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Pope Predicted a Short Reign to Cardinals
AP ^ | April 20, 2005 | NICOLE WINFIELD

Posted on 04/20/2005 2:12:39 PM PDT by prairiebreeze

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If a 78 year old liberal pope had been elected the leftist media would have fallen all over themselves trying to make it sound like he was going to live to be 110.

Ghouls....

1 posted on 04/20/2005 2:12:50 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: prairiebreeze

His being 78 years old gets their hopes up.


2 posted on 04/20/2005 2:15:04 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: prairiebreeze

That didn't take long to put him on media death watch.


3 posted on 04/20/2005 2:15:51 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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It doesn't matter much how long he serves (as long as it's longer than JPI!), it's how he uses the time.

May God grant him wisdom, stamina(!) and vigorous health until his time is due.


4 posted on 04/20/2005 2:16:08 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: prairiebreeze

In other words, the man hasn't been seriously ill since 1991, but the Left can always hope.


5 posted on 04/20/2005 2:16:52 PM PDT by Southern Federalist
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To: prairiebreeze

The important thing is that Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandella are disappointed.


6 posted on 04/20/2005 2:19:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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"That didn't take long to put him on media death watch."

Yeah really!


7 posted on 04/20/2005 2:20:00 PM PDT by ladiesview61
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To: prairiebreeze

He's pretty spry for 78. Bush made a good pick IMO.


8 posted on 04/20/2005 2:20:04 PM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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The Vatican refused to comment Wednesday on Benedict's health, citing his privacy.

Just like x42 and John Kerry.

Pope Benedict XVI is a liberal after all.


lol.

The Leftists/Liberals/MSM are in meltdown over the election of this Pope [teeheeheehee, snicker].
9 posted on 04/20/2005 2:22:13 PM PDT by TomGuy
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I'd have to assume the voting Cardinals knew what they were doing and what his condition was.


10 posted on 04/20/2005 2:22:41 PM PDT by leadpenny
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He's pretty spry for 78. Bush made a good pick IMO.

Karl Rove was Ratzinger's campaign manager don'cha know?

11 posted on 04/20/2005 2:23:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
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Lousy Ghouls....

My German Grandma & Grandpa both lived to 99.

Long serve Pope Benedict XVI.

12 posted on 04/20/2005 2:24:09 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain on the dress.)
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"Ratzinger had told the cardinals, "I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace."

He probably meant "short" in comparison to JP2's 26+ years.


13 posted on 04/20/2005 2:25:04 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (CARPE TUNNEL - seize the mouse)
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To: OnTheDress

My German mother lived to 94. ~With all her faculties intact until she died.

She was Bavarian, too!


14 posted on 04/20/2005 2:27:32 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Just because you put lipstick on a pig doesn't mean it smells any better.)
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His being 78 years old gets their hopes up.

Exactly. God grant him many years!

16 posted on 04/20/2005 2:30:23 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican
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To: prairiebreeze

Interesting that the AP didn't bother to state that the Pope's only brother Georg is also a priest, even though they mention him several times in the article.

Just calling him Georg, instead of Father Georg, seems a bit disrespectful.


17 posted on 04/20/2005 2:30:49 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: prairiebreeze; Petronski; fortunecookie


And so the death watch commences....
may our Holy Father live in good health to be 120.


18 posted on 04/20/2005 2:33:11 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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I just wish for him, that his health holds out and that his office isn't a worry and a nuisance to him.

The most poignant thing in this whole process, to me, is that little room they get dressed in before they come out on the balcony. The Room of Tears.

19 posted on 04/20/2005 2:33:46 PM PDT by siunevada
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Sounds distrubingly similar to RUSH's prediction 5seconds after it was announced.

That is his idea that the media would try to paint him as a "holding pattern" pope, only a temporary stopgap to liberalizing the chruch.

Sounds like he was right... again


20 posted on 04/20/2005 2:35:32 PM PDT by FreedomNeocon ( though)
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