Jesus only started one Church and that their churches were only ecclesial communities without the means of salvation of the Catholic Chruch.
Now, like Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI says people who think evolution is the opposite of Creationism are absurd.
The Pope says that the study of science and evolution helps us to understand the rules God created for life. The Pope also says that we must protect the Earth. Get this: The Pope actually said that we should listen to the "voice of the Earth" for our own benefit. I wonder what Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh are going to say about that?!!!! The Pope sounds like a tree-hugging liberal!
Ten bucks that Fox News does not cover this story at all.
I never cease to be amazed by the fact that so many Catholics have forgotten how much we were hated and disciminated against by the right-wing Protestants. I also never cease to be amazed how quickly the right-wingers quote the Pope on abortion but conveniently ignore what the Pope and Pope John Paul II say/said about the death penalty, the Iraq War, poverty, wealth and corporations, evolution, etc., etc., etc.
It is all here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...