JCC Pope watch MMXIII

I'm sure the pope does not remember the final years of Pope John Paul II with much fondness, if in fact he can still remember them at all.

 

Didn't he also cite lack of strength just before killing Mace Windu?

 

Are you suggesting the pope feings weakness to seduce emotionally conflicted young men!

 

OZK is in danger.

 

I'm guessing I'm going to have to change my avatar.

Seriously, I hope another orthodox individual gets elected.

 

If age weren't already killing him, I'd say that it must be killing Ratzinger that so many Bavarian and Austrian Catholics have largely given up on the church and the institution of marriage. I hardly know anyone under the age of 50 in Austria who has bothered to marry. They live together for decades and have kids and maybe if they think about it go to Catholic mass with their aging parents once a year on Christmas eve.

If they don't elect a Latin American pope they're making a huge mistake. If they elect an Italian pope it will be a toss up whether Ratzinger, or Catholicism itself dies first.

 

I do believe it will be someone from the southern hemisphere, and it'll probably stay that way for a while, maybe one or two Americans thrown in there.

 

Which is why I expect they'll go with an Italian.

 

He's either giving up being the pope for Lent, or it's a big April fool's joke.

 

The guy just got installed, like, yesterday. I bet he just doesn't buy the whole thing.

 

He's not actually retiring. He's dissolving the Vatican, crowning himself emperor, and forming the first Galactic Empire.

 

A pope from the Americas? Argentinan Pope? Brazilian Pope? Canadian pope? American Pope? a Mexican Pope?

probably not an American pope...to out there.

A Canadians are too modest

 

It does seem that way, but apperantly the average reign for the Pontiff is 7.5 years. Most of us grew up knowing JPII, who had the third longest reign, 26 years.

 

Does this mean Kirk Cameron will be Pope now?

 

How cool would it be if the next pope is young, with modern ideals, and he ushered in a new era of change in the Catholic Church - calling for acceptance (not just tolerance) of homosexuals, allowing priests to marry and letting women into the priesthood?

 

Everything except the young part could possibly fly, A young pope...seriously? Imagine 60 years of the same pope...the insanity!




THIS IS MADNESS!

 

Yeah I agree that that would be a problem - but then I don't believe in lifelong terms for any authority figure - or religion for that matter lol.

 

6 decades of fun.

 

Well, one pundit on either CNBC or BBC News (I was channel-hopping at the time) said they might go for an African since that is the area where the Church is growing the most.

 

I heard he's retiring to spend more time with his family.

 

dr paul farmer for pope

 

Dan Brown for pope.

 

trinity the catholic cat for pope