[Lou Budvis]

Horror of horrors! Cardinal Tagle has been using his communication skills to advocate Catholic teaching on contraception!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

black smoke!!!

[sodpoodle]

Megan Kelly just announced a vote - BLACK smoke.

[Romulus]

if elected would be Asia's first pope.

This would be news to St. Peter.

[Don Corleone]

A 55 year old Pope might be just a bit too young for the old guard. He could be around for 30 years or more. That’s a loooooong time in power in a place like the Vatican. If he turned out to be too radical or too conservative there could be serious damage done to the Church’s image. IMHO they’ll go for a little older candidate.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Referencing SNAP and the National Catholic Reporter (aka “Fishwrap”) in the same article leaves me with a queasy feeling.

[YankeeReb]

NBC show's its ignorance again. There's no "Asia's first pope" anymore than Pope Benedict was Germany's first pope or John Paul was Poland's first pope.

With this level of news reporting, it's no wonder Baraq was elected Africa's first president ...twice.

[Dr. Sivana]

No problem with Tagle, and no problem with the other Asian, Ranjith, either.

[dangus]

>> The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has named him among the three “least worst” papal candidates because of the way he has spoken out on sex abuse by members of the clergy. <<

HABEMUS PAPEM!!!

Seriously, SNAP hates him because he suggested that homosexuality may have something to do with the abuse crisis. Whatever could make him think that? Besides the fact that 80-90% of the abuse cases were actually between priests and post-pubescent boys?