Rodman backs black papal candidate
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March 14, 2013, Thursday
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AFTER raising eyebrows by going to North Korea, former US basketball star Dennis Rodman is continuing his bizarre global tour by visiting Rome - purportedly to help Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson become the first black pope.
But he didn't seem too sure who he was supposed to be promoting when asked about it yesterday. "From Africa right?" Rodman asked, wearing a hat and T-shirt promoting the Irish betting firm that organized his trip.
Rodman said he was sure the next pope would be black and that he would like to meet him in Africa on his self-styled mission to promote world peace.
Even Rodman's plans to enter St Peter's Square in a custom-built "pope-mobile" were uncertain yesterday: The vehicle had been delayed by snow in northern Italy.
In Washington, President Barack Obama is rejecting the notion that an American pope would be too closely aligned with the US government.
Obama says the Roman Catholic bishops in the US "don't seem to be taking orders from me." And he says an American pope would preside just as effectively as a leader of the Catholic church from any other country.
No American has ever served as pontiff and some cardinals worry an American pope's actions would be viewed as serving the US instead of the church.
But he didn't seem too sure who he was supposed to be promoting when asked about it yesterday. "From Africa right?" Rodman asked, wearing a hat and T-shirt promoting the Irish betting firm that organized his trip.
Rodman said he was sure the next pope would be black and that he would like to meet him in Africa on his self-styled mission to promote world peace.
Even Rodman's plans to enter St Peter's Square in a custom-built "pope-mobile" were uncertain yesterday: The vehicle had been delayed by snow in northern Italy.
In Washington, President Barack Obama is rejecting the notion that an American pope would be too closely aligned with the US government.
Obama says the Roman Catholic bishops in the US "don't seem to be taking orders from me." And he says an American pope would preside just as effectively as a leader of the Catholic church from any other country.
No American has ever served as pontiff and some cardinals worry an American pope's actions would be viewed as serving the US instead of the church.
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