Posted on 02/13/2013 10:49:33 AM PST by haffast
My money’s on Ouellet for a couple of reasons:
1) He’s not tainted by scandal
2) He’s had a varied career as missionary/parish priest/bishop/professor/curialist
3) He speak 5 languages fluently (His native French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portugese)
4) He’s thoroughly conservative/traditional
5) He’s never been seen as campaigning for the job
6) When there’s debate over whether the next pope will be African, Latino, European, or American he’s the most viable ‘None of the Above’ answer.
7) He’s the right age at 68. He could reign in good health for at least 10 years but not nearly as long as JPII’s 25+ years.
8) He’s healthy. He still likes to put on his skates and play hockey with his extended family when he visits home (Northern Quebec)
9) He’s a good balance between JPII on the charisma scale and BXVI on the intellectual scale.
10) He’s fearless in his promotion of a pro-life world view and has participated in and spoken at several March-for-Life type events outside Canada’s parliament, drawing fire from the usual separation of church and state crowd (yup - we’ve got ‘em here too)
The more I read about the guy, the more I think there’s no reason NOT to elect him.
Colombo would work out just fine. He'd really irritate the Cafeteria crowd I bet, and the fascist Media, too.
Cardinal Ouellet in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Xw4-CFzc5-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=la81wjZtGD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YEQeY7jQTdE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YgSJc5UVkV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hm1UfYdKEOU
Yes, it would not look good for a Pope to be named "Peter."
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I hope they have a better form of vote counting than we had in 2012.
I see what you did, there.
If it's political correctness and he's black, he'll take the nick Mofo I (First). If he's brown, the nick will be Jesus V (pronounced 'hay-sues. Fifth, to commemorate Cinquo de Mayo.)
Naw, if the next pope is a colored dude it'll be because the Church is growing in the colored world. Nothing to do with political correctness.
Orthodox, unashamedly pro-life and a hockey player - hard to ask for much more (anybody with any sense will think twice before they start to screw with somebody who knows how to wield a hockey stick).
Naw, if the next pope is a colored dude it’ll be because the Church is growing in the colored world. Nothing to do with political correctness.
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FRiend that IS political correctness.
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