In the search for the new pope which has already begun, one
thing of socio-political and theological
importance would be interesting to watch: among candidates with equal qualifications would
there ever a cardinal from Africa be elected? It's not the race issue; it's the
contraception issue, huge in the overpopulated continent. The Catholic Church
has shown some tendency to update its ways of communicating with the people
through changes in the official “Osservatore Romano” even during the conservative
period of Pope Benedict. Would that be a significant trend or a painless
superficial adjustment to the new times? Is this the time and opportunity to
review the theology on God’s opinion on how to stop creating human lives that
are bound to perish in an environment of extreme poverty, lives which didn’t
have to be created in the first place? And again, it’s about contraception, not
abortion. One wonders which one is the biggest taboo.
-Elena Spilioti
-Elena Spilioti
