Posted on 02/11/2013 7:52:09 PM PST by haffast
Is it true that you must be a Cardinal in order to become the Pope?
Hmmmmmmmm. Do you think Obama has a shot?
No doubt his memos as a cardinal to the bishops to protect the pedophile priests by moving them to new parishes, rather than to turn them into local law enforcement authorities, was a very great burden on his mind, and soul. I suspect that the assistant, who he fired and had jailed, had obtained documents detailing the cardinal’s sins. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I suppose the former assistant will “sell” the documents to the highest bidder.
This is a bad precedent. I wish the Holy Father had stayed in office until he was at least bedridden, comatose or dead. Just because your health is not at 100 percent, is no reason for a Pope or a monarch like Queen Elizabeth to vacate the office. Give them a right hand man to help carry out strenuous diplomatic trips like the Queen has Will, Kate, Harry.
Hmmmmmmmm. Do you think Obama has a shot?
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The media are salivating.....hoping for a ‘black one’....who’s ‘for abortion’ and ‘contraception’. Any other time they could CARE LESS. Just want someone who thinks like THEY do and that the Catholic Church should ‘move forward’.
I’m not Catholic, but it makes me sick how they control the narrative on what Christianity/Catholicism should be.
Ultimately......they want to turn the entire Catholic and Protestant faiths into a Unitarian vision. New-age nothing-ness. Void of biblical foundations.
Yes - a vacuum of faith. Which, unfortunately, holds the door wide open for Islam.
Bang! Exactly.
WHAT??? He’s QUITTING???
This I frankly never expected to see. Ratzinger had a stiff upper lip. Now the speculation is going to go agog.
And to add to that.....the Commies are still SERIOUSLY pi$$ed that Pope John Paul, Reagan and Thatcher were responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
They are out for blood.
I am surprised that Rome would go looey that easily... what with all the tradition they keep... but again anything’s possible. It is a devilish world. They ain’t going to listen to Barack Obama, though.
When the trial starts the speculation will be over.
what... they were threatening to impeach him or something? really odd.
I’m seeing the ‘shifts’ in other faiths. Don’t count it out. Our churches have been infiltrated.
Some Southern Baptists still seem to be OK... but I just got a leaflet from one that seemed to have a good, even powerful spirit about it... and it’s almost apologetic in tone. And I don’t mean Christian apologetics. What happened to a gospel of which we are not ashamed?
The problem is the Media, HiTech. The MSM. The message. The mantra. The meme. They control everything......and the people behind it. They decide what is ‘cool’ and what is not. I was watching NCIS this afternoon.......and lo and behold.....a series about a football team that had questions about gay players. It’s PUSH, PUSH, PUSH. Agenda, agenda, agenda.
I’m SICK of the propaganda.
I don’t think one has to be a Cardinal to become Pope. It’s rather like one doesn’t have to be a Congressman to become Speaker of the House or one doesn’t have to be a lawyer to become a SCOTUS justice.
Ya mean a bishop, like, say, Joey Bishop (if he were available) could become a Papa?
Media is circuses now (and food stamps are bread). They are entertainment in all but the name.
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