Debate: Is Catholic indifference the greatest threat to the Pope’s visit?

The media backlash has spread to the workplace, I am tired of my “informed” collegues forcing the opinion down the throats of anyone who will listen. The same collegues who have never had an opinion the Catholic religion before are now experts on the handling of the abuse cases and the Vatican in general. Now that Stephen Fry has reared his head again he has to be paraphrased on every discussion. Do people of other faiths or athiests not realise that the funding from the tax payer for this visit is not just from the non-catholic part of the country. Catholics work and pay tax so Catholics are funding this visit. I would also like to know why the Vatican is fair game for anyone who wants to have a pop when other religions are taboo.

I think you will find the church of Rome and the pope have very little '' moral authority '' , hence the reason no one is acruually interested. When you consider the church has come out and said that purgatary was one big lie that we used to extort millions of paounds from the poor no wonder people who can NOW read the bible from themselves are no longer interested…Just look at Latin Amercia the biggest evacuation fom the the church of Rome…People can read now , people can see the lying tradition of man now.