Since people are still, very much, discriminated against in the Catholic Church.

Hypocrite.

This is not earth-shattering. This is not insightful.

I am glad that he said it, but everything he is saying is just platitudes. I will be impressed when I see any results.

"Does the Pope wear a funny hat?"


Or my fave (because it's SO TACKY it's transcendent..... so don't have a hissy fit)

"Did Rose Kennedy own a black dress?"

I don't think you can. I think it is possible that bears shit on the top of the heads of atheists. While it is much more likely that bears shit in the woods by several orders of magnitude than that bears shit on the top of heads of atheists, both positions are equally valid.

Meanwhile, gays still go to hell, women aren't in charge of their own bodies, and STDs--well, they must be god's will.

Fuck him.

Too bad he doesn't do anything to stop it within his own church, though.

It shook American conservatives up, so I'll give him props.

Drives home the point that if anyone else says that, it's greeted with a shrug. But Wonderpope says it, ZOMG, he's the most wonderful person ever in the history of humanity! This totally means we should ignore what a raging homophobic misogynist he is!

When will they start ordaining them, I wonder? Will we see a woman pope soon?

You people and your ridiculous demands! You can't expect this pope to change things overnight.

We got a real deep thinker in this one. Obviously, he read the Communist Manifesto in high school, too.

I've had a ton of exposure to the sins of the church in context of St John's School for the Deaf and that rat bastard Timothy Dolan.