Post by Mrs H on Sept 15, 2010 14:22:37 GMT -1
Pope adviser calls the UK a 'Third World country' The Vatican said the cardinal was pulling out of the visit solely on health grounds One of the Pope's senior advisers has pulled out of the papal visit to Britain, after reportedly describing the UK as a "Third World country" marked by "a new and aggressive atheism".
Cardinal Walter Kasper, 77, made the remarks in a German magazine interview.
The Vatican said the Cardinal had not intended "any kind of slight", and was referring to the UK's multicultural society.
It added that he had simply pulled out of the Pope's visit due to illness.
The German-born Cardinal was quoted as saying to the country's Focus magazine that "when you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country".
He also was reported to have criticised British Airways, saying that when you wear a cross on the airline "you are discriminated against".
Vatican sources said Cardinal Kasper was suffering from gout and had been advised by his doctors not to travel to the UK.
The Pope is spending four days in Scotland and England, starting on Thursday.
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Is that why the Pope is coming to Britain? Well he's a got a strangle hold on most other 3rd World countries by exploiting their circumstances. Although I agree with him about the aggressive atheism. With tossers like him in world organised religion is it really such a bad thing to not believe?
Cardinal Walter Kasper, 77, made the remarks in a German magazine interview.
The Vatican said the Cardinal had not intended "any kind of slight", and was referring to the UK's multicultural society.
It added that he had simply pulled out of the Pope's visit due to illness.
The German-born Cardinal was quoted as saying to the country's Focus magazine that "when you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country".
He also was reported to have criticised British Airways, saying that when you wear a cross on the airline "you are discriminated against".
Vatican sources said Cardinal Kasper was suffering from gout and had been advised by his doctors not to travel to the UK.
The Pope is spending four days in Scotland and England, starting on Thursday.
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Is that why the Pope is coming to Britain? Well he's a got a strangle hold on most other 3rd World countries by exploiting their circumstances. Although I agree with him about the aggressive atheism. With tossers like him in world organised religion is it really such a bad thing to not believe?
Forever without exception. x
