Next Pope!

[jkeisenh]

yes.  it's an organization with a great future, you know, that welcomes nazis but shuns gay people and makes sure women have at best a fringe role in its business...

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
  Why is he Benedict XIV? Not Ratzenger I?

i was hoping for a more old skool name, like celestine or boniface or callixtus or sixtus.  he could of been sixtus vi.

[helicon1]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  it's good to see that ex-nazis have a place in the church

It was compulsory to join at that time. Read the article at the Times
 for more information. I wouldn't consider him a Nazi.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Glass Arm Shattering:
   

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  it's good to see that ex-nazis have a place in the church

It was compulsory to join at that time. Read the article at the Times
 for more information. I wouldn't consider him a Nazi. [/b]

i know, i was being sarcastic ... still though, there were germans who looked past their herd mentality and dissented ... i guess i just hoped that the moral voice of more than a billion people could have been one of them

[HoyaSaxa03]

�??Resistance was truly impossible,�?� Georg Ratzinger said. �??Before we were conscripted, one of our teachers said we should fight and become heroic Nazis and another told us not to worry as only one soldier in a thousand was killed. But neither of us ever used a rifle against the enemy.�?�
 
 Some locals in Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions. �??It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,�?� she said. �??The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.�?�
 
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 that's kinda what i was referring to, but in all honesty i don't think it's a huge deal, the guy was a product of his times, much like people who grew up in the jim crow south ... i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow

[Liberte]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  ....i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow

I would have settled for his having learned something about the downside of rigid ideological purity from the experience.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Liberte:
   

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  ....i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow

I would have settled for his having learned something about the downside of rigid ideological purity from the experience. [/b]

EXCELLENT point.  I'm disappointed, but really, would they ever nominate a Pope that made me happy?  I don't think so...Archbishop Thomas McCarick wasn't in the running.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by Liberte:
   

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  ....i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow

I would have settled for his having learned something about the downside of rigid ideological purity from the experience. [/b]

beautifully said...

[hitman]

at his coronation, they all high stepped, put hands up in the air, and yelled "Zig Heil! (sp?)"
 
 this is all such bullshit...no matter what...

[nkotb]

I'm not sure of the answer, but I can tell you a drunken, 80-year-old biker at my local bar didn't like the name.  Seems Ratzinger should've chosen something more patriotic, since it was too close to Benedict Arnold for his liking.  I heart America.
 
   

Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
  Why is he Benedict XIV? Not Ratzenger I?

[nkotb]

Seperated at birth?
 
  <img src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/LAW/03/16/blake.case/story.blake.reax.pool.jpg" alt=" - " />  
 
  <img src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WORLD/europe/04/20/pope.wednesday/story.greetings.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
  <img src="http://www.blueharvest.net/images/prequel/pr/young-palpatine.jpg" alt=" - " />

Robert Blake has announced that he's currently rather destitute.  He's so poor, in fact, that, yesterday, he had to go back into Denny's to retrieve his pistol.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
  Robert Blake has announced that he's currently rather poor.  He's so poor, in fact, that, yesterday, he had to go back into Denny's to retrieve his pistol.

**rimshot**, awkwardly fake paul schaeffer laugh

Yeah, I stole that from Leno, actually.

[joeavrage]

Now they're taking odds for the *next* pope, i.e. the one after Benedict
 
 http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=show_type_by_main_market&category=SPECIALS&ev_class_id=45&id=520
 
 And check who's listed at 1000-1 !!!!!
 
 

Originally posted by My Cat Can DJ:
   

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  BONO!!!
 
 
 And he'll be known as "Pope Ringo George I" just to keep the trend going.

Funny you should say that...here's an exchange I had with PaddyPower.com, a betting agency in Ireland, last Monday:
 
 From: MyCat CanDJ [mailto:mycatcandj@gmail.com]
 > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:50 PM
 > To: support@paddypower.net
 > Subject: Request
 >
 > Dear Administrator:
 >
 >Please add Paul "Bono" Hewson to this list.
 
 web page
 >
 > I have a very strong feeling about this one, and I am very rarely wrong.
 >
 > Best
 
 
 >> Response (Micheal)   04/04/2005 06:48 PM
 >>Hi,
 
 >>Thank you for your mail,
 
 >>We will not be adding Bono to the list for next Pope im afraid,
 >>although if you wish to back him we will offer you a price of 500-1,
 >>you can call dial a bet at 1800 721 821 (irl) or 08000 565 265 (uk)."
 
 What's weird is, at the time, they were giving odds of 1000-1 for a 'Father Dougal Maguire of Craggy Island' so apparently they weren't prepared to totally rule Bono out... [/b]