Feel free to add me to the list of those who won’tr be elected...and if elected I will not serve.
Why not Odilo Pedro Scherer?
Jerry Sandusky but only because he’s busy.
I am almost positive that I will not be pope.
I am also positive that Obama will believe he should have been pope, even though he is less qualified to be pope than me.
John Kerry’s probably kicking himself that he just took the Secretary of State job.
Thinking of the mainstream media makes me want to vomit. Their attacks on Christians in general, and Catholics in particular go on and on.
Up and down the tv networks, NPR, the major dailies, Catholics are openly despised.
And this is just the beginning...there will come a time in the not too distant future when churches will be attacked. Worshipers will have to practice in secret...I’m sure about this.
The networks are laying the ground.
Hillary is available these days.
I am going to put a marker on Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna.
He is young, and was editor of the Catechism published in 1992.
While I know God will handle it, it is fun to make a prediction.
Here is link to his profile on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Sch%C3%B6nborn
The current Prefect? 8)
It will most likely be a cardianal in either his 50’s or 60’s, no older Popes or transitions Popes.
Malcom Cardinal Ranjith of Sri Lanka is more likely than Tagle of Manilla.
And Arinze is possilbe,despite his age. Not likely, but possible. Would get “gotta elect a black pope” monkey off our backs while electing someone who’s as conservative as Benedict was, with a new vote before long, when they can return to electing Italians.
I would consider this Cardinal from Argentina a favorite — Leonardo Sandri.
Sandri, 69, left for Rome at 27 and never came back to stay in Argentina. Initially trained as a canon lawyer, he reached the No. 3 spot in the church’s hierarchy under Pope John Paul II, the zenith of a long career in the Vatican’s diplomatic service ranging from Africa to Mexico to Washington.
As substitute secretary of state for seven years, he essentially served as the pope’s chief of staff, running the central office at the heart of the Vatican bureaucracy known as the Curia.
Sandri remains a consummate Vatican insider. Benedict promoted him to cardinal and named him to the Vatican’s Supreme Tribunal, which provides the second-to-last word on church law, after the pope. Sandri also is one of very few cardinals in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the rule-making bastion Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) led for many years before becoming pope.
The Catholic faithful probably best remember him as the “voice of the pope” who delivered papal speeches when John Paul II became too infirm, and it was Sandri who announced the beloved pope’s death to the crowd in St. Peter’s Square, adding the memorable observation that “we all feel like orphans this evening.”
One strike against Sandri -— He has never led a congregation, this will be a disadvantage for cardinals who want the next pope to have pastoral experience.
Use guys don’t want the job? I’ll take it!
I think Ouellet is the most papabile of the lot.
He really does cover all the bases:
1) He’s been a parish priest
2) He’s been a front-lines missionary
3) He’s been a seminary professor
4) He’s been a bishop
5) He’s led a major curial department
No, he’s not African, Latino, Italian or Asian, but he’s probably the best ‘none of the above’ option.
I will only serve, IF:
1. I can NOT wear the red shoes. I do not want to look like Dorothy.
2. Popemobile must go. I want something manly.
3. Holy Water must go. Too germy. Research has said so...
4. I will not live in Rome. Dirty city. I prefer a water view.
These are my demands to the Cardinals. I will not budge.
/Lexx reference
I know i won,t be pope.
Sonja Henie’s out.
Isn't the next Pope supposed to be named Peter or Pedro or some variant?