Will they ever learn ?

I just don't get it.
I try do understand, but I do not get it, however hard I try.
As long as there have been Popes, the direct representatives of God on earth, or so they claim, they have been praying for "Peace on Earth". The current Pope is, so they say, a "praying Pope".
And yesterday he prayed for Peace. 

"Peace on Earth."

To make it a bit easier for God, he even told him where he wants Peace. The Pope would like peace in the Middle East, specifically in Iraq and Syria. He wants peace in the Ukraine, in Africa, specifically in Nigeria and the South Sudan.
Well this should give God enough to go on. None of this general, non specific praying for Peace. 
Not Franciskus. He will tell God specifically where to look and where to intervene and shake the beggars up and make them give peace. Once and for all...

Of course Frances is not the first Pope who asked for it. Every Pope before him, I am certain, has done the same: Prayed for Peace. In every Cathedral, every Church from the high and mighty, to the lowly country chapel, they pray for peace.
Now, if you and I pray for peace, I can understand that God pays no attention to us lowly creatures.
But,in heaven's name, the Popes !
Think about it: Jesus said to Peter, his number 1 disciple: 
"On this rock I will build my church.".. or words to this effect. And after Peter came a string of successors, right up to Benedict XVI and Franciskus. Now, for the first time, as far as I know, we have two Popes praying for peace at the same time.
But hey, what's happening ?  Is there peace ? No, of course not!

Between 1939 and 1958 there was Pope Pius XII. 
I am sure he prayed and prayed and prayed some more. What did we get ?
56 Million dead during World War 2 alone, and many more millions injured.
That's  what the world got.
And still the world believes in the power of prayer.  
What does it take to wake up the Believers ? What does it take to convince them that God either is stone deaf and does not hear the prayers, or worse still, he hears them, but does not care, or he hears them but has other plans and therefore, for all these reasons, the prayers uttered by man, Popes or Non-Popes are totally useless.
Now there is, of course, always the possibility, that there is no such entity as a God and therefore our prayers dissipate in space and still are of no use whatever.

It seems to me that Franciskus, as all his predecessors, should have come to the conclusion that they were, and still are, talking to thin air.

Amen
says Bertstravels.