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i would kinda echo the above: i actually had a moment of vague hope for the church--which i track as a function of my background, not as a function of any actual belief--when stories floating the possibilities of an african pope, not because of any particular assumptions about ideology (and african pope could be as conservative as any other) but because i thought that some of the church's more destructive positions (on birth control for example) would be more likely abandoned if the pope had something approaching an appreciation of its effects in real time.
i did not let myself think that this same logic might lead toward a re-opening of the space for liberation theology--i assume that the reactionary college of cardinals would never even nominate someone remotely sympthetic to follow jp2, who "silenced" liberation theology because he thought is "commie".
nor did i expect any change from the church with reference to self-protection, in its crudest form, llike you saw across the sex abuse scandals.
even with all that said, i am still appalled that that ultra-reactionary shitheel ratzinger was elected.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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