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Post by rcksthill on Feb 14, 2013 2:45:14 GMT -5
Africans will not make hay or better themselves if this should come to pass. First we had Martin Luther King, and there was not a ripple. Then came Archbishop Desmond Tutu, leading the way for Nelson Mandela, and there was more hope in the air, but nothing came of it. Then the biggest break through of them all, Barack Obama President of the mighty red neck United States of America, and not even an advancement ripple, as a matter of fact, it seems that blacks took a step backwards. So what makes you all think there is going to be a difference if there is a black pope? www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/next-pope-contenders-vatican-job-- "It is not possible for me to plead allegiance to those who enslaved us." Charles Roach (2012) |
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chopin
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Post by chopin on Feb 14, 2013 11:40:37 GMT -5
INCH:
there is zero chance of a non-white pope (far less a black).
There are some 66+ white cardinals who will select the next pope. Think about that for a moment.
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Post by jimmyinct on Feb 16, 2013 1:22:58 GMT -5
What the Catholic Church and the world needs is a leader who speaks up unequivocally and vociferously against the massive structural violence and violations that are indisputably the result of Western government foreign policies. Such a leader needs to condemn the American and European perpetrator presidents and prime ministers of these abominations, not to indulge them with reverential meetings to discuss ethical issues.
The politically conservative German pontiff, known for this theological dogmatism, failed conspicuously to denounce capitalism. As with most of the European and North American hierarchy, the outgoing pontiff seems to be oblivious to the fact that this elite-driven economic system dominated by Washington, London, Paris and Berlin is literally crucifying the planet and its people with poverty, disease, hunger and ecological destruction.
The Euro-centric Catholic Church with its long succession of white popes reflects a world that has become warped and corrupted by elite domination, manifested in capitalism and warmongering imperialism that subjugate the world’s majority in conditions of poverty and conflict. Those chains need to be broken. If the Catholic Church is truly guided by God’s good news, then it must break from the pernicious paradigm of elite domination and open up to the reality and needs of the common human condition.
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Post by harryincali on Feb 18, 2013 19:50:35 GMT -5
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Post by jimmyinct on Feb 18, 2013 23:10:33 GMT -5
The guy is anti-fag.
Is he anti-pederast/pedophile?
Views on that unknown, eh?
In Italy and elsewhere in Europe, they can barely tolerate first rate black soccer players.
In Africa, authority (big man/paramount chief/Igwe) is compatible with polyamory(multiple girlfriends, remember Clinton's African trip during the Monica scandal) and suspicious of celibacy.
Ethnicity of the electors may be a factor in the election of the next Pope.
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