Popey Poopy

So the Catholic church needs a new marketing team, and a few NY newspapers need to grow a spine. I say both of these for the same reason. Just last week the Metro and NY Post were uncovering Joe Ratzinger's duplicitous past. While Joe himself decried foul play and took no responsibility for his actions during WWII, his former comrades were sure he was faithfully adherent to the Nazi cause. A newspaper never really makes an assertion about anything in its non-editorial content, but the two above certainly presented plenty of the facts to assume Joe guilty. Now that he is Pope however, these same papers, just one week later, seem pretty sure that he was in fact forced to be a Nazi gunner. Cowards!

And now lets consider the church's decision to elect the Pope Nazi, also known as the "Vatican Enforcer." I wonder where he developed this style? Who were his role models? John Paul was considered a hero upon his death, so much that many people want to elevate him to Sainthood.
Now he had some admirable accomplishments, but lets get real here. He was incredibly conservative, and fought to maintain church orthodoxy. I don't blame a man for having convictions, but in the face of major dwindling of church participation, give it up a little. Its easy to rile the masses and get them to riot against gay marriage, but maintaining that they can't use rubbers and take the pill is a little short sighted (lets not even mention the hypocrisy of the masses, who were quick to adopt the tenet that male on male blow jobs are evil, but conveniently forgot that the Pope considered all blowjobs, gay or straigt, equally evil).

I was routing for the Nigerian and Brazillian guys, certainly the underdogs in the race. Now I'll be damned if you can find more than 5% of European or American catholics who actually follow all of Catholic dogma. Most go to church because they are supposed to, and attending Sunday mass is just enough to get coach fare into heaven. If there is any hope for the church (as far as orthodoxy is concerned), its in South America and maybe Africa. Has anybody ever been to a South American or Latin American country during a religious holiday? If not, then don't bother, because they are virtually shut down. Nowhere have I ever seen catholics so faithful and orthodox than amongst are Spanish speaking brethren. Now Brazil isn't a spanish nation, but its a major player in the South American seen, and I'm sure a Brazillian pope would inspire pride in the entire continent.

Let the people who deserve a pope actually have one. The rest of us can just pretend to care, but not actually do a damn thing the pope wants us to do.

Amen papi!