Hey fellas, I'm a Catholic!
Damn good one too.
Just sayin'...
Posted on 02/14/2013 2:28:15 PM PST by NYer
A married man ... hmmm ... any volunteers from among the catholic freepers?
too bad Obama’s not Catholic...
My understanding has always been that it is anyone the Holy Spirit moves the conclave to elect. Cardinals make the law after all.
Therefore Pope Ouchtantonehurt I is still a possibility!
Hey fellas, I'm a Catholic!
Damn good one too.
Just sayin'...
Hmmm ...
Problem here is we don't consecrate married men as bishops.
Otherwise, I'd kindly offer my services ...
Not sure if the world is ready for Pope Bustard, anyway.
That kinda excludes Slow Joe.
Nancy Pelosi is going to be consumed with Papal envy...
I’m leaning toward Cardinal Angelo Scola. I’m traditional.
I not married and a Catholic
I thereby nonimate myself for the office of Pope
Any freepers volunteer as my campaign manager.....?
Ineligibility never stopped him before, why should such a minor detail stop him now?
You must be racist. The only reason you challenge his elibility is because he’s black. If he were a white Muslim, you’d have no problem with him becoming pope.
Sonja Henie’s out.
Now that’s an idea whose time has come. Forget all that MSM boomletting for the first black African pope (never mind that we’ve had three of them already, 1500 years ago) and never mind that the guy they’re booming (Turkson) will never be elected because he’s openly campaigning.
Elect Biden and we’ll have the first idiot pope ever. Idiots deserve a chance too.
Married men were bishops, as Peters points out, in the early centuries, but had to abstain from marital relations. Perhaps that would rule you out.
The discipline today is mandatory unmarriedness (celibacy) but continence within marriage is the older discipline and it could be appealed to as precedent.
But it won’t. Would send the wrong signals to the “if only we had married priests” crowd.
“Answer, yes! Married men were ordained, even to the episcopate, in the ancient Church. Of course, they ceased living as married men upon reception of the diaconate (let alone priesthood and episcopate) but, cessation of conjugal living does not dissolve or annul one’s marriage, so, yes, a married man could be elected pope. That said, I think the odds are against that happening. :)”
OK, I’ll throw my at into the ring.
Full Disclosure: There will be more change. Holy water is out. It spreads germs and isn’t Biblical. Ditto, the costumes. I’m willing to wear a nice Italian suit - no tie. I won’t be living in Rome. Filthy city. Bad tax system in Italy too. Pope-mobile is out. I want something more rugged. Leading a church isn’t a reason to look goofy. God commands us to have sex within marriage. Expect me to fulfill that command. Regularly. Faithfully. With great joy. Easiest command to keep. This is just the beginning.
No, you’ve got to look at the Latin text of canon law, that’s what really governs. It says, “compos mentis” or something like that.
Can anyone deny that Slow Joe’s mind is full of the richest sort of compost imaginable?
It’ll be Malcom Cardinal Ranjith of Sri Lanka. You saw it here first.
But I could live with Scola or Ouellet.
Canon 332 § 1 of the 1983 Code doesn’t seem to require that one be Catholic
I put Scola at the top of my list, but Ouellet would be acceptable as well. There’s another that I would accept, but I can’t recall his name, except that he’s Italian.
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