With the pope involved in US Cuban normallazation it is going to be very

[still_one]

Interesting how the republicans are going to not insult US Catholics

The timing could not not have been better, though it should have happened years ago

[mmonk]

1. I was unaware they worried over insulting people.

[spanone]

2. yep.

[JaneyVee]

3. /thread.

[el_bryanto]

4. Well they are politicians

And also there are a number of prominent conservative catholics who are spokes people for them.

That said, I suspect that most will take the Rubio line of chastising the Pope - and people who aren't Catholic who want to attack the Pope, will simply quote "the Catholic Bill O'Rielly" or "the Catholic Rick Santorum" (less clumsily than that, I hope).

Bryant

[still_one]

5. This pope has strong popularity around the world, and also here in the US. If they

Become too insulting, which I have no doubt some of the more fundamentalist republicans will, that could cause a backlash among republicans who are Catholic. I remember when JFK ran for president there was a fair amount if that

[jwirr]

6. Marco Rubio has already put in his anti-Catholic bit.

[still_one]

9. Except he has converted back and forth between various religious denominations through the years

Almost whatever suits his fancy

Do not believe he is representative of most Catholics, but how do I know, I'm Jewish

[el_bryanto]

7. The way around that though is to simply suggest that he's well meaning but out of touch. nt

[CurtEastPoint]

8. that made me laugh. Exactly!