Posted on 04/17/2005 5:04:50 PM PDT by doug from upland
As a Catholic, I am very interested in the person who is going to lead the Church. There are many, many problems and challenges he is going to have.
Among the problems are dwindling church attendance in Europe, AIDS in Africa, and the priest sex scandals in the United States.
Those who are frequently mentioned as the successor to John Paul II include Francis Arinze of Nigeria, Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, and Dionigi Tettamanzi of Italy.
But what about an American pope? It has never happened.
Perhaps the 117 voting Cardinals have overlooked an American who is an obvious choice. He is a retired Cardinal. He is popular. He is very powerful. And he needs a job. Here you go, conclave of Cardinals, how about this candidate?
He is powerful.
Here he is in deep prayer.
He proves that he loves minorities.
He is very popular.
Thanks. I heard about the one from Manila, but not Mexico. Is the latter sick?
Did you actually read what he posted?
I'm not surmising. This post was supposed to be humorous.
FATHER GUIDO SARDUCCI has spent the past twenty-plus years living and working in the United States as gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
Your humor chip is malfunctioning. As far as favorites, if the Cardinals elect another JPII, they can kiss the North American Church goodbye. No married priests = No priests in 25 years.
There are caveats: baptised, not in schism, not a heretic, not excommunicated, etc ...
AIDS in Africa,
For the life of me I cannot imagine how someone thinks this is a problem for the Pope!!!
You couldn't be more wrong. There are a lot of young men in seminaries today. They are more comfortable knowing that the Bishops appointed by JPII are not putting up with the cr*p their predecessors allowed as far as flaming homoxesuals and feminist nuns making the decisions about who would be allowed to study for the priesthood. Faithful, orthodox young men were always willing to be priests, they just weren't being allowed to study in many Diocese.
As far as the "North American Church" is concerned, the Libs can go pound sand or start their own church, the "Church of What's Happenin Now", because it's clear they're not interested in being faithful to the Roman Catholic Church.
Darn, I screwed up a picture and posted one twice. The one about Mark and minorities was he and Sammy Sosa.
Well, yes. But being married more than once wouldn't exclude a person, the way I look at it, especially if he's not currently married. The Church would simply conclude that one or both of the "marriages" was invalid, and the whole thing not relevant to the Papacy.
If carrying on outside a legitimate Catholic marriage excluded a person from being Pope, think of all the Pope's we wouldn't have had ... Rodrigo Borgia (Alexander VI) for instance ...
Bump that! I just learned that a very nice young man from our parish, for whom my 14-year-old daughter has a (perfectly chaste) admiration, is going to seminary this fall. We're hoping she'll decide she likes his younger brother, in about 6 years :-).
We don't want a doped up baseball player whose records will eventually have an * that says, essentially, "This player used steroids during the unfortunate drug-use era in Baseball."
Nope. Has to be a priest.
I have rally missed the informed input of Father Guido Sarducci, Gossip columnist for the Vatican. Where is he when we need someone to shed a little light and humor on this happening
So be it. They will elect another JPII (only, MORE conservative..), and if American Catholics don't like it, T.S. The Church is not a democracy. If an American Catholic can't follow the rules, they should leave the Church. The real truth is, they already have.
Nope. Google "canon law pope election," or something like that. We researched it last summer when the topic came up with houseguests. Any Catholic male (which excludes, obviously, heretics, schismatics, or excommunicated, because they're not Catholic) can legally be elected Pope.
Mark McGuire would be a great name for a papal candidate, to be sure. But he's not even a padre, much less a cardinal. And I'm not sure he's ready to take the vow of chastity, because, as everybody knows...chicks dig the long ball.
Were some people born without the humor gene?
The next Pope is going to be a Socialist, just like the last Pope. All of Europe and most of the rest of the world is infected by that disease, and the Catholic Church is no exception.
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