Was just about to go to bed but had a quick news read first and the Pope is in Brazil.
Interestingly/Amusingly he feels his biggest problem is not the potential for debate on abortion (it’s currently a no no except in extreme circumstances) but the number of Catholics becoming Evangelicals.
Pope Benedict is sure of a warm welcome from the Catholic faithful in Brazil, says the BBC’s Simon Watts.
But his problems is that both he and the local Catholic hierarchy are more conservative than most Brazilians.
To the converts, the evangelicals offer the chance of redemption now, rather than in the after-life, as well as a social network and help with problems like drink or drugs.
In contrast, Catholic rituals can seem stuffy and out-of-touch with day-to-day reality for most Brazilians, our correspondent adds.
I’ll probably think about this more later in a fun Introduction to System Configuration lecture!
God bless
Dan
10th May 2007
8:07 pm
You may well find that evangelicals are the medias’ biggest problem for the pope.