Posted on 02/11/2013 6:17:16 AM PST by NYer
Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals!
Prayers!
German media reports the brother says doctors advised against flying.
I feel overwhelming sadness I must pray
PETER THE ROMAN next?
When I first read the title, I thought it said “paypal”. I was like “paypal” through history??! Paypal must be older than I thought.... I’d better read this one.. heheh!
Exactly what I thought lol!
Its got to be both physically and mentally exhausting for anyone, let alone a man of that age.
So will the Pope, by then former Pope, be a member of the conclave? I seem to remember that there is an age limit though. Any canonical scholars out there?
So what kind of influence will he have in the process of choosing the next Pope?
I’m not Catholic but I do feel that these things do have an effect on me so I’m hoping for another firmly conservative Pope.
It was just reported that Benedict said he would t be part of the conclave
Wouldn’t
Me too.
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however, both Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul have been elevating conservatives to the ranks of bishops and cardinals, so the next Pope will be firmly conservative.
I believe there are voting, and non-voting members of the conclave. I think it might be age-bound...no voting members over the age of 80.
CC
October 25, 2012
Catholics in the Tank for Obama
by George Neumayr
During a campaign event in 2011, a feminist stopped Barack Obama in mid-speech to ask him if he supported free contraceptives. Obama replied: “Darn tootin’!”
According to Obama’s secularist philosophy, this invented right to free contraceptives trumps the First Amendment’s right to religious freedom. If religious employers object to financing the sex lives of their employees, well, too bad, says Obama. It is “not fair” to expect women who work for “large” Catholic hospitals and schools to pay for their own contraceptives, he told a reporter earlier this year.
According to the latest polling, this political high-wire act—seeking to win the Catholic vote while warring on Catholic institutions—is not impossible for Obama to pull off. Indeed, it looks like he is headed for an impressive finish. As CNN reports, “Obama leads opponent Mitt Romney among Catholic voters by 54% to 39%, according to the survey, conducted from September 12 to 16 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.”
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/catholics-in-the-tank-for-obama
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