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Could Cardinal Joseph Tobin be the first Irish-American pope?
Irish Central ^ | March 7, 2021 | Niall O'Dowd

Posted on 03/07/2021 4:41:36 PM PST by ebb tide

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To: glorgau
Then he would be called Pope Sicola. ;-)

I used to joke that we needed a French cardinal named Paris (pronounced French-style, Paree) so he could become Pope Paris (potpourri), but yours is better...

21 posted on 03/07/2021 5:37:53 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He recalled how his grandmother, a native Irish speaker, spoke English, but always prayed in the language, because “she wasn’t quite sure that God understood English.” When his parents offered to pay for his grandma to go back to visit Ireland, she would always say, “All I knew there was poverty. You go back."

22 posted on 03/07/2021 5:56:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DrPretorius

Coming to Newark Archdiocese: A Different Kind of Cardinal ...
www.nytimes.com › 2016/12/22 ›Dec 22, 2016 — Joseph W. Tobin drives himself around, lifts weights in the morning and is ... Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin lifting weights this month during a workout in ... highest-ranking Catholic, he protected pedophile priests,” ...


23 posted on 03/07/2021 6:02:22 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Bonemaker

Another McCarrick.


24 posted on 03/07/2021 6:08:16 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: Bookshelf

It is tragic beyond belief to see what is happening in our country and throughout the world, and all of it is with the imprimatur of our apostate catholic church.


25 posted on 03/07/2021 6:11:20 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: ebb tide
I doubt any American will ever be chosen as pope. Probably a lot of cardinals would be against the idea of an American pope, plus Americans tend to be weak on foreign languages. Tobin may be fluent in Italian if he spent a long time in Rome but does he know French or German or Spanish? How good is his Latin? He's too young to remember much of the time when Mass was always said in Latin or to have memorized the Latin phrases altar boys had to say.

County Kerry residents are targeted by other Irish with the kind of jokes we encounter as "dumb blonde" or "Texas Aggie" jokes.

26 posted on 03/07/2021 6:15:39 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

*** He’s too young to remember much of the time when Mass was always said in Latin or to have memorized the Latin phrases altar boys had to say.***

Ahem, I’m not a Joe Tobin fan, but he was born in 1952. I was born in 1960 and remember the Latin Mass quite fondly. Though I wasn’t an altar boy (girls weren’t allowed as altar servers when I was little), I did *practice* pretending to be one with my brother so he could fulfill his duties.


27 posted on 03/07/2021 7:40:39 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: ebb tide

A couple Pope’s ago they were talking about another possible American as pope.

He was a second cousin of mine who I’d only met once or twice. Dead now.


28 posted on 03/07/2021 8:04:28 PM PST by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Verginius Rufus

We already have an American Pope (South American): Jorge the Jesuit.


29 posted on 03/07/2021 8:35:28 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I still have a feeling it’s going to be Cardinal Sarah.


30 posted on 03/07/2021 8:43:31 PM PST by sean_og (--... ...--)
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To: FamiliarFace
Sorry. I thought that the article said he was 58. It says he is 68 so you are right, he would remember the Latin Mass (and not have known through much of grade school that its days were numbered--he would have been about 10 when Vatican II began).

But I still doubt an American will be chosen as pope--that is, someone from the USA.

31 posted on 03/07/2021 8:59:46 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: ebb tide

Any comments by Tobin agout this ?

The Vatican under the command of Pope Francis was busy rebuking ownership of firearms for personal protection as well as decrying islamist evangelical to Catholic conversion to the cheers of Islamic follower plus suppressing followers of the pre Vatican 2 liturgy form including the latin mass. But when it comes to other forms of mono theistic beliefs such as the One World Abu Dhabi Movement. Francis refuses to say one word disclaiming and decrying what practice adherents of the Islam code Sharia not only claim, but truly believe that God has authorized them to any evil means using force or decption used to convert is justified as well as kill those who refuse to submit to their version of Gods will .


32 posted on 03/07/2021 10:07:34 PM PST by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: ebb tide

The RCC is becoming more like the Mafia.


33 posted on 03/08/2021 4:07:03 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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