As Matt Abbott has already told us, we can look forward to some truly miserable reporting from the mainstream press outlets on Church matters between now and the Coronation of Pope Benedict XVI’s successor.
The UK’s Telegraph gives us such a specimen. My guess is that if Cardinal Turkson bothered to read the piece, he would have blanched at the implication that he is somehow “running” for the office. The article left me with a sense that after the Cardinal answered the journalist’s questions concerning his ideas for what the next Holy Father will face and how he should face it, the journalist wrapped select quotes around a narrative that implies that the Cardinal is campaigning for the Supreme Pontificate.
Secular journalists tend cover stories from the perspective of what they know: democratic electoral politics, sex scandals, the agendas of liberal agitants (homosexualists, feminists, population control freaks, etc.), sex scandals, financial mismanagement, sex scandals, controversies generated by remarks the journalists themselves don’t understands, sex scandals, etc.
For all that, it’s good to know of the Ghanan Prelate’s stand on certain things that fit in the Telegraph’s template of issues that matter: “Cardinal Turkson has caused controversy in the past both by screening a video claiming that Europe faced being overrun by Muslims and by insisting that condoms were not the solution to preventing HIV.”
Just remember: It’s not a horse race.
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