We wonder why nothing changes at the Vatican?

[Archae]

One of the candidates for Pope to replace Rat The 1rst is this bishop from Ghana.
Seems he's a royal horse's ass too.

The African cardinal widely tipped to be the first black pope in modern history faced a firestorm of criticism last night after he laid the blame for clerical sex abuse crises at the feet of gay priests.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, who comes from Ghana, told an American journalist that similar sex scandals would never convulse churches in Africa because the culture was inimical to homosexuality.

‘African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency,’ he told Christiane Amanpour of CCN.

‘Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind, are not countenanced in our society,’ he continued.

‘So that cultural taboo, that tradition has been there,’ said Cardinal Turkson, 64. ‘It has served to keep it out.’

As the head of a major Vatican department – the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace - Cardinal Turkson is ranked as the 5/2 second favourite to take the papal crown when a Conclave of Cardinals meets next month to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his abdication last week on the grounds of ill health

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281411/Cardinal-Peter-Turkson-blames-gay-priests-abuse-scandals-facing-Catholic-church.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[MineralMan]

1. If they don't make some real changes, the RCC will slowly, but surely

disintegrate, as members from industrial nations withdraw their support. It is an old, old institution, and it is doddering around with a walker these days. Time for some real change in the RCC, if they hope to continue to be relevant.

[Archae]

3. Good. They are just a relic from the Dark Ages anyway.

[MineralMan]

4. Yes, the Dark Ages. Another of the RCC's bright ideas.

I believe they're busy coding Dark Ages 2.0 right now.

[pennylane100]

2. What a total jerk.

He is proud of the homophobic culture that exists in many African countries. That will offend the majority of his non African members of the church. The money that flows to the church from the west will soon dry up as he starts his anti gay rants.

[Bake]

5. Calling it "abdication" when it's really just resignation from office bothers me.

It also bothers me that the refer to the Pope's seat as a "throne."

Kings and queens can abdicate their thrones. He's not a king. He's supposed to be a pastor. A servant. Not a king.

Bake