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VicP 03/20/2013 10:24 AM Report
With 46.37 million Americans on food stamps, I do not think they need to play this "Poor South Americans" smoke and mirrors game about "the poor".
With the German pope elected in 2005, the Eurozone found itself in a major financial crisis that Merkel was key in bailing them out of.
John Paul II came in 1978 during the impending collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Block with a western assurance that they would collapse into the Euro economic system.
Church history is always aligned with human economics.
Dolan has only been Cardinal for a year so he offers more of an outsider's perspective which is interesting. Very interesting fellow.
nerrawg 03/19/2013 04:47 PM Report
Wow, REMant that is the first comment of yours in years that makes some sense and I have to admit I find myself in agreement with you on this issue of the Church (particularly the Catholic one) and modernity.
Cheers to Charlie for doing this interview, the initiation of the new Pope was widely covered but a more in depth coverage of the modern church has been sorely lacking in the official press.
REMant 03/18/2013 01:01 PM Report
If Dolan was born c 1950 as he said, Charlie Rose is, in fact, a good seven-eight years OLDER. He just acts younger. Or maybe it's the makeup. Solicitude may be all the poor ever get out of the Church. Worse, it may be all they want, and this pope, I fear, may well find that his predecessors - popemobiles, red capes, shoes and all - did it better. The Catholic Church is above all a relic of the Middle Ages, and I think were it not for their emphasis on the Virgin, they might well find themselves as much of a target of democracy as other such, or at least more of one. And saying Church doctrine never changes is a lot like saying we always understand and follow the Constitution.