[plain talk]

He also said ".

"It is going to be a life-changing experience and I think that is what it has been for Benedict and those who have gone before us. The challenge will also be with the individual to want to make his mark, not trying to fit into anybody's shoes but finding his own shoes to wear."

sounds very presumptous. In fact I can't ever recall a Cardinal speaking so publicly about the possibility of them becoming Pope ... particularly in this manner.

[Ingtar]

Do they really want to choose a man named Peter from Romana? It would be like begging Malachy to be correct.

[G Larry]

Self promotion? Self nomination?

Not a good sign.

Not a welcome characteristic.

[nickcarraway]

If the next pope is against gay marriage, or disagrees with the U.N. in any way, he will be hounded until he resigns. Because after all, now we know, popes can resign for anything.

[SMCC1]

I don’t know but it’s important to keep in mind he’s African so even if he’s speaking in english, it may not exactly ‘translate.’ Still may be presumptuous though.

[O6ret]

Such a humble man.....

[Rockingham]

There is a saying that he who goes into a conclave a Pope comes out a Cardinal.

[piytar]

Last pope = antipope?

[MuttTheHoople]

Da Popizzle In Da Hizzle!!!

[battousai]

I liked this part, so OK with me if the Holy Spirit choses this man as our next Pope...

Cardinal Turkson has caused controversy in the past both by screening a video claiming that Europe faced being overrun by Muslims and by insisting that condoms were not the solution to preventing HIV.

It never ceases to amaze me how the hand wringing left insist that the Church should endorse condoms to stop AIDS...but don't seem to get the logical disconnect that the people contracting AIDS are already living lives discordant with Christian and Catholic teaching...i.e. having promiscuous sexual relations with multiple partners...so why would they pay heed to what the Church had to say about condoms?...no they don't wear condoms..because well they just don't like it, nothing to do with the Church teaching on the subject.

[diverteach]

In October 2011 Cardinal Turkson called for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises. The document, Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority was very specific, calling for taxation measures on financial transactions. It notes that “The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence,” it said. The document condemned what it called “the idolatry of the market” as well as a “neo-liberal thinking” that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic problems. “In fact, the crisis has revealed behaviours like selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods on a great scale,” it said, adding that world economics needed an “ethic of solidarity” among rich and poor nations.

This dies not bode well. The rest of his biography has other telling clues as well.

[silverleaf]

Gee, ya think this guy sounds...entitled or something

Maybe Papal humility has at times, been an illusion maintained only in public

However

it is very very unusual and off putting for a prognosticated Papal successor to be so arrogant about “his” presumptive future role

I hope they pick someone else because of this man’s lack of humility, and his politicking on his personal agenda

[Preston Manning]

If this doesn’t bump Cardinal Ouellet up to clear front-runner status, I don’t know what will.

As of this morning, Turkson’s odds on PaddyPower have dropped from 3:! to 4:1 (third place) behind Ouellet at 7:2 and Scola at 4:1.

The more I read about Cardinal Ouellet, the more I’m convinced he’s everything the catholic church needs in a pope.

And I’m not catholic.

[redgolum]

This would dove tail with another “prophecy” about a converted Turk becoming Pope.

Then who is the great Monarch?

[Lazamataz]

Peter from Rome.

Well I'll be damned.

[Lazamataz]

Peter from Rome.

Well I'll be damned.