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Sooner or later, ALL popes will come from Third World countries as the intelligent, educated West jettisons all outmoded religions and Catholicism becomes the exclusive property of the ignorant, uneducated, and superstitious.
The conversion drives of the Catholics on the continents of Africa & South America were so successful in the past ( ahem ) that the shortage of priests in Europe are being fulfilled with priests from the SAmerica & Africa. They’re typically more conservative. In Austria’s rural Osttirol, seeing any Africans is pretty rare and usually they’re clergy. As the developed nations become more secular, whatever religious roles remain are going to be backfilled from developing nations. Soon there’s going to be another north-south divide: the secular north and religious south. Except in the USA where they’re still lagging behind Europe in the secular stakes.
Joel Pett nailed it. I’d been thinking that it’s a good thing Benedict waited until now to retire. If he’d retired last year, the American bishops could have used an African pope to pry American Catholic voters away from Obama.
At least in the pedophile scandal, Benedict gets a bad rap. When you need to purge the ranks of sinners, an inquisitor is EXACTLY who you want. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/opinion/12douthat.html?_r=0
^ And when you need to purge the ranks of ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night, you need the world’s best exorcist:
They’ll pick another old European man in a frilly dress and keep doing the same things. Funny really since the cathedrals of Europe are mostly filled with picture-taking tourists and old ladies selling lottery tickets.
Joel Pett is a three-time finalist for Pulitzer Prize for cartooning. He won the award in 2000. He joined Lexington Herald-Leader in 1984 and USAToday as contributing cartoonist in 2002.
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Comments (26) (Please sign in to comment)
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
So true…they love Uganda right now.
bobwinners
said, 3 months ago
The Catholic church is in the same place as the Republican party… Stuck in thick and faulty theology.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago
I think this strip is great!
pirate227 said, 3 months ago
Maybe the new pope will not protect pedophiles. One can only hope.
DrCanuck said, 3 months ago
Sooner or later, ALL popes will come from Third World countries as the intelligent, educated West jettisons all outmoded religions and Catholicism becomes the exclusive property of the ignorant, uneducated, and superstitious.
phritzg
said, 3 months ago
You can do whate’er you want if, you’re selected to be Pontiff.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
O’s brother would fit the bill!
omQ R said, 3 months ago
@DrCanuck
I’m from that “third world”. ;-)
omQ R said, 3 months ago
The conversion drives of the Catholics on the continents of Africa & South America were so successful in the past ( ahem ) that the shortage of priests in Europe are being fulfilled with priests from the SAmerica & Africa. They’re typically more conservative. In Austria’s rural Osttirol, seeing any Africans is pretty rare and usually they’re clergy. As the developed nations become more secular, whatever religious roles remain are going to be backfilled from developing nations. Soon there’s going to be another north-south divide: the secular north and religious south. Except in the USA where they’re still lagging behind Europe in the secular stakes.
DrCanuck said, 3 months ago
@omQ R
omQ R said, “I’m from that “third world”. ;-)”
Wanna be pope?
omQ R said, 3 months ago
@DrCanuck
‘Wanna be pope?’
I hate wearing hats.
dipierro
said, 3 months ago
Joel Pett nailed it. I’d been thinking that it’s a good thing Benedict waited until now to retire. If he’d retired last year, the American bishops could have used an African pope to pry American Catholic voters away from Obama.
Vlad Taltos said, 3 months ago
@pirate227
At least in the pedophile scandal, Benedict gets a bad rap. When you need to purge the ranks of sinners, an inquisitor is EXACTLY who you want. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/opinion/12douthat.html?_r=0
DrCanuck said, 3 months ago
@Vlad Taltos
^ And when you need to purge the ranks of ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night, you need the world’s best exorcist:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9873017/Worlds-leading-exorcist-praises-Pope-Benedict.html
Uh, what century is this again?
Chillbilly
said, 3 months ago
They’ll pick another old European man in a frilly dress and keep doing the same things. Funny really since the cathedrals of Europe are mostly filled with picture-taking tourists and old ladies selling lottery tickets.