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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/world/europe/cardinals-elect-new-pope.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/world/europe/cardinals-elect-new-pope.html?_r=0)
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VATICAN CITY — With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of rain-soaked faithful, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new pope from among their midst on Wednesday. The name of the new pope, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, by tradition would not be revealed until he appeared on a balcony on the front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
“Habemus papam!,” members of the crowd shouted in Latin, waving umbrellas and flags. “We have a pope!”
“It was like waiting for the birth of a baby, only better, " said a Roman man. A child sitting atop his father’s shoulders waved a crucifix.
The new pope inherits a church wrestling with an array of challenges that intensified during his predecessor, Benedict XVI — from a priest shortage and growing competition from evangelical churches in the Southern Hemisphere where most of the world’s Catholics live, to a sexual abuse crisis that has undermined the church’s moral authority in the West, to difficulties governing the Vatican itself.
Benedict abruptly ended his troubled eight-year papacy last month, announcing he was no longer up to the rigors of the job. He became the first pontiff in 598 years to resign. The 115 cardinals who are under the age of 80 and eligible to vote chose their new leader after two days of voting.
Before beginning the voting by secret ballot in the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday, in a cloistered meeting known as a conclave, the cardinals swore an oath of secrecy in Latin, a rite designed to protect deliberations from outside scrutiny — and to protect cardinals from earthly influence as they seek divine guidance.
The conclave followed more than a week of intense, broader discussions among the world’s cardinals where they discussed the problems facing the church and their criteria for its next leader.
“We spoke among ourselves in an exceptional and free way, with great truth, about the lights, but also about shadows in the current situation of the Catholic Church,” Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, a theologian known for his intellect and his pastoral touch, told reporters earlier this week.
“The pope’s election is something substantially different from a political election,” Cardinal Schönborn said, adding that the role was not “the chief executive of a multinational company, but the spiritual head of a community of believers.”
Indeed, Benedict was selected in 2005 as a caretaker after the momentous papacy of John Paul II, but the shy theologian appeared to show little inclination toward management. His papacy suffered from crises of communications — with Muslims, Jews and Anglicans — that, along with a sex abuse crisis that raged back to life in Europe in 2010, evolved into a crisis of governance.
Critics of Benedict’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said he had difficulties in running the Vatican and appeared more interested in the Vatican’s ties to Italy than to the rest of the world. The Vatican is deeply concerned about the fate of Christians in the war-torn Middle East.
The new pope will also inherit power struggles over the management of the Vatican bank, which must continue a process of meeting international transparency standards or risk being shut out of the mainstream international banking system. In one of his final acts as pope, Benedict appointed a German aristocrat, Ernst von Freyberg, as the bank’s new president.
He will have to help make the Vatican bureaucracy — often seen as a hornet’s nest of infighting Italians — work more efficiently for the good of the church. After years in which Benedict and John Paul helped consolidate more power at the top, many liberal Catholics also hope that the next pope will also give local bishops’ conferences more decision-making power to help respond to the needs of the faithful.
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10 bucks its the Nigerian.
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10 bucks its the Nigerian.
I was hoping it would be you: black, jewish, unemployed. Perfect cast for a rejuvenation.
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Great painting. Bacon= genius.
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Great painting. Bacon= genius.
Indeed! And I am the only one to think Catolisism is a weird freakshow?
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They finally went ahead and elected Lucifer?
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Indeed! And I am the only one to think Catolisism is a weird freakshow?
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No. All religions have a "freak" factor to them. Irrationality is necessary.
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Indeed! And I am the only one to think Catolisism is a weird freakshow?
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That would definitely put you in the minority. Maybe read the history of the church.
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That would definitely put you in the minority. Maybe read the history of the church.
I did:
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Nope another White paled skinned grandpa
actually is an Argentinian Pope
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That would definitely put you in the minority. Maybe read the history of the church.
Aren't you an idiot and a bigot (pretty much the same thing)? You can stay out of this.
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I did:
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Shame that's as far as you got.
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Shame that's as far as you got.
No, I got further than that. I got to the shameful treatment of Galileo Galilei and other scientists also.
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Indeed! And I am the only one to think Catolisism is a weird freakshow?
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2.1 Billion People do not agree with you
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No, I got further than that. I got to the shameful treatment of Galileo Galilei and other scientists also.
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Giordano Bruno to name one who was also persecuted.
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So you're judging over 2000 years of church history in one getbig thread? Have you ever thought what poor people would do without the cherity of the catholic church and other Christian institutes? How about more than what any government could even fathom.
