The best choice for pope? A nun
More than any other group in the church, the sisters have been at the heart of its work on behalf of compassion and justice. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times made this point as powerfully as anyone in a 2010 column. “In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches,” he wrote. “One is the rigid all-male Vatican hierarchy that seems out of touch. . . . Yet there’s another Catholic Church as well, one I admire intensely. This is the grass-roots Catholic Church that does far more good in the world than it ever gets credit for. This is the church that supports extraordinary aid organizations like Catholic Relief Services and Caritas, saving lives every day, and that operates superb schools that provide needy children an escalator out of poverty.” …
There are certainly bishops and cardinals who have done this sort of godly work and many more who have supported it. But those who have devoted their lives to climbing the church’s career ladder tend not to be like that nun in the jeep in Swaziland. What a message the cardinals would send about the church’s priorities if they made such a woman pope.
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Apparently not. Technology!
An Amish dude checking in on his laptop on the cart buggy ride home to be first on threads just doesn’t seem linear.
Genuine on February 16, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Oh, and…. “Second page Bishop!”
Look at that. I could be pope.
Genuine on February 16, 2013 at 12:14 PM
I’m Baptist, not Catholic, so my opinion probably counts for squat with regard to anything involving the Catholic Church (big C), but…egalitarianism in the church (small-C as in the entire body of believers) is not the best idea, in my opinion.
Othniel on February 16, 2013 at 12:16 PM
When will Obama chime in tha “women s/b pope next”…heck, when will he have Sandra Fluke represent him on this?
Schadenfreude on February 16, 2013 at 12:22 PM
This would be an excellent start but it would be even better if the person involved had been born male, medically and surgically modified to resemble a female and then- exercising the female prerogative to change “her” mind- was processed back into a quasi male-like state, all the while self identifying as a Labrador Retriever trapped in a human body or maybe a stainless steel soup spoon. If that were to occur the Church would finally be “with it”. Cool daddy-o.
Mason on February 16, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Schadenfreude on February 16, 2013 at 12:28 PM
You would have thought the author would at least have selected a specific woman as his proxy, rather than “a nun”.
It’s sort of like those generic Time Magazine “Man of the Year” awards which feature a mirror on the front cover….
Which nun, Mr. Dionne? Name names, please.
unclesmrgol on February 16, 2013 at 1:27 PM
I’m sure that Sister Bertrille is at the top of Dionne’s list.
Pork-Chop on February 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM
If EJ is for it, we know it is a bad idea.
ProfShadow on February 16, 2013 at 1:45 PM
It was. The WELS church I grew up in was the same my parents married in. My mother was a lifelong Catholic; the pastor who married them was a very sweet man and didn’t care about it.
The pastor who confirmed me and the one who succeeded him? They despised the Catholic church. In fact, when I was finally getting back into going to church in general and made the decision to convert, the pastor frantically tried to get us to marry in the WELS church and then told me I’d go to hell if I converted (in so many words). It was the last time I spoke with him and I haven’t been back.
Thank you. I tend to agree with the part about missionary efforts. We will need a pope to lead a church that is willing and able to take on not only the secularism invading Europe, but the radical Islamism as well. Both are sides of the same dangerous, deadly coin.
englishqueen01 on February 16, 2013 at 5:04 PM
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