I dont understand why liberals started a love affair with the Pope, and now I don't understand

[jwirr]

21. Not a Catholic here. But I think I can understand some of

the hype. For years - since raygun - the church has been sinfully silent about the economic issues. Prior to that many were very vocal on how poverty effects people.

Then along comes the rw churches and they take over without a shot fired. It appears that the total message of the church is hate, anti-welfare, etc. It appears that way because they effectively used the media to get their new prosperity gospel message out. (Same with the issue of hate.)

And for those of us who did not follow the rw churches we were always asked "Why don't you do something about it?" The answer is simple - we do in our own churches but we have no influence in other denominations. It is not as if we are just another state of the union. We are separate.

In listening to the Pope I recognize that he is not working to change his churches doctrine regarding all the things we would like him to change but he is going back to a message that has been absent since the 80s. And he is mostly addressing this message to his own church members. Put he is also challenging the rw churches on this issue. An issue that no one else has challenged them on. He is the first Pope to take this step since raygun. It is a step in the right direction.