Posted on 10/13/2014 6:14:15 AM PDT by marshmallow
Before the October 10 announcement that Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi would share this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, many journalists had expected that Pope Francis would take the award. But John Allen of Crux points out that a key member of the Nobel committee has vowed not to name any Pope for the prize.
In 2001, Allen recalls, Lutheran Bishop Gunnar Staalseth, a member of the awards committee, stated his public opposition to a Nobel Prize for St. John Paul II. He said that he would block any award for a Roman Pontiff as long as the Catholic Church continued to oppose contraception.
The Nobel Peace Prize (Crux, scroll down)
Is it this week that we're listening to John Allen?
Being “UN-considered” for the (IG)Nobel Peace Prize is a great honor!
Just look at the ones who have GOTTEN it!
If the committee had any integrity at all, they would have been pushing to remove Lutheran Bishop Gunnar Staalseth from their ranks ever since 2001. Prejudiced, bigoted, unfair — he doesn’t deserve to be selecting anyone.
There is no such week.
What on earth would Pope Francis deserve the prize for at this time? Especially vis-a-vis that young girl who stood up to the Taliban?
The pope could be considered because the criteria are subjective and ever shifting. Obama got his prize for having accomplished exactly zero working towards world peace.
I thought for sure that ISIS was going to win the “Peace Prize” this year.
I’m surprised they didn’t include a Marxist “Pope” which appeases Muslims and attacks capitalism.
AMEN.
So Francis can’t be all bad.
“I thought for sure that ISIS was going to win the “Peace Prize” this year.”
Can’t happen. They are not Islam and Islam is the religion of peace.
One (or several - Gore, Arafat...) undeserving recipient does not justify another undeserving recipient. At least to me. Call it the two-wrongs-don’t-make-a-right principle.
This year’s choice looks like the first good choice in years.
The true peace makers of the world are the US Armed Forces. They have bled and died to establish peace wherever they have been called, only to have politicians destroy their work.
Hooray for the men and women in uniform - boo to politicians.
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