is not my concern. The truth, I care whether or not there is Pope, but being surrounded by Catholics, be they practitioners or accommodating, no puedo dejar de verme afectado (sí, afectado) de una forma u otra por la susodicha elección.
A pesar de mi ateísmo, mi primera reacción fue de cierto nivel de horror y, ¿por qué no decirlo?, de decepción. Uno esperaría que una institución como esa iglesia tendería a actualizarse, ir a un, como decían ellos mismos hace unos años, aggiornamento . Pero no. Lo que hemos visto, y lo lamento por mis allegados y no tan allegados católicos, es un retroceso de, cuando menos, tres siglos: cuando el nuevo Papa es quien fue el Gran Inquisidor, como reza el dicho, que Dios nos agarre confesados. Porque el retroceso experimentado durante el pontificado de Woytila, en términos concepts related to the participation of women, homosexuality, contraception and repressive view of sexuality, even within marriage, it will look like liberalism to what we are about to see. For what can be expected of those who headed the Holy Office (no matter if they call it another way, the Inquisition will always be the Inquisition) for 24 years? What can you expect from one of the top leaders of Catholicism as the church in general, turned a blind eye to the thousands (yes thousands) of sexual abuse committed by priests of any hierarchical level?
I have seen and heard on television expressions joy of ordinary Catholics, I feel sorry for them: do not imagine that they were coming. What I do think that comes with this, in my view, unfortunate choice, if not the end, it weakened doctrine (although it sounds paradoxical by Ratzinger's background) and the great exodus of the faithful, who, although having increased in Africa, the rest of the world, including his great bastion that is Latin America, has been in decline and will plummet now.
I repeat: it is not my concern, but I will have to endure stoically (or perhaps not) the cries of those who believe they were going to glory, go exactly in the opposite direction.
Yes Habetis Papam, yo no.
