In 21st century enlightened society, the anti-Catholic bias in your comments is several steps down the scale of acceptability and respectability. L'Osservatore Romano made a comment on the same point in May, 2007, when stating: "It is an act of terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone [i.e., the Pope] who always speaks in the name of love."

Catholics on every continent have died for their Christian beliefs in the course of history. To encompass the entire history of how the Church has aided humanity is beyond the scope of this humble rebuttal and admonishment. Let me try to educate you by looking at recent history. During the Colonial period, the Church acted as a check on conquistadores who pursued feudal interests contrary to those of the Spanish Crown. From the Mexican government's anticlerical war on the church in the 1920s (where many priests who fought on the side of peasants also became martyrs for their faith) to the genocidal tribal conflicts in Burundi and Rwanda in the 1990s, the accomplishments of figures such as Maximilian Kolbe, Edith Stein, and Oscar Romero are well-known, others such as the heroic Jesuit Miguel Pro are more obscure. Let's not forget the many martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, the victims of postwar communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Cuba. Countless others, like China's Cardinal Ignatius Kung, suffered greatly for their faith for years. Thank God for the inspirational lives of Hugh O'Flaherty, Mother Teresa, Sister Frances Xavier Cabrini, Alicja Kotowska and the 108 Polish martyrs of WWII, and the countless Catholics who suffered horrors at the hands of brutal regimes of both right and left. Perhaps the example of their lives will edify the skeptical nonbelievers--or provide a useful historical corrective for all critics of Catholicism in our modern age, unless Christ's Sermon on the Mount applies, where He warns us “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”