RE: For anyone who likes Pope Francis
February 7, 2015 at 6:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2015 at 6:35 am by Homeless Nutter.)
Even the nicest Pope is still a leader of a crime syndicate. Not to mention that he's really only a puppet, while a clique of cardinals in Vatican actually "runs" the Church and decides upon policies. John Paul II was paraded all over the world for years, after it became obvious, he was incapable of running anything, due to old age and illness.
Ratzinger used to be one of those cardinals during JP II's papacy (he was for example directing Church's responses to the wave of child-rape accusations, aimed at priests in the 90's and early 00's, sending letters to bishops, advising them to keep the matters from authorities and the public, to protect the organization, before anything else). No wonder he quit early - he knew what was coming and didn't want to spend his retirement as a living relic, shown like a freak, in a fish-tank, for the amusement of poor people.
I'm betting this Pope-retiring-thing will become the norm. At least that way, once a Pope has said and done enough stupid and unpopular things to annoy the general public - they'll get a shiny new one, which will placate them for a bit, while their organization keeps operating in exactly the same way as before. Meet the new boss - same as the old boss.
Ratzinger used to be one of those cardinals during JP II's papacy (he was for example directing Church's responses to the wave of child-rape accusations, aimed at priests in the 90's and early 00's, sending letters to bishops, advising them to keep the matters from authorities and the public, to protect the organization, before anything else). No wonder he quit early - he knew what was coming and didn't want to spend his retirement as a living relic, shown like a freak, in a fish-tank, for the amusement of poor people.
I'm betting this Pope-retiring-thing will become the norm. At least that way, once a Pope has said and done enough stupid and unpopular things to annoy the general public - they'll get a shiny new one, which will placate them for a bit, while their organization keeps operating in exactly the same way as before. Meet the new boss - same as the old boss.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
