Obama: American Pope Would Preside Effectively

By Alex Mangini
All Media NY
March 13, 2013

http://www.allmediany.com/news/7655-obama-american-pope-would-preside-effectively


As the world waits for the Catholic cardinals in the Vatican to select the church’s next pope, President Barack Obama weighed in on the matter in an interview with CBS, expressing his desire to see an American at the top of the Papacy.

”It seems to me that an American pope would preside just as effectively as a Polish pope or an Italian pope or a Guatemalan pope,” Obama told George Stephanopoulos.

“I don’t know if you’ve checked lately, but the Conference of Catholic Bishops here in the United States don’t seem to be takin’ orders from me,” Obama continued. “My hope is—based on what I know about the Catholic Church and the terrific work that they’ve done around the world and certainly in this country, and, you know helping those who are less fortunate—is that you have a pope who sustains and maintains what I consider the central message of the gospel. And that is that we treat everybody as children of God and that we love them the way Jesus Christ taught us to love ’em.”