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Pope Benedict XVI Elected in Landslide: Report
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | April 21, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 04/21/2005 7:55:14 AM PDT by Loyalist

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The exact number of votes in favour of Joseph Ratzinger will likely never be known, as records of the four ballots of this week's conclave have been sealed and can only be opened upon order of the pontiff himself.

HOW CONVEEEEEENIENT! Quick, get the courts in King County to unseal the records!

Seriously folks, any guesses about which Cardinals were the holdouts?

1 posted on 04/21/2005 7:55:15 AM PDT by Loyalist
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Dan Rather is still holding out declaring Ratzinger the winner.


2 posted on 04/21/2005 7:56:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
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So much for believing that he will cause division in the Catholic church.

I wonder if the American Cardinals were more in the dissent than the average nation?


3 posted on 04/21/2005 8:01:18 AM PDT by Preachin' (Keep the Kerry/Edwards tags on your cars so we can identify the root of your disease.)
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It is my understand that this is fairly typical in Papal elections. When it becomes obvious who will eventually garner the votes, most of the Cardinals will switch to the favorite. Nobody wants to be on the wrong side of the new Pope.


4 posted on 04/21/2005 8:01:26 AM PDT by CollegeRepublican
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I've heard that Al Gore is planning on fighting the election results and demanding a recount, as he feels he won the pope-ular vote....


5 posted on 04/21/2005 8:01:53 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (This tagline is Bush's fault.)
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I don't think we're supposed to know. I can accept that there are things we should not know. That won't stop speculation however.


6 posted on 04/21/2005 8:02:26 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (CARPE TUNNEL - seize the mouse)
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Uh huh...


7 posted on 04/21/2005 8:02:32 AM PDT by SMARTY
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I heard a few of the Cardinals accidently voted for Pat Buchanan. Well at least he is a Catholic.


8 posted on 04/21/2005 8:02:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
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with liberal cardinals supporting Cardinal Martini deciding to back Pope Benedict XVI

This seems to have spoiled St. Malachy's prophecies, as Martini, the "glory of the olive", lost.

9 posted on 04/21/2005 8:03:43 AM PDT by SedVictaCatoni (<><)
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*cough* ...Mahoney... *cough*


10 posted on 04/21/2005 8:05:34 AM PDT by mike182d ("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
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Mahony no doubt did not vote for Ratzinger.
11 posted on 04/21/2005 8:05:41 AM PDT by utahagen
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The DUers think Bush and Karl Rove were behind all this.


12 posted on 04/21/2005 8:16:46 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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I can pretty much guarantee that Roger Cardinal Mahony was a holdout, as well as Gottfried Cardinal Danneels and there may well have been another American.

I cannot wait for the Pope to gracefully accept Mahony's mandatory resignation in a few years.

13 posted on 04/21/2005 8:16:54 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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14 posted on 04/21/2005 8:17:40 AM PDT by firewalk
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Seriously folks, any guesses about which Cardinals were the holdouts?

I'll guess Danneels, Kaspar, Mahony.

15 posted on 04/21/2005 8:19:09 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (habemus papum, Benedict XVI)
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I can pretty much guarantee that Roger Cardinal Mahony was a holdout,

I wouldn't be so sure ... RCM is a politician, and a weasel. He might have voted for B16 just to try to get on his good side. I seem to recall that Fr. Mahoney, before he was consecrated a Bishop, talked and wrote like a real conservative.

16 posted on 04/21/2005 8:19:44 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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LOL, that would figure.


17 posted on 04/21/2005 8:19:54 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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I heard a few of the Cardinals accidently voted for Pat Buchanan. Well at least he is a Catholic.

As a baptised Catholic male who attained the age of reason, Pat was elligable.

18 posted on 04/21/2005 8:20:29 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (habemus papum, Benedict XVI)
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I heard a few of the Cardinals accidently voted for Pat Buchanan

No. Birds aren't that stupid. Only democrats.

19 posted on 04/21/2005 8:21:53 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Dear ArrogantBustard,

You're correct that he seemed conservative enough before arriving in Los Angeles. I wonder, though, whether he was hiding his true colors, or whether he really actually changed over time.

He was appointed an auxiliary bishop when he wasn't quite 40. That's pretty young. I always wonder whether it went to his head.

I don't know.


sitetest


20 posted on 04/21/2005 8:28:44 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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