“Besides, the African leadership is some of the most conservative in the church. Their seminaries are filled, while ours are empty.”
Ours aren’t empty. They are doing better a lot better of late, in fact and many of them are Latin Mass conservative young men. And there are plenty of conservative Catholics throughout the Western countries. Plenty. You sell your own kind short, unless of course, you aren’t of western kind.
I thank God for Pope Benedict.
And pray that he will get healing rest soon and spend many many years as he wishes in prayer and contemplation.
My own kind?
Personally, I’m only hoping for a pope who will be true to church doctrine, and the Holy Spirit can sort that out.
Meanwhile, you can pray for your western pope, but I doubt that skin color is high on God’s list of priorities.
By the way, my “kind” is white. Cajun white.
Err.. the only "kind" that GSD is, or I or you or NYer are is Christian. I see Turkson as conservative Christian just as Dolan is or the Canadian Cardinal.
Whoever is chosen by the Holy Spirit will be conservative Christian, whatever his "kind" of skin color