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Vatican Bracing for Papal Succession
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| 4/1/05
Posted on 04/01/2005 7:36:44 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: mike182d
It is kind of weird since they are so old when they start. But before John Paul I was Pope Paul, and he had been there since I was a little kid. I was very fond of him. Then JPI ==> 2 when I was in college. Now I'm in middle age and JPII is leaving. IF the next one goes twenty five years I could very well not see him go, or go out with him.
Eternity beckons.
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posted on
04/01/2005 8:46:49 AM PST
by
johnb838
(Blessed Are The Dead, Who Die In The Lord, For They Rest From Their Labors.)
To: paleocon patriarch
My bet is that the next Pope will be one of the younger Cardinals. My bet is that it will not. Cardinals typically will not follow one very long reign with another, though that's what they got with Leo XIII, who lived into his 90s.
My bet is the next Pope will be in his late 60s, and Italian.
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posted on
04/01/2005 8:47:08 AM PST
by
sinkspur
(I'm in the WPPFF)
To: Cicero
Who is the current Superior General of the Benedictines?
63
posted on
04/01/2005 8:48:22 AM PST
by
ELS
To: null and void
I thought it was the other way around. No pope gets the straw and the black smoke. A successful vote is signaled by the white smoke.
To: sinkspur
Perhaps, given the gravity of Malachy's prophecies, I should have said My Hope is that the next Pope will be one of the younger Cardinals, and have low cholesterol!
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posted on
04/01/2005 8:51:43 AM PST
by
paleocon patriarch
("Never attribute to a conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.")
To: rhetorica
You're probably right. My memory's a bit hazy (smokey?)
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posted on
04/01/2005 8:51:53 AM PST
by
null and void
(innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
To: rhetorica
I can never remember that.
67
posted on
04/01/2005 8:52:29 AM PST
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: marshmallow
??...
68
posted on
04/01/2005 8:52:44 AM PST
by
traumer
To: Non-Sequitur
You remember Paul the fourth? You ARE old.
:OD
69
posted on
04/01/2005 8:54:44 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Choose life.)
To: ELS
70
posted on
04/01/2005 8:56:38 AM PST
by
El Conservador
("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
To: Petronski
You remember Paul the fourth? You ARE old. Yeah, but I don't feel a day over 450.
To: Loyalist
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posted on
04/01/2005 8:57:31 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Choose life.)
To: All
Fox: Pope's condition has worsened yet again.
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posted on
04/01/2005 8:59:32 AM PST
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: paleocon patriarch
De Gloria Olivae/From the Glory of the Olives
Could be a Semitic (olive skin color) Pope. If you take a Pope from behind the Iron Curtain and he brings down Communism, what about a Pope from an Arab country to reach out and convert Muslims during the WoT?
74
posted on
04/01/2005 9:00:01 AM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: Types_with_Fist
Fox: Pope's breathing "very shallow. His blood pressure has dropped once again."
75
posted on
04/01/2005 9:01:07 AM PST
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: Types_with_Fist
Another thread says he has passed.
76
posted on
04/01/2005 9:03:04 AM PST
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: Types_with_Fist
That thread has been pulled.
77
posted on
04/01/2005 9:03:58 AM PST
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: All
A freindly reminder is that please no pope bashing. It is not the time nor place to bashing the pope..
78
posted on
04/01/2005 9:05:16 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: sinkspur
My bet is the next Pope will be in his late 60s, and Italian. Isn't there at least one cardinal who has never been publicly identified due to the possibility of persecution where he lives?
79
posted on
04/01/2005 9:06:25 AM PST
by
Tazlo
(I need to get a tagline)
To: hummingbird
Unfortunately, we're no longer in touch. He was one of the good ones. Got so disgusted with academia that he left it entirely.
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posted on
04/01/2005 9:20:57 AM PST
by
twigs
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