Many Third World Catholics Disappointed

AP ^ | April 19th | JOHN RICE

[cyborg]

I hope you are right. Islam is a problem in Africa where bands of militants go into churches and kill people where they are praying.

[sinkspur]

Arinze can be elevated under BXVI to a position of more responsibility and then work on his language skills and gain more experience.

Arinze already speaks as many languages as Ratzinger. And, I'm not sure what "experience" Arinze needs that he doesn't have. He's been in the Curia almost as long as Ratzinger, and has been a bishop longer than Ratzinger.

[cyborg]

Well there must be a good reason for his appointment since it was a landslide appointment.

[Free and Armed]

"Except for a few summer school classes, I went to private schools for all 19 years. I think I missed some of the required indoctrination."

Consider yourself lucky.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I think the MSM was successful in making the world believe that we were going to get a new Pope of Olive skin or from South America, at least, that is the impression I got from watching the news in the last 2 weeks on the Pope.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Sounds like Liberal useful idiots.

[don-o]

Thank you.

Still not sure what you want except young, but the no-no is reassuring.

[sinkspur]

Doesn't matter what I want.

We have BXVI.

[Dog Gone]

I think the reporting showed that the MSM probably favored a pope from Africa or Latin America, but I'm not sure that it led me to believe that it was probable. In fact, the stories I read indicated that Ratzinger was the frontrunner, but without a majority yet.

I think the discussion about the nationality or skin color of the pope is interesting, but it's rather sad that it's an issue at all. I would think the character and philosphies would be paramount.

Since I'm not catholic, whether they choose to have a foodfight after this election is only a matter of interest to me, since I have no stake in it. I would prefer that everyone was happy, but fights make for better entertainment, and I don't mean that in a flippant way. Sometimes they are over important matters, and sometimes they're over trivial matters, but they're always news.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Well, folks like you and I are not brainwashed or duped by the MSM, what I was referring to was the SHEEPLE out their who only get their news by the fruity networks, the ABCS, CBS, NBCS, CNN, PSB so on and so on.
Your right, skin color should have nothing to do with it, but, the liberals, even during the last election, during the situation with Terry, and now the new Pope are showing the true colors.
They ( Libs/Dems ) are showing that they are more racist than the Republicans/Conservatives.
The worst racist out there is someone, or a group of people who always proclaim that in their race group, creed, nationality, or sex, has no capacity of racism, they are blind by their own hatred.

[TheForceOfOne]

[etlib]

I would love to see an African as the next pope. Judging from the visiting African priests that have come to my parish, the Africans are very orthodox. A "conservative" pope with black skin would really get under the skin of the "progressives." Africa is also a fertile ground for vocations to the religious life. In the future African priests may come to represent Catholicism as much as Irish priests did in the early 20th century.

[Verginius Rufus]

The former Soviet republics in the Caucasus region and in Central Asia should be Second World. In the post-Communist era, what determines if a country is part of the Second World? Once Second World, always Second World? Or does membership in NATO and the EU allow a country to join the First World? Some of the Eastern European countries are more First World than Turkey is. And why are Israel, South Korea and Taiwan considered Third World?