Apparently Ghanian Cadinal Turkson "dismayed" conservatives by calling for an international political set up to look at the evils of capitalism. Conserving what ? one wonders. Global inequality? Despite Catholic Neo Conservative streams the position of the church is that the market system is by no means the best, just the best we have.
Good luck, Pope Peter on that score.
Definition of the word 'conservative' is indeed interesting. How far back does Radical Traditionalism take us? To the man that took swearing, brutal, brawling Gallilean fisherman as his disciples and prostitues as His friends, ending his days Crucified by an authority that called a man in Rome God?
The UK right wing papers express hope the new Pope, whoever he is, continue the 'Work' of the first German Pope in history.
Forgive me for recourse to popular history at this late hour but they are missing the point.
The Greek caretaker of my daughter's previous school waxed lyrical about our own staunch Kieth Patrick O'Brien.
Cardinal Keith Patrick being a learned man driving home one evening after a function they conversed in Greek. Eddie said that his emminence was an excellent man, who would make a great Pope, in fact that at the previous conclave the fact that Scotland was a country withno ecclesiastical baggage had not been overlooked.
If we want another caretaker Pope then why not?
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