I enjoyed this interview with Desmond Tutu, but am mostly posting it because I wanted to talk about Tutu’s appearance on The Daily Show a couple months ago. Unfortunately the clip on The Daily Show’s site doesn’t include my favorite part of the interview, but I think you can get the same feeling from what they do have.
Anyway, here’s the thing: I didn’t really know anything about Tutu before I saw him on TDS, but all of a sudden, here’s this child-like 70something archbishop on my TV, laughing hysterically at Jon Stewart one second, his eyes lighting up with delight in humanity the next second. I cried, saved the episode, and watch those three minutes whenever I need a quick pick-me-up.
I’m no great fan of organized religion, but if someone this full of love and light is Catholic, well, they can’t be all bad.
I still don’t know that much about him, so if he’s actually been mired in scandal that just isn’t mentioned in the Newsweek article, please, don’t tell me about it.