Posted on 04/10/2005 3:00:15 PM PDT by Liz
No argument from me.
I don't have a good feeling about most of the leading candidates. Most are either too old or too liberal.
The Holy Father was truly blessed, given his ability to hold this cantankerous grouping together. I understand he had to crack heads a lot as well. I can see why.
Regards, Ivan
Actually, It's "It", with a capital "I".
How stupid of a journalist is this that she uses "The Usual Suspects" as her cultural reference point? Helen Kennedy is a frickin' moron!
That line has been around FOREVER. Lord only knows who said it first, but it was popularized at LEAST as early as in Chesterton's writings.
If there is a dark horse, it would be Theodore Cardinal McCarrick (Archbishop of Washington D.C.). Yes, he is American, yes, he is way too liberal on many issues, but he is infinitely comfortable with the media, naturally well spoken in English, and being almost 75 means that he would not be Pope for more than 25 years. If he were selected as the next Pope, the liberal lamestream media in this country would just about have a mass orgasm, as they view McCarrick as 'their' kind of Cardinal, i.e., doesn't think the death penalty should be expanded to cover terrorists, is wishy-washy on denying Communion to pro-abortionists, oh he is as liberal as Pope John Paul II was conservative, but most importantly?
He's a nice guy, or at least he certainly comes across that way.
And that is all you need to be successful in front of that camera.
I thought I knew the major players, but I have never heard him spoken about. As you say, if he is lobbying for the job that won't help. There are a LOT of cardinals, and politicking can't get you more than a small bloc, while offending others.
I doubt they'll pick a socialist or communist. Anyone chosen is going to be better than some of the past popes (Benedict IX, Boniface VIII, Alexander VI, Leo X).
Of course----the truism that Satan's greatest lie is conning people into believing that he doesn't exist----is nothing new.
Jimmie Carter is going to monitor this election, isn't he?
Um, Your Eminence, that approach has been tried a number of times without success.
Be careful what you wish for. Read some of the speeches of Maradiaga of Honduras, Hummes of Brazil, Arinze of Nigeria. If any of these third-worlders are elected, you are going to be shamed if you have $100 in your bank account. Some of them are outright socialists.
Well, I'm not wishing for 'any' african or south american, but just saying that the right one would be a good thing.
Certainly it's not worth compromising values over, you care correct.
African Christians seem to have guts that the Western Christians surrendered.+
There are other Pope-maker on the liberal side, esp. Daneels of Belgium. But all in all, that side of things will in no way reach 77 votes.
So I think it almost certain that the next Pope will be conservative in terms of dogma and substance. So, now, what about style? I think the cardinals must have been deeply shaken by the scene before them at the funeral: hundreds of 1000 of young people eager to live out the faith, yearning for a charismatic figure like JPII. This makes me think that the next Pope will be younger, in his 60's. What Cardinal matches all of those elements?? [Maybe we should start a new thread?]
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