He looks a little like Blessed John XXIII
Posted on 04/02/2005 8:17:39 PM PST by sinkspur
Who Will Be the Next Pope? These 20 candidates have possibilties By John L. Allen Jr. Rome
Prognostication is a notoriously hazardous business, and the trash heaps of church history are littered with the carcasses of journalists who have tried to predict the next pope. Almost no one, for example, correctly anticipated that the archbishop of Kraków, Karol Wojtyla, would emerge from the second conclave of 1978 as Pope John Paul II.
In that spirit, the intent here is not to "predict" who will become the next pope, which is a futile exercise. Instead, the aim is to identify cardinals whose backgrounds, accomplishments, and personalities guarantee they will at least get a serious look as possible papal material. Doing so will illustrate the criteria cardinals typically employ in trying to size up who among their peers might be able to step into the "Shoes of the Fisherman."
Will the next pope be one of these 20 men? Perhaps. But all are certainly under consideration, and that by itself makes them worth a look.
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Gloria olivae could also refer to Portugal or Spain to name but 2 ... and increasingly I'm wondering about Portugal.
Husar is an Eastern Rite bishop; the odds of him knowing the thinking of the other 116 cardinals is nil.
The next Pope will be chosen from the 117 cardinals.
Forget this St. Malachy nonsense, will you?
He looks a little like Blessed John XXIII
Why? it's interesting. It doesn't make one gullible or silly to find it so, it merely is something else to consider as we go into the next few weeks. why are you bothered by it?
Cardinal Rigali did. I heard him on a BBC shortwave broadcast. The only inspiring thing I've heard out of a Cardinal's mouth since the Holy Father's departure from this world.
(sarcasm on)Feminists unite in writing and demanding a female feminist pope in order to deal with 65,000 years of evolutionary oppression by christian men.(sarcasm off)
The Patriarch of Venice is best qualified for that - Scola. But Ivan Cardinal Dias is very able on that count. Tettamanzi would be a total failure.
Bump for later reading, fascinating.
believe me there will be more than a little of that kind of stuff being said in the next few weeks. Last night on Fox, Shep asked some pentecostal bishop (WHY? i screamed at the tv, WHY ASK HIM?) what direction he thought the Church should/would go, and he did mention ordination of women, homosexuality etc. saying that the WORLD DEMANDED IT. this crap is going to drive me nuts before this is all over, asking people who have no way to know, nor any business speculating, on which way the Church will go.
Do the right thing. Make Mel Gibson the Pope.
Maybe not silly, but gullible, yes.
No, I do not thinkhe will not be connected to Opus Dei or any ecclesial movement. That would be seen as too partisan in my opinion. (The exception would be something like Opus Sanctorum Angelorum or the promotion of a particular devotion.)
that type of manure keeps making Shep Smith look like he is really light in the loafers.
He lightly pushes that left wing (slight pro homo) stuff just too much. He was the only one to report with any seriousness that baning civil unions would affect the cohabitation agreements of unmarried hetersexual (read normal) couples. That was legal absurdity but he reported it with a "straight" face.
GULLIBLE to find it interesting? i don't think so. one doesn't have to believe in it to be interested in seeing how it plays out.
Thank you for your excellent post on Vinko Cardinal Puljic
This Bishop of Israel intrigues me (if it is true that Bishops may be considered this time):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376505/posts?page=76#76
Jean-Baptist Gurion OSB Oliv (Israel) born at Oran (Algeria) 24 October 1934; professed 8 December 1962; solemn vows 12 December 1965; priest 29 June 1967; elected Abbot of St. Mary of the Resurrection 1999; received the abbatial blessing 11 July 1999; named Titular Bishop of Lydda and auxiliary of the Patriarch of Jerusalem for the pastoral care of Hebrew-speaking Catholics, 14 August 2003; consecrated 9 November 2003, at Kiryat Yearim, Israel, in the Church of Notre-Dame Arche d'Alliance, by Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, assisted by Cardinal Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray, and by Pietro Sambi, Titular Archbishop of Belcastro, Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.
The way you have frame this statement is one of the most offensive things you have ever posted.
well they are all pushing the areas of controversy. This AM on Fox and Friends they had a woman professor of theology on and they asked about the women ordination thing and i thought she gave an excellent response to that. I wish i could remember her name. i was very favorably impressed. she said that the priesthood is sacramental in nature, and was instituted by Jesus and he bestowed in upon men. She said that she sees it merely as a bid for power, bc 82% of the church's functions, jobs, employees, etc are women as it is. She pointed to the various nuns who head up universities, hospitals, and chanceries of diocese, that it isn't necessary to be a priest to serve the Church. she also said that at 5'3" she was not likely going to be tapped to play for the NBA, that not everyone is suited to every job. I agree and thought she did a great job.
You have an odd way of being offended, then.
You think it likely that Husar knows that cardinals are considering elevating one outside of the College of Cardinals to the Papacy? I don't; I'd be surprised if he even said this, as was related above. But the particular poster continues to post it.
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