BREAKING: As we wait and watch the balcony, who do you think will emerge as the new Pope?
Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan?
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office?
Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer?
Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary?
Or an American? Cardinal Sean O’Malley or Cardinal Timothy Dolan?
The new Pope is…. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina.
He takes the name “Francis I.”
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I don’t want the Canadian. They’ll be even more insufferable .
He’s French Canadian, so it would not have been so bad.
Dude…they are even worse. French Canada is the worst parts of France put in the worst part of America.
Obviously someone has never been to Quebec. At least in Paris I could claim I was a Canadian.
I think they should have done a TV show called Papal Idol instead. Then at least the masses could feel like they’re part of this, and the winner would matter just about as much.
Or maybe “Survivor: Sistine Chapel” would be more appropo?
You don’t get voted off, you get smoke blown up your chimney.
House of Cardinals ftw.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/watch-house-of-cardinals-the-spoof-we-all-knew-was,93302/
H/t for the link. Btw – Pope Francis is 76. “An hour from now, when this footage goes out to millions of people around the world, who’re they gonna see?”
The Argentine!
Is there anything Messi can’t do?
Drag his Argentine teammates to glory on the world stage?
We also would have accepted “Win without the Spanish National Team behind him.”
convince the Falkland Islands to “Go Argentine”™ again?
Pius XIII
First from outside Europe/Africa…also first Jesuit.
Or maybe it IS Francis I.
Well done PP….you scooped CNN (at least for me)!
A proud day for all Jorges, myself included.
so glad the world is being repopeulated, he seems like a popeular choice.
is this process where the term “holy smoke” comes from???
Yes.
Small point, but a serious question: Is it actually Pope “Francis I” or is it just Pope “Francis”?
Pope Frances I, in all legal and formal address. But just as Pope John Paul was refernced without the “II” in basic contexts, I’m sure he will be called Pope Francis too. Sort of like not using the “Govenor” when talking about Deal.
Thanks Ellynn. My grammar book seems to be missing the section on proper forms of ecclesiastical address.
Protocol says you can not give yourself a numerical in your name, that is only given if there is predecessor. However, the media will be ignorant of this and label him Francis I.
The Vatican has said the same thing as Ed. He will not be Francis I until the time there is a Francis II.
You’re correct about tradition, Ed. I thought I’d recently reading that John Paul I broke tradition and set precedent by adding the I himself.
Was he the Tea Party candidate?
He is a well known fiscal liberal, so no.
Social conservative, fiscal liberal…like most Democrats in Georgia who have switched to the GOP.
It’s all moot.
There is no god.
amen
tbh…I was pulling for Cardinal Bruiser
WASHINGTON—Ahead of the College of Cardinals’ upcoming conclave to select a new pope, a Gallup poll conducted this week found that 99 percent of the global population would prefer that the next head of the Roman Catholic Church be a large, slobbery hound dog with big, saggy jowls. “When presented with a variety of options, respondents across all demographics were nearly unanimous in voicing their preference that Vatican ceremonies, including Easter and Christmas masses, be presided over by a droopy-eyed basset hound with a big, tall pope hat sitting atop his floppy ol’ ears,” said pollster Diane Warnell, who noted that well over 9 out of 10 of those surveyed, including Catholics, expressed a strong desire to see a ceremonially clad dog pontiff roll around on his back in St. Peter’s Basilica, bark to a large crowd of worshippers from a Vatican balcony, or place his front paws up on a table and steal a ham sandwich right off of someone’s plate. “The remaining 1 percent of respondents, however, said they would be open to a hound dog pope if the big guy tuckered himself out after a day of sniffing and chasing and took a doggy nap right there on the altar.” According to numerous reports and allegations, the only hound dog in contention for pope, Cardinal Bruiser, is believed to have sniffed the genitals of at least 32 minors.
A bit off the charts for PP
Since the new pope is a 76 year-old Jesuit I’m thinking Francis will not be likely to lighten up.
@Rick Day:
Why do you hate people?
This is why Rick Day is so grumpy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE0nenGeW5A
Why is he still able to post on PP? The Last Democrat in Georgia gets a front page post about how bad he is, but Rick gets to continue to post this crap.
From LifeSiteNews:
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is known to LifeSiteNews readers as a valiant defender of life and family.
In terms of homosexual ‘marriage’, Cardinal Bergoglio fought valiantly to have the law in Argentina continue to protect the traditional family.
In July 2009, he called on the priests of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires to bring the faithful to an upcoming protest against homosexual “marriage.”
“Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God,” wrote Cardinal Bergoglio in a letter sent to the monasteries of Buenos Aires. “We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”
To the clergy of the parishes, Bergoglio requested that all of them read from the pulpits a declaration defending the true definition and understanding of marriage.
“The Argentinean people will have to confront, in the coming weeks, a situation whose result could gravely injure the family. We are speaking of a bill regarding marriage between people of the same sex,” a bill that calls into question “the identity, and the survival of the family: father, mother, and children.”
The latter, warns Bergoglio, might also be threatened by homosexual adoption, which would be a true form of discrimination.
The country now needs “the special assistance of the Holy Spirit, to place the light of truth in the middle of the darkness of error, to defend us against the enchantment of so many sophistries with which they seek to justify this bill,” he wrote.
At the same time, in a story that is being much-repeated today, Pope Francis demonstrated his compassion when he visited a hospice on Holy Thursday where he kissed and washed the feet of 12 patients suffering from AIDS, a disease that is often associated with homosexuality.
I would have loved to see him emerge on the balcony singing….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Spy3Nd2D6w
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