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2.1 Billion People do not agree with you
The world is a strange place when 2.1 billion people follow a bunch of pedophile priests who wears childish robes and hats.
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Who is the new child molester leader?
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Why an old fart again?
As christianity is in a major crisis anyway, why don't they ever elect a modern, cool, younger pope for a change, dude in his 40s or something like that. Would def attract more people again.
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So you're judging over 2000 years of church history in one getbig thread? Have you ever thought what poor people would do without the cherity of the catholic church and other Christian institutes? How about more than what any government could even fathom.
The Catholic church has been a catastrophe for poor people due to the conservatism with regard to condoms and abortions.
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So you're judging over 2000 years of church history in one getbig thread? Have you ever thought what poor people would do without the cherity of the catholic church and other Christian institutes? How about more than what any government could even fathom.
And now, catholicism has brought poverty to an end? Other cultures deal with their poor, sometimes better than Catholic countries. You're an absurd little juicehead.
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Thank god it's not a black pope
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Nope another White paled skinned grandpa
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Clearly natural! ;D
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Thank god it's not a black pope
Don't worry, Stark. He's a closet nazi like all the others before.
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Pope Francis oh brother
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Clearly natural! ;D
Wider than Heath
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The Catholic church has been a catastrophe for poor people due to the conservatism with regard to condoms and abortions.
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No condoms and no abortions means more Catholics...
One thing I think the new Pope should institute is that male clergy can marry...now who they marry that is another thing.
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gayer than using smoke signals to communicate in 2013 ::)
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Why an old fart again?
As christianity is in a major crisis anyway, why don't they ever elect a modern, cool, younger pope for a change, dude in his 40s or something like that. Would def attract more people again.
The church was struggling with Latin America so they picked an argentine
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gayer than using smoke signals to communicate in 2013 ::)
Agree, A Thread on Getbig or A tweet would reach the masses more then white smoke
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Jorge Bergoglio
Bergoglio = oilgogreb = Oil go greedy... :o
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Jorge Bergoglio
Bergoglio = oilgogreb = Oil go greedy... :o
Gigolo Ber
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Pope Francis of peace ::)
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Why an old fart again?
As christianity is in a major crisis anyway, why don't they ever elect a modern, cool, younger pope for a change, dude in his 40s or something like that. Would def attract more people again.
because old farts dont last for ever (except of course Polish popes)
the thinking is that a young fellow would stay in the job too long and as frequently happens people resist change or chalange to their authority as they get older. As it traditionally was a job that never issued a P45 (until Benny bailed out) old age was a better guarantee of limiting the reign
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2.1 Billion People do not agree with you
Or was it 1,2 billion...
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The church was struggling with Latin America so they picked an argentine
How hard and fast would you hit Argentina's current president?
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Was wondering where Benz went
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The End.
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The world is a strange place when 2.1 billion people follow a bunch of pedophile priests who wears childish robes and hats.
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i like the hats
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because old farts dont last for ever (except of course Polish popes) tthe thinking is that a young fellow would stay in the job too long and as frequently happens people resist change or chalange to their authority as they get older. As it traditionally was a job that never issued a P45 (until Benny bailed out) old age was a better guarantee of limiting the reign
Mugabe?
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Or was it 1,2 billion...
No its 2.1 billion
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why does the Pope were a Jew Hat Yamaka,
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Mugabe?
yes, the only head of state still in power since i first globe trotted decades ago.
He is nominally a Catholic (when it suits his policy) having been educated by Salesian Brothers north of Mutare.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/st-malachy-last-pope-prophecy-theologians-prediction-_n_2679662.html
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As christianity is in a major crisis anyway, why don't they ever elect a modern, cool, younger pope for a change, dude in his 40s or something like that. Would def attract more people again.
that is an interesting point, and woudl be the obvious choice is the goal of the Church was to be a popular business with lots of new customers.
If that was 100% their goal, then yes, they'd get some young handsome guy with great hair and a smile to "sell" or promote the Church.
They still base it on experience, wisdom, etc, it would seem, as most people chosen have 30 to 50 years of service under their belts. They put in a 40-year old handsome guy and he might not be able to lead like someone who is fmailiar with the last few decades of inter-church politics, experiences, etc.
So I guess what I'm saying is, choosing an old bald guy tells me they care more about preserving the church than about promoting the church, if that makes sense? Maybe they aren't that worried about 'recruiting' the i-phone using people who are okay with a lot of things.
