[Dog Gone]

"I would have liked someone different: younger, with new ideas and perhaps with darker skin like us,"

Is that a racist statement, or would it only have been so if a German had been quoted complaining about a hispanic pope and "darker" had been replaced by "lighter"?

[duck duck goose]

Give me a break. Here is proof that some dumb-a$$ journalist was looking for a sound bite/ headline. It hasnt even been 24 hours. There will be opposition, but ultimately there is hope for the Church and our new Pope. At least the future of both is being thought of and spoken about.

[Aussie Dasher]

Benedict will be a very good Pope.

Granted, I would have liked to see George Pell in the job, but that was always a long shot.

If these characters complaining about basic Catholic doctrine don't like it, they have many other choices of church at their disposal.

[Free and Armed]

"Is that a racist statement, or would it only have been so if a German had been quoted complaining about a hispanic pope and "darker" had been replaced by "lighter"?"

Of course it's not racist, dark people are incapable of being racists. And if they are, it's well deserved. Didn't you go to publik schul?

[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.