[sharktrager]

"If you're from the Third World, you're concerned with people who are starving and suffering from the negative impact of globalization of the economy. You'll want a pope who will speak out for social justice, forgiveness of Third World debt and be willing to stand up to the American superpower."

I am wondering where the Bible addresses these as being the primary areas of concern for religious leaders.

[concerned about politics]

The liberal press will chose one and make him appear as Christ returning to earth to save all man kind.
I hope the Church ignores them like the American people do during a presidential election.

[THX 1138]

NPR babbles on about how important "social justice" will be for the next man who is Pope, then lists a bunch of guys who largely agree with John Paul II.

Idiots...

[Jalapeno]

This NPR article is hilarious. the get a direct dig at Bush...they imply about how considerate we need to be of radical Islamist, they state the majority of the world hates the US.

Then they list several names posted in the AP story, but left out the AP's tag line which was:

One only has to recall that after two days and eight rounds of voting 26 years ago, the name of Karol Wojtyla — never mentioned as a serious candidate — was announced to the crowd in St. Peter's Square. Many there were baffled.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/pope/3115811

[jocon307]

You know, thanks for posting this as a prime example of stupid analysis.

John Kerry for pope, Francois I, let's vote for him before we vote against him.

Etc.

[Echo Talon]

I bet the next pope will be from South America.

[Aussie Dasher]

PELL for POPE!!

Put an Aussie in the Vatican!

[Daisy4]

Since when is the pope suppose to be a social/political science major/ leader? I always thought he was suppose to be a spiritual leader of catholics? None of these fit the biblical credentials as far as I can see. Where does the Gospel fit into the picture?

[kennedy]

I remember when John Paul II was selected. He wasn't on any list of possible picks that I ever saw. I'm betting that no one on this or any other published list will get picked.

[delacoert]

"Each cardinal is thinking, how will this candidate go over in my diocese?" Reese says.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a single one of them is asking himself what God's will is. None of them are asking God for wisdom and direction. Narry a supplication is whispered in prayer to the Almighty.

Reese is such a spiritual giant.

[Cronos]

I pray it would be Arinze or Ivan Dias is thus cosmopolitan and fluent in world affairs. But he is also conservative -- shunning, for example, the theology of religious pluralism so common in India. He takes a conservative line on abortion, has called homosexuality a disease of the soul.

[Castro]

My prediction for the papacy: Jose da Cruz Policarpo.

Who for those Malachy subscribers graduated from the Olivais Seminary in Lisbon with a degree in Philosophy and Theology.