I'll be happy once the media blitz has abated. To me, this is a matter of plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, and changes nothing for me or how I view this scourge -- err, church.
I feel sorriest for the millions of Africans who will still have to cope with the RCC's influence over their laws and politics, resulting in more HIV cases, more anti-LGBTQ laws, and more strife between Christianity and Islam.
Choosing a fairly centrist American cardinal as the new pope strikes me as the RCC trying to send a message without making any notable change ... a distinction without a difference, as it were.
I feel sorriest for the millions of Africans who will still have to cope with the RCC's influence over their laws and politics, resulting in more HIV cases, more anti-LGBTQ laws, and more strife between Christianity and Islam.
Choosing a fairly centrist American cardinal as the new pope strikes me as the RCC trying to send a message without making any notable change ... a distinction without a difference, as it were.
