These words from the Pope's Easter message say it all, I think ...

"Dear brothers and sisters, through the wounds of the Risen Christ, we can see the evils which afflict humanity with the eyes of hope. In fact, by his rising, the Lord has not taken away suffering and evil from the world but has vanquished them at their roots by the superabundance of his grace. He has countered the arrogance of evil with the supremacy of his love. He has left us the love that does not fear death, as the way to peace and joy. ‘Even as I have loved you, he said to his disciples before his death, so you must also love one another' (cf. John 13:34)."

Surely, the Pope and the sacred Scriptures say it a whole lot better than the sacrilegious poster below sarcastically suggests ...



The Pope did address the war in Iraq to an extent when he stated that "nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees." Although this one sentence does not argue with the "right-ness" or "wrong-ness" of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it surely argues against any further escalation or expansion (into Iran, for example) of the ongoing carnage there.

At least that's how Mediawingnuts reads it ...