World Wide Wave

23 Dec 2013

Vatican City: Love, politics and dialogue

Europe

What country has no known cases of AIDS?  The very same country with the highest percentage of devout Catholics–Vatican City!

World Wide Wave chats with Bernie Sheedie from Acceptance Melbourne about the Pope, the Cardinal, and all things sacred.

The Pope? “All about open dialogue and that includes issues of sexuality, divorce, women’s issues, gays.”

The Cardinal?  “Cardinal Pell is the ultimate politician.  He’s a politician first before he is a church man. So if you’ve got a liberal Pope in Rome he will probably be leaning to the liberal side of things.”

Learn more about the world’s most religious–and surprisingly accepting–country on W3JOY’s Vatican City webpage.

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