OT: White Smoke!

[Vowelguy]

No name yet ...

* Strictly a breaking news thread*, please don't get into whether or not you like the Church/the pope/etc.

 

[VAMike23]

Holy smoke(s)!!!

Literally...!!

 

[meyers7]

Holy smoke(s)!!!

Literally...!!

Dang. Beat me to it.

 

[John Glass]

No name yet ...

* Strictly a breaking news thread*, please don't get into whether or not you like the Church/the pope/etc.

Tim Tebow

 

[VAMike23]

Tim Tebow

Nope - Lady Gaga

 

[Dove]

My Pope app has been active in the last 5 minutes and it's...

Ray Lewis.

 

[jplotinus]

Sheesh, who'd have thunk the boneyard would be my source for this info?

Good grief :-o

 

[VAMike23]

Sheesh, who'd have thunk the boneyard would be my source for this info?

Good grief :-o

LOL same here

 

[Blueballer]

And the new Pope is : Muffet McGraw". What a week she's having!

Hey we may as well have some fun with it. We can't change the outcome.

 

[VAMike23]

Dang. Beat me to it.

 

[meyers7]

I'm old.

 

[Aluminny69]

It's not Brooklyn Pope?

 

[RadyLady]

From the NY Times:
Cardinal Bergoglio took the name FRANCIS I

 

[Icebear]

Yes, Francis I. Some suggesting it is a nod of the head to major changes in the church. A third world pope with a bunch of political experience. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aries. 76 Years old.

 

[VAMike23]

Wow - a very big deal indeed for the Latin American world. Huge!

Godspeed to him, he has a lot of managerial cleanup to do. I hope those demands don't take him away from being the inspirational leader that so many need him to be. JP II is still sorely missed in that regard.

 

[Icebear]

Wow - a very big deal indeed for the Latin American world. Huge!

Godspeed to him, he has a lot of managerial cleanup to do. I hope those demands don't take him away from being the inspirational leader that so many need him to be. JP II is still sorely missed in that regard.

He has managed one of the largest and most difficult archdiocese in the church so he has structural experience. His tone does sound like the simplicity so embodied in the ministry of John XXIII. He has kept his distance from the liberation theology that has been extensively celebrated by areas of the Latin American church.

 

[OneTrickPony]

His tone does sound like John XXIII.

That would be welcome...

 

[Icebear]

That would be welcome...

No pope was so critical to the ecumenical movement than John XXIII

 

[temery]

He has managed one of the largest and most difficult archdiocese in the church so he has structural experience. His tone does sound like the simplicity so embodied in the ministry of John XXIII. He has kept his distance from the liberation theology that has been extensively celebrated by areas of the Latin American church.

Is the pope in any way significant outside of Catholicism?

 

[msf22b]

Perhaps, too old, a caretaker.

 

[Icebear]

Is the pope in any way significant outside of Catholicism?

Yes, the nature of the pope broadly impacts relationships across the church. The participation of the Roman Catholic church in ecumenical dialogs not only open discussions between the Roman church and specific protestant traditions but the tone led protestant denominations into dialog with each other.

 

[Icebear]

Perhaps, too old, a caretaker.

Much of that will depend on his health more than age.

 

[VAMike23]

Is the pope in any way significant outside of Catholicism?

Well, JP II did quite a bit behind the scenes in the fight against communism from what I understand. Not sure the Iron Curtain would have fallen when it did without him. And perhaps it might not have been as bloodless.

But this is only from things I've read in the news, and I don't really recall many of the details.

 

[Aluminny69]

He is a Jesuit...

Yo Frankie!

 

[rjp172]

Is the pope in any way significant outside of Catholicism?

Unfortunately, religion plays a strong role in influencing politics. The Pope has an impact on the world as long as they take the church's stance on political and social issues.