Catholics don't hold a monopoly on hypocrisy. They do as much harm as any other religious fundamentalist.

As for the Pope, to me it's always sad to see an old man who tries so hard but is so weak... Popes in the past have been liars, adulterers, war-mongers, anti-semites, but I think JPII was going in the right direction (as far as the most conservative institution in the world can go in the right direction ) and I hope that the next pope will be just as, if not more, open-minded than the last one.