tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post2166050857915674337..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Ash WednesdayTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-43565183984372988552013-02-16T08:09:20.992-05:002013-02-16T08:09:20.992-05:00In honor of the Russian meteorite, a song that cou...In honor of the Russian meteorite, a song that could be Mariesa's anthem:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTwJhO3Bt8Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-75042691025029500602013-02-15T19:46:21.688-05:002013-02-15T19:46:21.688-05:00With Turkson it's a matter of the College deci...With Turkson it's a matter of the College deciding whether his skin color will appease more people than his views will turn off. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-24635560154266229852013-02-14T21:16:48.108-05:002013-02-14T21:16:48.108-05:00A good number of them think that since they're...A good number of them think that since they're Catholic, they are quite Catholicky enough and so the Pope can be like them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-59292327196632361602013-02-14T19:19:10.885-05:002013-02-14T19:19:10.885-05:00My understanding is that several Popes of the past...My understanding is that several Popes of the past were known to have been born in Africa. However, their skin color is unknown. All sat in the Papal chair before the year 500 rolled around.<br /><br />Latin America didn't have that opportunity, obviously.<br /><br />I, too, am mystified as to the importance of the birthplace of any Pope. SJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043843405366080460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-90600890691766614222013-02-14T19:08:42.688-05:002013-02-14T19:08:42.688-05:00In a British mag:
Despite his surprising candour o...In a British mag:<br /><i>Despite his surprising candour on the subject of succeeding Pope Benedict XVI, Turkson was "quick" to take a conservative line on controversial issues such as gay marriage and other "alternative lifestyles", the Telegraph says. He said the Catholic Church needed to find ways to "evangelise" or convert those who had embraced "alternative lifestyles, trends or gender issues".</i><br />http://www.theweek.co.uk/religion/51496/peter-turkson-not-shy-about-his-wish-become-first-black-pope<br /><br />Notice the pile of preconceptions in that one sentence; esp. the use of "despite." TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-71894625968270910122013-02-14T18:20:55.516-05:002013-02-14T18:20:55.516-05:00The ironic thing is that those clamoring now for P...The ironic thing is that those clamoring now for Pope from Africa or Latin America will not be pleased if they get their wish. They will find out that in many ways these bishops - as a simplified whole - are more brazen - perhaps overly so, in some cases, blunt, and evangelical, as "Vaticanologist" John Allen observed. Simply, they have not culturally experienced the cultural wane of Christianity and its mellowing out in the West following the "Enlightenment." Chancellorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350899686643151224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-28690939419209275712013-02-14T18:03:33.167-05:002013-02-14T18:03:33.167-05:00Latin America is not as monolithically Catholic as...Latin America is not as monolithically Catholic as it used to be. Evangelical Protestantism has made inroads into the flock in many places, and no few of those seem to have wound up in <i>los EEUU</i>. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-10928630926228487762013-02-14T14:12:00.843-05:002013-02-14T14:12:00.843-05:00It is difficult for those focused on accidents rat...It is difficult for those focused on accidents rather than substances to understand that such things might be of almost no importance, one way or the other. There are other criteria beside posing. TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-11144369049047433482013-02-14T13:08:29.866-05:002013-02-14T13:08:29.866-05:00I keep hearing the media push for an African or La...I keep hearing the media push for an African or Latin American pope, but their reasoning is simply so that there is an African or Latin American Pope. True, Latin America is almost completely Catholic, and Protestantism is not so far ahead in Anglophone Africa as it once was. I don't get why the Western World is in such a rush to break demographic precedents just for the sake of it. It will all happen in time; sometimes the best person for the job doesn't stand out in the demographic crowd. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-5104109874729996202013-02-14T11:10:30.999-05:002013-02-14T11:10:30.999-05:00There seem to be way too many people who don't...There seem to be way too many people who don't want a Pope who's so . . . Catholicky.Cambiashttp://www.jamescambias.comnoreply@blogger.com