Habemus Papam

[rareboy]

If you haven't seen it...watch it.

Kneel Before Hollywood’s Pope Season

Just as HBO readies itself for “The New Pope,” Netflix is preparing to release Fernando Meirelles’s “The Two Popes.”

www.vanityfair.com

 

[LeicsDom]

^ Particularly after he told Vance that he was wrong.

I believe he has been similarly scathing about the orange idiot

 

[LeicsDom]

I wouldn't criticize. That chimney has given a better service life than a modern cell phone will.

Plus there is no risk of network problems.

Just don't tell our Foreign Minister about the smoke signals. He thinks it is racist!

MP David Lammy apologises for BBC Pope race 'innuendo' claim

A Labour MP apologises for claiming the BBC made a 'silly innuendo about the race' of the next Pontiff.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[NotHardUp1]

Well that was quick.

The fourth ballot is really suprising. That's quicker than most juries take.

Even those of us who have zero relatives or ties to Catholicism welcome Leo. His elevation is a much needed counterpoint to the anti-Christ who has risen in our midst.

Non-extreme Americans will be looking for a sane voice when the big one comes, and even a far away prelate will be a welcome icon to help us focus on what we can be, rather than what we are de facto as long as Trump reigns.

 

[Thad1527]

I'm not at all Catholic. But I'm kinda pleased the new Pope knows a lot of what I know. He graduated from near-to-me Villanova University, and once worked at a near-to-me cemetery. And I'm familiar with Chicago's South Side.

I'm still waiting for women's ordination.

 

[unloadonme]

Just don't tell our Foreign Minister about the smoke signals. He thinks it is racist!

MP David Lammy apologises for BBC Pope race 'innuendo' claim

A Labour MP apologises for claiming the BBC made a 'silly innuendo about the race' of the next Pontiff.

www.bbc.co.uk

He's a national embarrassment.

 

[unloadonme]

I'm still waiting for women's ordination.

The Roman Catholic church will accept married male priests before it accepts women. Women priests will not happen during our lifetime.

 

[LeicsDom]

He's a national embarrassment.

You are far too kind about him

 

[NotHardUp1]

The Roman Catholic church will accept married male priests before it accepts women. Women priests will not happen during our lifetime.

If it does either, we will be living in the era the historians will refer to as The Great Schism.

 

[NotHardUp1]

He's a national embarrassment.

Boris Johnson must remember him in his prayers with gratitude.

 

[Kulindahr]

The Roman Catholic church will accept married male priests before it accepts women.

True, that. It would even accept eunuchs before women.

Women priests will not happen during our lifetime.

Not in the lifetime of this planet! It isn't a simple social issue, it's tied into their theology of the Incarnation.

Women as Deacons has a slender possibility, but they'd first need to redefine what a deacon is.

 

[Kulindahr]

If it does either, we will be living in the era the historians will refer to as The Great Schism.

The foundation for the first has already been established, though in such a way that they would have to marry before becoming priests and be not allowed to re-marry. There actually are married priests now, men who were ordained originally as (sufficiently catholic) Protestant clergy but converted and former Eastern Rite Catholics. Francis opened the door farther by establishing that such priests don't have to stay in place, plus the possibility that priests committed to a single community, e.g. a small rural parish, could be married (but no chance at being bishop, from what I "read between the lines").

That latter is interesting in that it's a small crack in the door to a different approach to the priesthood, one that goes back to ancient times before Rome consolidated its monarchial power, where every parish had multiple priests most of whom were selected from the congregation -- a sort of second order of priests who didn't get (couldn't be) arbitrarily reassigned as priests can be now. That was actually done in Rome something like fourteen to fifteen centuries ago, when not all priests had the same job description and more than one priest per parish was the rule.

 

[rareboy]

 

[NotHardUp1]

Great eyebrows

 

[rareboy]