Digg ThisWell, it’s been a couple of tense days since I announced my candidacy for Pope. Needless to say, I didn’t win.
For the last two days, I’ve done nothing but sit around and watch the smoke pour out of the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, waiting for the news of our new pope.
Man, I haven’t sat around watching clouds of smoke like that since my days in the dorms at Ohio State.
Seriously, though…
I have said, at times, that I don’t necessarily share Cardinal Ratzinger’s (now Pope Benedict XVI) views. I think the best way to share my feelings with you on this would be to echo the words of Jurandir Arauj, of the National Conference of Bishops Afro-Brazilian Section, who told Reuters: “It seems that he is too conservative. Hopefully the Holy Spirit can help him change. We expected a person like John Paul. Somebody who could give the Church alternatives… open the Church to the world, look more at reality.”
He certainly will have a lot to look at, especially in America.
