A Call For Papal Intervention

Liberal Wash. (Com)Post commentator Mary McGrory thinks JPII could be key in averting a war with Iraq.

His holiness cannot be attacked like other war critics, such as France and Germany. Even Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the designated hit man for "appeasers," dares not inveigh against the supreme pontiff of a church with a congregation of a billion. Ari Fleischer, spokesman for a White House that is now wooing nations such as Angola, said stiffly, "It is the papacy's right to engage in dialogue."