I was just in Italy and took a bus tour past the Vatican. I think it is time for new blood and the next conclave should be interesting. I, without knowing enough but that never stops me, am interested in Cardinal Taigle of the Philippines. He seems like a good candidate.

I struggle to be a halfway OK catholic. don't quite succeed. I figure I am only half catholic because my mother was protestant but converted. Otherwise I probaby go back to st. patrick, and irish catholicism has a different route than other constantine based origins. Anyway, i want an option of a latin mass, better music, (the old kind), approval if not mandation of birth control, married and women and both priests, cardinals and popes.