Vatican Bracing for Papal Succession

Catholic World News ^ | 4/1/05

[Romulus]

Don't count on getting to see the Sistine chapel.

[rhetorica]

That's what I'm afraid of.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Brown knows even less about any form of Christianity than Clinton knows about abstinence. Ignore him.

[youngtory]

I just hope that whoever will become the next pope will be a pope who shares the same views as the current one, otherwise the Catholic Church will become a disaster. Personally, I don't trust the European nor North America cardinals, I think that it should be an African, Asian, Latino or a member of Oceania.

[Starter]

It's been a long week. I read the title as "Vatican Bracing for Paypal", and thought it was some new way to take donations. I really need some sleep.

[hummingbird]

Not to make anyone feel old here...

Too late, mike182d...but its a-okay if you are 182d!

But, seriously, the solemnity of the transition and the outpouring of worldwide grief will touch your soul whether you are Roman Catholic or not...assuming you have a spiritual bent, unlike a proclaimed atheist in my family and one in Mr. hummingbird's family. Pray for them (our relatives) and for His Holiness and for the Church.

[BlackElk]

Is there not an ellipsis (.....) between Gloria Olivae (Olivae is a genitive singular, hence the Golry of the Olive) and Petrus Romanus or Peter the Omega, suggesting an unknown number of intervening popes between the two?

[hummingbird]

I was in college and one of my professors predicted a new Polish pope...

If you are still in touch, see what he says now so we can check his level of accuracy! Demand sources if he goes two for two. Beg pardon if he has passed in the meantime.

[BlackElk]

In #27, Golry obviously = Glory

[Hoodlum91]

Not really. I was 4 and don't remember anything about it.

[Churchillspirit]

I understand your feelings concerning your daughter.

How sad that we have to think like this nowadays.

[Bahbah]

I wouldn't let anything Dan Brown writes concern me.

[edwinland]

I just hope that whoever will become the next pope will be a pope who shares the same views as the current one, otherwise the Catholic Church will become a disaster.

Don't worry ... the "views" of the Church aren't changing no matter who is elected Pope. We have a special guarantee on that point.

[Loyalist]

De Gloria Olivae/From the Glory of the Olives

Which means Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan. Is not the martini the glory of the olive?

[hummingbird]

My parents were on a tour of Italy and were in Milan (I believe) when a Spain/Germany soccer match was scheduled. It blew everyone's mind and not a few camcorder speakers. The guide decided to alter the schedule of the day's tour to get everyone out of the square and to a safer area. Imagine BRAVEHEART, Mother said. People painted in team colors and very, very, very boisterous....it was worth seeing she said but a little unnerving!

The events in Rome should, of course, be more respectful but there is the thought of terrorism....sad.

[Cicero]

Let's play with this a bit. A Benedictine pope? Any ideas who this could be? According to a Google search I just did, "The more than ninety year old Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer is actually now the only Benedictine Cardinal in the Sacred College." Of course the nomination need not go to a cardinal. It's doubtful that Mayer is papabile, unless he were to come up as a compromise candidate unlikely to live very long. That would bring us very quickly to the last pope in the prediction.

If not Mayer, can anyone think of a likely Benedictine candidate?

[hummingbird]

I had had a feeling for months that Terri would die, and the pope would follow shortly

And, recall the recent passing of Sister Lucia of Fatima.

[Aquinasfan]

I was 14 when the last one occurred and, not being raised Catholic, didn't really have a clue as to what was going on.

I was 18 and was a cluedog, even having been raised Catholic.

[Churchillspirit]

I have memories of this Pope - and his predecessor - being inaugurated? (sorry don't know the correct term for the ceremony).

Seem to recall the inductee being carried in a chair amid a sea of people - some of them extremely close to the Pope.

Prayers for the safety of all concerned.

[cajungirl]

I have a vague memory of a new pope in the fifties, and the smoke from the ballots coming out wrong. Everyone thought a pope had been elected due to the white smoke but then it turned black and everyone was confused.

Does anyone remember this?