Probably not a good idea for the Pope to go to Africa and talk about the ineffectiveness of condoms.
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How many people around the world are still catholic? (I shouldn’t ask on St. Patty’s day, of course…!)
It’s one of the places where Catholicism is most popular.
Africans constitute the Pope’s strongest allies against birth control and female priests – the African and Latin American churches being the most conservative in the world.
And what I meant was, it surprises me that there are still so many Catholics when the Pope does things like this. Yes, respect, fidelity, abstinence – all well and good. But it’s like trying to sell IRV voting to Iraq. They don’t even have simple voting down yet.
I know this will be a politically incorrect comment, but St. Patrick’s history is mostly hype and covers for a very unsavory story–the forced destruction of women’s rights in the Celtic lands. Ancient Celtic tradition gave inheritance rights to women and this wasn’t acceptable to the Christian “invaders.” The story of St. Patrick is truly a story of forced cultural change, and women lost.
Cross the globe to Africa, where the Church tells the wives of HIV infected men that they are duty-bound to submit and cannot use condoms. This is truly a crime, and it’s impossible to understand why the hierarchy insists on it. “By their fruits you know them”
So, Rachel Maddow (msnbc) just made the teaser that Marcos Moulitsas is up next.
Mr. Ratzinger’s successor will be a black man (no, not a woman) from Africa. That will go down tremendously, stupendously in Africa. The irony will be excruciating. Here in Europe many have come to the conclusion that the man is bit twisted. How about there?
I suspect that Ratzinger’s successor will be an Italian. His successor will then be an African, but I think the Italian cardinals are getting antsy about how long it’s been since one of “their own” has had the throne.
Most of the life-long Catholics I know who aren’t rabid conservatives (including myself) think that Ratzinger is quite a bit twisted. Funny enough, he hasn’t actually put forth much that’s all that different from what John Paul II supported. It’s just that JPII knew enough to put the emphasis on the love and kindness half in public, and keep the hurtful and hateful stuff downplayed. Benedict has no sense of political tact at all. Nor does he understand that the head of a Christian religion walking around in fancy designer shoes and wearing designer sunglasses is a terrible optic – at least JPII had the common sense to pretend like he was living simply when he went out in public.
It also doesn’t help that every day Benedict looks more and more like Emperor Palpatine. Most of the folks I know who aren’t afraid of lightning bolts hurled from the sky tend to call him “Emperor Pope-atine” when they’re feeling charitable, and other things when they’re not…
OT: Boo, either your power is unbounded or your wish has been answered. Tauscher appears to be heading for the State Dept.
Quentin, Ratz appears twisted here too.