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Is the BBC upset that the new pope is not progressive?
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Watching the build up to the voting on the papal elections, the BBC was asking every other guest speaker whether the new pope should be progressive?
Translated : will they support gay marriage, be allowed to wear condoms and allow women bishops?
The newly elected pope is very much entrenched in the old teachings but is very much focused on helping the poor and oppressed.
Is the BBC with its hidden agenda, likely to be upset by the result?
Translated : will they support gay marriage, be allowed to wear condoms and allow women bishops?
The newly elected pope is very much entrenched in the old teachings but is very much focused on helping the poor and oppressed.
Is the BBC with its hidden agenda, likely to be upset by the result?
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"how would a radical reformer ever get to be a cardinal in the first place"?
It's a bit like expecting to see a black guy on the committe to elect the new head of the KKK
Your translation seems to underline your own prejudice about the BBC more than the BBC's ignorance of the politics of the papacy.
I also watched much of the coverage, unlike you I clearly remember a couple of discussions of what was meant by progressive and how that was a very relative term in papal politics.
No one with any awareness at all was expecting a pope who supports gay marriage and women bishops, simply because none of the contenders for the job held those views.
Your comment doesn't lead me to question the BBC's "hidden agenda" :rolleyes:, rather it leads me to question yours.
A somewhat symbiotic relationships because those teachings, particularly about contraception ensure that there will always be sufficient numbers of poor and oppressed to be grateful for the church's assistance with things like famine and AIDS sufferers etc :rolleyes:
Will the Pope be allowed to wear condoms? I'm sure he can if he likes, it all depends on what he does after he's put it on.
Upset? Yes
Surprized? Not at all
It's like Gem the Husky said in #2
The human mind is too small to comprehend the absolutely humungous sh*t I do not give. In the modern world he is an irrelevance.
I don't count the biggest spreader of Aids in the world an irrelevance.
What is this 'hidden agenda' and how does the result upset them because of it?
I think it's their new Saturday prime time talent contest...for which only Sky shareholders and people with tinfoil hats are being invited to audition for
No hidden agenda, Aunty is openly young, gay and ethnic with a liberal-left Guardian reading cultural bias
Ah you mean human, surely that means the people opposing them are close minded, old, homophobic and white with a rabid-right Daily Mail reading anti-cultural bias.
Which one?
No change there; the Catholic church has preyed upon the emotionally weak and vulnerable since its inception in the 4th century.
It would be a start but if the Catholic stance on contraception remains the same it won't stop the death toll in South Africa.
Maybe a few more Christians would help.
The BBC should be ashamed of their translator who was so incompetent he could not translate the words of the Lord's Prayer.
Then you would be wrong South Africa is highly populated by Catholic missionaries.