I hope you are all pleased with the choice - I was thinking how strange it must be for my Catholic friends to be waiting on the naming of a new Pope. In the past you were reeling from the news of losing your Pope and this time it wasn't a death which deemed a new leader to be named. So the situation is so different this time I assume.
Well this is only my second time around as John Paul II was pope for most of my life.
Defidently different this time.
But certainly an exciting day.
Well this conclave was only my second time around, as John Paul II was pope for most of my life. And I was too young to remember the conclave that produced him or John Paul I.
Defidently different this time.
But certainly an exciting day.
I think it is a much better transition-perhaps it should be done that way more often-sort of like term limits...
The media and the rest of the left really don’t believe that there are absolute, unchamgeable beliefs. So they always hold out hope that suddenly tje church will approve of abortion and birth control and ordain women.
They dont get “not gonna happen ever.”
As for Jesuits, they were the intellectual force of the church, but, like many other things became corrupted in the 60s.