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Papal election

And I'll have to eat crow... I really didn't expect the enforcer to do it - he must have had his heavies lean on the other cardinals.

Oh well there goes any chance of any "progressive" thinking for probably 10 years at least.
 
Darat said:
And I'll have to eat crow... I really didn't expect the enforcer to do it - he must have had his heavies lean on the other cardinals.

Oh well there goes any chance of any "progressive" thinking for probably 10 years at least.
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You give him 10 years?
 
he is going to push the catholic faith back 100 years, so 10 years is a good guess. I believe in round numbers just like god does.

"...warn the faithful about tendencies that he considered dangers to the faith: sects, ideologies like Marxism, liberalism, atheism, agnosticism and relativism — the ideology that there are no absolute truths.

"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism," he said, speaking in Italian. "Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. "

How come they have so much trouble seeing any middle ground? it's always adhear to centuries old tradition or throw everything to the wind and forget about it. You either know all "god does it and operates in mysterious ways" or you know nothing and let care go to the wind.

This guy has more problems than the last one. Why is it that the pope has to be so old?
 
I'll_buy_that said:
he is going to push the catholic faith back 100 years, so 10 years is a good guess. I believe in round numbers just like god does.
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No way would the church move that fast


This guy has more problems than the last one. Why is it that the pope has to be so old? [/B]
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So he isn't around for as long.
 
Meadmaker said:
For all we know, that is what they do.

Here's a thought about media speculation. Today, I've heard pundits saying that the move to a fourth ballot probably means that Cardinal Ratzinger didn't have a lock on things and that if he didn't win by today, his chances were slipping as other alliances form.

Huh? How would these guys know?
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In other words, the election of JPII proves that the cardinals really can keep a secret, and that the speculation on the outside is truly uninformed.
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As I was writing the above, Benedict XVI was getting ready to greet the crowds from the balcony.

If there is a God, he must want me to look silly.
 
Now that the cardinals have conclaved and voted and God has guided their hand in the selection of the pope...what if he turns out to be a bad pope? Is it going to be God's fault?
 
No, they just weren't praying hard enough. they couldn't hear the lords call, they had all that electronic jamming equipment to keep snoops out, so god's voice was probably jammed to.
 
Why don't they ever have a Warrior Pope anymore (such as Pope Julius II)? Now that would be more interesting, and newspapers would have something to actually write about.
 
jimmygun said:
Now that the cardinals have conclaved and voted and God has guided their hand in the selection of the pope...what if he turns out to be a bad pope? Is it going to be God's fault?
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Here's what I said up thread a few posts:


"Read an interesting article today in which Cardinal Ratzinger, widely hailed as a prime Pope candidate, said that looking back on history, he was pretty sure that the Holy Spirit hadn't always been responsible for Pope selection, as he was fairly certain that the Holy Spirit would not have picked some of losers from the past.

What he said was that the Holy Spirit was available to guide the selection process, if the Cardinals were listening, and that the Holy Spirit would protect the Church even if they got a bad Pope."


I wonder if he thinks the cardinals listened to the Holy Spirit this time.
 
Who says the holy spirit has no sense of humor?

Somebody here called him Pope Rat Zinger, and I cracked up with literally unholy glee!

Then somebody else called him Pope Ranziger! His Holiness Pope Rancider!

My mind has been poisoned forever! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
 
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