Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post

It seems that this new 'conduit of god' is also a man who frowns upon contraception. Now that I find irresponsible and selfish in the extreme, and a policy that greatly affects the good people of the Philippines and other poorer Catholic countries where massive overpopulation is clearly THE main problem.
's MOST definitely a VERY you've put forward there, Graham ... and it's a view with which 100%. Sadly, had the youngest candidate, the 58-yo Filipino Cardinal (3rd in the "pecking order", by all accounts) been elected instead, it wouldn't likely have made any difference to the "thorny" debate about contraception. Worsened it, even ... as such an outcome could've jeopardised the commendable progress to date, of the vital RH Bill.