Cardinal Walter Kasper got bounced from the entourage accompanying the Pope to Great Britain. They say it's a health issue, but probably it's because he supposedly slighted London by cracking that Heathrow Airport was like a "third world country."
This was taken as a slight to London, but you could just as well say it's a slight to third world countries, who, after all, have millions of perfectly fine people, but who are just poor, that's all. In fact, many millions of those millions are Catholics.
Come to think of it, I once said the same thing about Midway Airport in Chicago. It was around Christmas, and the place was jam-packed. Many different languages could be heard in the din, and, given Christmas, everybody was in a pretty good mood. I thought to myself, "This is like a third world country," but meant it as a compliment.
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