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Firstly let me say how surprised I am to find no other threads with the above heading, I had hoped to add my comments to an existing posting as I have no particular comment regarding his visit.

I am however a little surprised at the ammount of press coverage given to a Papal aide. Cardinal Walter Kasper, who, according to some tabloids, has said that Britian had become/was becoming a third world country.

When you read the full interview which was given a week or so ago actually said "whenever I fly into Heathrow Airport it seems as if I have flown into a third world country".

I have three sisters, two live in South Africa and the third in the Argentine, and whenever they fly into Heathrow they say the same thing, and without putting to fine a point on it I know just what they mean.

They don't winge and gripe about it but they do comment on the number of non-white (british) officals they meet in immigration, passport control, customs, baggage, duty-free, information, bureau de change etc, etc. The taxi drivers, they tell me, were white - but from the Ukraine.

Now before anyone gets uptight at my comments be aware they are not nor do they intend to be racist in any way, they just go some way, I hope, to explain the Cardinals comments.

Sorry Andy, didn't see your post, I should have added this to yours.

My views summed up in a couple of youtube minutes VERY NSFW

Whenever I fly into Heathrow and see the millenium eye, Big Ben and basically, all things London I never think about it being like a third world country at all.

I think what the cardinal has said is bollocks personally but he has been to third world countries and I havent

Unless his plane lands on Hackney High Street that is....And even then they are coming up in the world these days.

I just dont know many third world countries that look like Britain with those things I mentioned and if they do then its time for me to retract support because it sounds like they are doing ok and maybe its us that need help with all these proposed cut backs due to happen.

Maybe no one cared to comment because no one really cares about the visit
Lets face it, the pope wouldnt agree with the presence of us on this forum would he?

I aint got no beef with religious folk. I just dont subscribe to it. Who are we to tell others how to live? Lets not be like them telling us how we should live for we are alive doing what we want to do.

The church has lost a lot of credibility with me over the years for the mere fact they have succumbed to more lustful temptations than an ex convict on viagra loose in a strip joint.

Kiddie fiddlers are the lowest of the low and no amount of excusing them will work on me especially those in the clergy

Agree Terry;Turned on for the news last night and was bombarded with this person surely overkill for him.

Peter, third world countries are mainly Catholic if that helps you to know what third world countries are. Some are Muslim, lets not forget fucking Somalia et al.
I've been to a few and I am always glad to get back to Blighty and civilisation.
The Cardinal is just like all the rest of the RC upper echelons, blinkered and living in an ivory tower and pissed off because the UK is predominantly a Protestant country with a Protestant Queen. They don't give a fuck about the starving poor as long as they believe in their god and go to fucking church and confession.
Though God help us when Charlie ascends the throne with his sodding liberal views, he might just denounce Protestantism and kiss the Popes arse.