Irish pope is called for in Los Angeles Times op-ed article

thetint-RESPECT. This Martin guy is not to be trusted. Anyone out of that dispicable corporation should NOT be trusted...

Rose - you said 'men have no rights on claims of a woman's body. if you want children you have them'. Similarly, a woman has no rights on claims to a baby's body.

While I don't agree 100% with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, I whole-heartedly support him as the best candidate for Pope, even if he's not a cardinal. This is an excellent op-ed piece, well worth reading.

Martin has nothing to offer. Every time he gives one of his mealy mouthed ‘apologies’ he starts adding caveats the next day. How many priests did he fire, remove, report to the police? None.

As an X Roman Catholic I WOULD WELCOME a fresh breeze into the church by Electing an Irish Pope. maybe Martin would clean up the corruption & Sins of the church Fathers. Its time to bring the church into the 21 st century and get all the pedophile.s out of Gods House

Fat chance. ... But if he is chosen he will need a series of operations to remove the knives from his back.

mreinhar2001, your rebuke was deserved. My comment on Mass was gratuitous, adding nothing of substance to the matter being discussed. My apologies.

I wouldn't trust that bozo Martin as far as I'd throw him.

SeamusMor, 12.35pm today - Of course!!! - How could we have missed “the sign” when Pope Benedict started his pastoral visit to the UK in Scotland a few years ago with Keith Cardinal O’Brien beside him!! Not only is Keith a very Holy and wholly-Christian man, born in Northern Ireland and raised in Scotland by devout Irish Catholic parents, but he’s also a qualified Scientist, well-learned in that profession, well capable of promulgating the inexplicable science of Christ’s Miracles, including those happening in our present-day world and he’s well-travelled to and from other countries. Cardinal O’Brien is also known for being, Christ-like, out-spoken on behalf of marginalised people – those who are poor, LGBT- and prostitution- leaning people, divorced men and women, women who’ve had abortions and especially on behalf of human rights. He, like Archbishop Martin of Dublin, could be the “we-of-the-peoples’ choice” of being “Our Man in Rome” by the grace of God. Whomever is asked by the majority vote within the Cardinals’ enclave to “accept THIS RESPONSIBILITY”, whether whoever that is, within or without the College of Cardinals, to take on the burden of being our next Pope, I will accept his election and honour The Holy Spirit’s Wisdom of choice.

While the College of Cardinals will be burdened, “enclavé” (i.e. locked in commune with each other and the Holy Spirit of Wisdom) with the huge responsibility of electing the next Pope of the Whole Christian Church, and will do so in prayer for guidance before the Holy Spirit of Wisdom present in the Holy Trinity of the Eucharist, we billion plus Catholics should also pray for the Holy Spirit of Wisdom to guide our Cardinals’ wisdom on behalf of our RCC world-wide community, not the stupidity of the gambling community’s odds.

men have no rights on claims of a woman's body. if you want children you have them

men have no rights on claims of a woman's body. if you want children you have them

men have no rights on claims of a woman's body. if you want children you have them

men have no rights on claims of a woman's body. if you want children you have them

Look you the College of Cardinals are in conclave and they will choose one of their own and Martin while I agree with th writer to a point is not a Cardinal.