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yes, the only head of state still in power since i first globe trotted decades ago.
He is nominally a Catholic (when it suits his policy) having been educated by Salesian Brothers north of Mutare.
He's bending over for the Chinese...
People like him will do any to stay in power. State Run Media, the whole 9.
His god is power. His devil is freedom.
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He's bending over for the Chinese...
perhaps but at least the Chinese are paying out unlike previous colonisers
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That would definitely put you in the minority. Maybe read the history of the church.
"More than a mere ecclesiastical history, it is a defense of Christianity written by a Bishop of the 4th century. Having lived through the persecution of Diocletian and been a confidant of the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine, Eusebius recounts the tumultuous history of the Church in all its tragedy and triumph."
it was written hundreds of years after Jesus died :-\
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The Catholic church has been a catastrophe for poor people due to the conservatism with regard to condoms and abortions.
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oh, you're a liberal. never mind trying to discuss commonsense....next.
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And now, catholicism has brought poverty to an end? Other cultures deal with their poor, sometimes better than Catholic countries. You're an absurd little juicehead.
Give me one quote were I said that Catholicism brought poverty to an end. Re-read what I said you delusional little euro.
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Thank god it's not a black pope
amen.
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Poverty? Those Vatican cats live like Pimps. $
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Mar 13, 2013
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a message from the Antipopeum on this whole situation
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That would definitely put you in the minority. Maybe read the history of the church.
I have, the Catholic church has been a plague on humanity. Dirty pedophiles
I do enjoy the history of the church, and admire them (in the same way I admire the Third Reich or Ancient Rome).
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They live in the luxury given by the poor
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amen.
What did Nostradamus say about a black Pope...
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They live in the luxury given by the poor
yes
with the emphasis on given rather than taken
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well they lie to the poor so that is taking from the poor I guess some dumb poor just give and some dumb poor get taken from
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underrated bodybuilder
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well they lie to the poor so that is taking from the poor I guess some dumb poor just give and some dumb poor get taken from
yes just like we must feel bad in our luxury, taken from other people, buying stuff produced by people stuck living and slaving away in factories with suicide nets 18 hours per day.
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never liked francois abs at all
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never liked francois abs at all
what about Phil Heaths 4-Pack
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Why an old fart again?
As christianity is in a major crisis anyway, why don't they ever elect a modern, cool, younger pope for a change, dude in his 40s or something like that. Would def attract more people again.
All the leaders of the church are ancient artifacts. Cardinals, who voted on the new pope, have the rule that if your over 80 you can't vote, well guess what, about half of them are over 80!
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hate phil abs too
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The Catholic church has been a catastrophe for poor people due to the conservatism with regard to condoms and abortions.
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go piss up a flag pole!
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A few points.
History is likely to look more favourably on Benedict XVI that JP II
This guy is a Jesuit and genuinely has concern for the poor - living as such himself
God knows what is round the corner but he is very highly thought of and apparently very humble. But so far things look promising.
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;D
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The world is a strange place when 2.1 billion people follow a bunch of pedophile priests who wears childish robes and hats.
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Who believe earth is 5000 years old and the dino's never existed.
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A massive amount of cocks were sucked behind those doors.
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We have a new pope, Let the paedophilia continue !!!!!!!!!
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No its 2.1 billion
It's not 2.1 billion, it's 1.2 billion, and those figures are from the Vatican. And what can one say about those figures, that their are a LOT of people who lack the ability to think critically, have no shame or dignity and are more than happy to support a mega wealthy elitist paedophilia ring for the sake of fitting in, SAD really.
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It's not 2.1 billion, it's 1.2 billion, and those figures are from the Vatican. And what can one say about those figures, that their are a LOT of people who lack the ability to think critically, have no shame or dignity and are more than happy to support a mega wealthy elitist paedophilia ring for the sake of fitting in, SAD really.
Lol 1.2 billion catholics is not impressive, when you consider rate at which phillipino/indians who practice are procreating. I'm sure these poor kids would not choose to join the paedochurch if they had the chance.
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It's not 2.1 billion, it's 1.2 billion, and those figures are from the Vatican. And what can one say about those figures, that their are a LOT of people who lack the ability to think critically, have no shame or dignity and are more than happy to support a mega wealthy elitist paedophilia ring for the sake of fitting in, SAD really.
Yes...I'm also willing to bet 1.2 billion people on earth sit in their own shit and live on pennies a day.
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