Pope adviser digs hole, hits bottom, but Vatican digs again
Oh my. The BBC reports that all is not well at Pope HQ. Senior adviser and old git Cardinal Walter Kasper, when recently interviewed, referred to the UK as a “Third World country” marked by “a new and aggressive atheism”. Hole dug, the Vatican then said that the cardinal had not intended “any kind of slight” (oh, so that’s OK then), and was referring to the UK’s multicultural society (oh, so that’s—what? Wait a minute!). Kasper’s comment had in fact been “when you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country”. Nice.
The UK’s got all sorts of problems when it comes to tribalism, but, by and large, it doesn’t do too bad. This island’s been a melting-pot nation of immigrants for centuries, and that’s part of what has made it great. To criticise the UK on the basis of its multiculturalism shows up Kasper and co. as being an even bigger shower of arseholes than most Brits thought in the first place.
They could have said:
…because we love third-world countries, as the Pope is very popular in many of them.
Nice to see someone share a similar level of disdain for the Pope’s visit as myself, but able to better articulate it than me.
They’re a bunch of cheeky bastards, taking our money for a four-day visit, only to then insult the country as soon as their feet hit our tarmac.
“Pope adviser digs hole, hits bottom”
*snigger*