Wont see this in many stories about the new Pope

[Cain]

This, I believe for sure. Liberation theology was not well met with by the Vatican, either.

The various factions are still fighting like it's Vatican II.  Liberation Theology is almost as bad as mass no longer being given in Latin.  No joke.

[Junkenstein]

I''m not hearing many Mafia grumblings. I would have thought something curious and violent would have occurred by now. Cain?

[Pergamos]

I was gonna ask about that. A powerful figure in Argentina is almost GUARANTEED to have filth on their hands.

So why did the college of Cardinals choose  him instead of a cardinal who had helped protect people from an abusive regime?

[Junkenstein]

I was gonna ask about that. A powerful figure in Argentina is almost GUARANTEED to have filth on their hands.

So why did the college of Cardinals choose  him instead of a cardinal who had helped protect people from an abusive regime?

I would suspect the word we may be looking for is "patsy"

[Cain]

Because they're still fighting Vatican II.

He was a compromise choice between an Italian and the need to bolster the South American Church against Protestant encroachment.

As for the Mafia, I have no clue.  As far as I know, the Mafia-Vatican banking axis is more or less defunct nowadays.

[Junkenstein]

Ah, I thought that was still a thing.

[Cain]

Well, when HSBC practically has a preferential treatment for organised crime program running, there isn't so much need to rely on the kiddy-fiddlers in robes, you know?

[Junkenstein]

True, I just thought it'd be good practice to spread the risk around a few places. Seems a bit eggs in one basket.

[Cain]

If that basket's got state-backed impunity, it's a pretty good basket to choose.

[Junkenstein]

Good point, well made.

Too big to fail, jail or assail really.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I was gonna ask about that. A powerful figure in Argentina is almost GUARANTEED to have filth on their hands.

So why did the college of Cardinals choose  him instead of a cardinal who had helped protect people from an abusive regime?

Because he had the other guy tortured and killed. Ba-dum-tsssh. (rimshot)

[trippinprincezz13]

I kind of think it's shitty to castigate millions of priests just because some of them are really shitty people. Don't get me wrong, I despise the Vatican itself and trust the upper echelon of the Church about as far as I can throw it, but most priests are no more evil than anyone else.

Oh, I know, I was exaggerating a bit out of disgust. I was raised Catholic and still have a soft spot for it. I felt bad when the sex scandel broke and everyone was painted with the same broad brush. But I also learned what one of the priests at my first parish did to someone close, and how he was just transferred to another parish, or possibly to whereever old creepy priests go to retire. And that it wasn't the first time he had been transferred.

Priest at second parish died under....embarassing circumstances. And while I don't believe anything illegal was involved, or perhaps there wasn't time to find anything illegal, when one of the other priests tried to address it with some of the local higher-ups, he was transferred out of the area.

But that still doesn't speak for EVERY priest out there. I suppose it's really just disgust with the institution as opposed to each priest individually.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/15/17325546-vatican-says-dirty-war-accusations-about-pope-francis-just-a-left-wing-smear?lite

[Cain]

Ah yes, left wing smears...from all those right wing Argentinian military officers, who testified to his actions during the dirty war.

Sneaky Communist bastards.  I bet they secretly make Catholic priests sexually molest kids, too.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Yep. At gunpoint.