You Grow Weaker Now

From the Catholic News Service:

Cardinal Sodano told Italian state television that the Vatican would be following the summit’s progress with “great attention.”

“The Holy See tries to be ’super partes’ (above all parties); it has a universal mission to unite all of humanity,” the cardinal said in the July 24 interview with RAI television.

His remarks echoed Pope Benedict’s July 21 comments that the Vatican tends to leave diplomatic bargaining to other nations “because we do not get involved in politics even if we do everything for peace.”

However, the Vatican supports everything that can facilitate and lead to peace, the pope had said.

The Vatican would like to see results, but again, instead of the Church using its authority and power, it stands limply aside while the Holy Land is engaged in war. There’s a difference between “not being politcally involved” and “neutral” and just being plain afraid, chicken shit of offending some group in the international community … all in an effort to bring about world-wide peace. What these Christians fail to realize is that the Bible that they held so dear never promised peace for Israel, but quite the opposite …. and I would be a bit leary of a pope who could bring about absolute peace to begin with.

So while the land of Abraham and Christ are under attack again, and the world is once again siding against the Jews, the Vatican can continue being aloof and alone “super partes” and then wander why its attendance is down and the faithful are viewed as the weak.