PEPTIC PEPSI SCOLA?

While Cardinal Scola said that he is “not going to get into that whole blame-game thing,” he sounded bitter when he spoke about the mainstream media.

“They were brutal and hurtful. They connected my last name to a soft drink from the United States and started calling me “Pope Pepsi-Cola, ” he said bitterly. But even as he sounded an aggrieved note as he spoke about “the hand I was dealt,” Scola seemed to reserve his harshest criticism for one person: himself. Then he added, “In hindsight I made a big mistake. In my campaign for the papacy, I used George Romney as a role model.”