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02-21-2013, 06:30 AM
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As long as we're talking about the Catholic Church... This priest is being expelled from his parish over a photo of himself and another man.
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And your point is . . .?
If we want to just have general Catholic stuff, this is my nominee:
CATHOLIC SMACKDOWN!
Stephen Colbert and Jack White - feel free to play along and shout out the correct answer when they get it wrong!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_884052.html
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02-28-2013, 08:26 PM
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It's official. It is now His Holiness Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus. Interesting that they decided for Pope Emeritus instead of Bishop Emeritus of Rome.
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03-01-2013, 03:16 PM
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Pretty funny spoof of the conclave (that unfortunately hits too close to home)
Hurry! To the conclave!
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03-12-2013, 03:05 PM
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First ballot -- black smoke.
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03-13-2013, 01:39 AM
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LOL! So wrong, yet...
As for the black smoke, I'd have been really surprised if they'd elected a Pope on the first ballot. This may take a while. Hopefully someone will be in place by Easter.
So I have a couple of dumb questions I haven't been able to find answers to.
- Do the cardinal-electors vote on Sundays?
- A cardinal-elector has to be under age 80. What happens if a cardinal-elector turns 80 during the conclave? I'm guessing he becomes ineligible as a candidate for Pope, but does he still get to vote?
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03-13-2013, 02:48 AM
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Can you imagine the tent talk during the conclave?
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03-13-2013, 06:52 AM
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Black smoke again. Although it didn't look that black. They need to work on that!
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03-13-2013, 06:55 AM
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Can you imagine the tent talk during the conclave?
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Lol!
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03-13-2013, 09:21 AM
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As for the black smoke, I'd have been really surprised if they'd elected a Pope on the first ballot. This may take a while. Hopefully someone will be in place by Easter.
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Oh, it would definately have been a surprise if someone were to have been elected on the first ballot. But given recent (last 100+ years) history, I'd expect an election by Sunday.
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So I have a couple of dumb questions I haven't been able to find answers to.
- Do the cardinal-electors vote on Sundays?
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Yes. If they vote for three full days without an election, then they go a day without voting. This go around, that means if by end-of-the-day Friday there is no election of a pope, there will be no voting on Saturday, and voting will resume on Sunday.
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- A cardinal-elector has to be under age 80. What happens if a cardinal-elector turns 80 during the conclave? I'm guessing he becomes ineligible as a candidate for Pope, but does he still get to vote?
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A cardinal-elector must be under 80 on the day before the sede vacante, the day the pope dies or resigns. So, any cardinal who was under 80 on February 27 can participate as an elector, even if he turned 80 before the Conclave started or turns 80 during the conclave.
The person elected pope does not have to be under 80, though. Theoretically/legally, at least as I understand it, any single Catholic male is eligible to be elected. But since the last time someone from outside the college of cardinals was elected was 1378 (Pope Urban VI), and the last time someone not already a priest or bishop was elected was 1513 (Leo X, a Medici -- at that time, cardinal-deacons did not have to be priests or bishops), the chances of it being someone not in the Sistene Chapel are very, very slim.
Of course, until last month, the last time a pope had resigned was 1415 (Gregory XII).
#churchgeek
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We have a Pope!
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03-13-2013, 02:16 PM
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I predict an Italian who is in excess of 75 years of age.
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03-13-2013, 02:30 PM
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I predict an Italian who is in excess of 75 years of age.
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The predictions I heard from someone who has long worked in Vatican Radio were that if the election happened by today, it would likely be Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola (71), Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer (63) or Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet (68).
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03-13-2013, 02:34 PM
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TEAM DiNARDO! (A very, very long shot!)
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