Oh good, censor anyone who disagrees with the worship of the pope--especially if it is someone who knows their way around Catholicism. It's the Mudcat way.

Look, the death of the pope has more to do with politics than anything else. If this were an obituary announcing the death of George W. Bush, I don't think you'd see the piety being expressed in this thread, do you? It's not damn different with the pope.

Like it or not, this pope and his College of Cardinals, are every bit as conservative as the Bush White House. If you don't expect a few dissenting views to be expressed over his death, you have your head buried in the sand.