> How embarrasing is it for the RC church to have a Argentinian Pope?

How embarrasing is it for the RC church to have a Argentinian Pope?

Posted at: 2015-04-20 
Will he try to regain the Falklands too ?

Nationality doesn't matter. He will probably be dead in a few years time anyways.Like, odds are he won't be around ten years from now.

Even if the pope were black as coal and from a lost tribe originating from the centre of the Amazon jungle, would not make any difference to my day to day life so who gives a ****?

It's not embarrassing at all? Why would you say that?

How on earth would he try to regain the Falklands? He has no power to do that what so ever, even less so over a non roman catholic country like the UK!

I am catholic and personally I don't care who we have as Pope but the Pope is the head of the catholic church and not the government so he wont have a say on who rules whatever country and even if he could, would he make a worse mess than we already are in?

Not in the least- he is a man of the poor, a man of the people, faith & good works!

Bergoglio often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.

Why embarrassing. Better than the Nazi pope we just had. He is Italian as well and many South Americans are overjoyed. Its about time the Pope was from that region.

The last of the Falkland Islanders have probably just converted to Church of England, just to make sure he doesn't stop there on his way home from the office. Long commute that.

He can start by asking a certain Argentinian naval commander what he knows about a couple of nuns who were raped and murdered some years ago. A guy by the name of Alfredo Astiz.

It's embarrassing that they've chosen another elderly, white man. But then the whole Church is embarrassing.

popes don't tend to dip their toes in those sorts of temporal waters anymore. personally i think his nationality is immaterial not being a catholic..

Not at all embarrassing. He is above such pettiness

Will he try to regain the Falklands too ?

Why would that ever be embarrassing?