Meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:11am

In an interview last week with CNN, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, considered by many to be the favorite to succeed Pope Benedict XVI (which would make him the first black Pope), created an uproar with his response to Christiane Amanpour's question about the possibility of the Catholic Church's sex scandal spreading to Africa. For Turkson, the issue isn't Church-wide cover ups of the scandal or any other systematic problem; instead, Turkson thinks the abuse occurred because there were too many gay priests in Europe and North America.

"African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency," he said. "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."

I wasn't voting for him anyway

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:23am

Yeah, Africa is famous for its low rape statistics.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:35am

The Catholic Church and the Republican Party are destroying themselves internally. It's absolutely amazing to watch.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:38am

Yeaaahhhhhhhhhh. The next pope is going to be black.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:41am

They're trying to be hip with the kids.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:48am

I just reread his breathtakingly stupid comments. Let me get this straight: He thinks that molestation of a child by a priest is "an affair"?

Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:52am

Namo: The blacks get everything these days, haven't you heard? Obama would be nothing if he were all-white (instead of a "halfrican American") and blacks get all the best jobs now. At least that's why my bigoted Republican neighbors tell me.

Updated On: 2/20/13 at 10:52 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:10am

Barack HUSSEIN #Nobama, as Rob Delaney calls him.