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04-18-2005, 03:36 PM
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Election of the New Pope
anyone else interested in seeing all this take place and play out? i am! i have been watching the live video on yahoo.com and saw the black smoke. so i guess i will have to wait again tomorrow.
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04-18-2005, 05:12 PM
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Eligo in Summum Pontificem... (I elect as Supreme Pontiff)... hold on, wait a minute... we'll try again tomorrow.
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04-18-2005, 10:33 PM
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Michael Moore was in Rome campaigning and handing out goodie bags...
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04-19-2005, 01:07 PM
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Cnn.com is reporting there is a new pope.
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04-19-2005, 01:09 PM
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There Is A New Pope
I started to cry happy tears when I was watching TV & they broke into my program to tell us.
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04-19-2005, 01:20 PM
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I am so proud to be watching history happening for Catholics. I called my grandma and she was crying and that got me a little teary eyed. I am Catholic and elated that there is a new leader of the Roman-Catholic Church.
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04-19-2005, 01:32 PM
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i wish i was there right now. this is the most exciting thing to happen today.
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04-19-2005, 01:40 PM
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It's Cardinal Ratzinger, who will be Pope Benedict XVI.
Edited because the news people got screwed up on their Latin and said "XXVI" rather than "XVI."
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04-19-2005, 02:09 PM
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I'm Catholic but not very religious. When the bells started ringing I got chills and when he came out I got so teared up. I haven't been to church (besides funeral masses) in a while and watching this historic tradition has really made me want to start going.
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04-19-2005, 02:20 PM
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A priest in my office said that the new Pope will be bad for American Catholics. Any thoughts?
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04-19-2005, 02:22 PM
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This guy is supposed to be verrrrrry conservative. I was sort of hoping to have a more liberal pope. It would be interesting to see some reforms go on in the church. Not to mention that I don't like feeling guilty everytime I take birth control.
He is old though. 78. Maybe there will be another one in the next 10 years?
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04-19-2005, 02:22 PM
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Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
A priest in my office said that the new Pope will be bad for American Catholics. Any thoughts?
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He's very conservative, and has many of the same stances as the previous pope- against homosexuals, women's involvement in the church. Haven't seen mention of his birth control stance but i'd bet it was the same.
I am surprised that they named one so old. He's 78.
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04-19-2005, 02:24 PM
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Just a side question: What does everyone think about the pope prophecies? Centuries ago, St. Malachy "predicted" a list of popes with Latin mottos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
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04-19-2005, 02:26 PM
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Originally posted by kddani
He's very conservative, and has many of the same stances as the previous pope- against homosexuals, women's involvement in the church. Haven't seen mention of his birth control stance but i'd bet it was the same.
I am surprised that they named one so old. He's 78.
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I thought their preference had been someone who was older; my understanding was that they didn't want the next Pope to serve for quite as long as the last one, and would pick and older candidate to assure that it would work out that way.
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04-19-2005, 02:29 PM
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I thought their preference had been someone who was older; my understanding was that they didn't want the next Pope to serve for quite as long as the last one, and would pick and older candidate to assure that it would work out that way.
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Maybe, I haven't been following it as closely as to who's saying what. I'm guessing he's in decent health, or as much as you can be for a 78 year old.
I'm happy they picked someone so fast, but very disappointed in that the church doesn't seem to want to make any changes. They're losing young people right and left. And refusing to keep with the times will always hurt an organization in the long run.
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