New pope?

[WitchyOoman]

It took 2000 years... but the Church has finally reached out to The New World for a Pope.
The Church has finally acknowledged that Latin America is the fastest growing Catholic population in the world... and that they have a full 40% of the world's Catholics already.
It's only right to elect a Pope from Latin America!

[WitchyOoman]

Long live the Holy Father, Pope Francis I!

[blugiant]

Our Holy Father is humble!
Asking the people to pray for him and bless him before he blesses them! Never heard of such before... nope, never!
Humble.

please xxxplain to mii y dem cawl da pope holy father wen imm iss da head aff da unholy catholic church


yess mii will pray fe imm cah imm aggoo need peeps prayers

[blugiant]

It took 2000 years... but the Church has finally reached out to The New World for a Pope.
The Church has finally acknowledged that Latin America is the fastest growing Catholic population in the world... and that they have a full 40% of the world's Catholics already.
It's only right to elect a Pope from Latin America!

tink pon diss moaslee oyinbo cardinal selected a pope, da son of two eyetalian immigrants. now dem spinninn dat dem reachinn out latin merikka bye selectinn wan roman oyinbo born itt da new wurld

wat dem moaslee oyinbo cardinal didd was selected da son aff two eyetallians immigrants ann celebratinn dat dem selected wan oyinbo fe lead da moaslee non oyinbo population aff latin merikka

[Emperah]

what a pampam


dahjah mussi glued to his screen now

yeh right

[Suesumba]

why do they have to be so old? and why is brother uppa tap wearing a purple frack?

[Peasie]

why do they have to be so old? and why is brother uppa tap wearing a purple frack?

Priests wear purple vestments during during Lent. That's not a photo of him as Pope.

[Suesumba]

thanks peasie.

[Emperah]

Long live the Holy Father, Pope Francis I!

1 stroke of a (lets call it a pen) and all of sudden de guy is HOLY?


COME OONNNNNNN

it's 2013 stap mek dese fools fool unno

[Wahalla]

What was his stance during the military dictatorship ?

Where does he stand on the Falkland Islands ?

What was his stance on Liberation theology ?

[Peasie]

What was his stance during the military dictatorship ?

Where does he stand on the Falkland Islands ?

What was his stance on Liberation theology ?

Bergoglio has slowed a bit with age and is feeling the effects of having a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager — two strikes against him at a time when many Vatican-watchers say the next pope should be relatively young and strong.

“But he's going to be very influential in the congress of cardinals, one of those who is most listened to,” Rubin said. ...

Bergoglio couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, or stop its president, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free contraception and artificial insemination. When Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone to “medieval times and the Inquisition.”
This kind of demonization is unfair, says Rubin, who wrote Bergoglio's authorized biography, “The Jesuit.”


“Is Bergoglio a progressive — a liberation theologist even? No. He's no Third World priest. Does he criticize the International Monetary Fund, and neoliberalism? Yes. Does he spend a great deal of time in the slums? Yes,” Rubin said.


Critics also accuse him of failing to stand up publicly against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-83, when victims and their relatives often brought firsthand accounts of torture, death and kidnappings to the priests he supervised as leader of the Jesuit order in Argentina.


Like other Jesuit intellectuals, Bergoglio has focused on social outreach. Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.


“In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage,” Bergoglio told his priests. “These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender, had the courage to carry it into the world, must wander from parish to parish so that it's baptized!”


Bergoglio compared this concept of Catholicism to the Pharisees of Christ's time: people who congratulate themselves while condemning others.


“Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit,” Bergoglio said.

From LA Times

[Gen]

Argentine Cardinal Named in Kidnap Lawsuit

April 17, 2005|From Associated Press




VATICAN CITY — A human rights lawyer has filed a criminal complaint against an Argentine cardinal mentioned as a possible contender to become pope, accusing him of involvement in the 1976 kidnappings of two priests. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's spokesman Saturday called the allegation "old slander."


The complaint filed in a court in the Argentine capital on Friday accused Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, of involvement in the abduction of two Jesuit priests by the military dictatorship, reported the newspaper Clarin. The complaint does not specify the nature of Bergoglio's alleged involvement.

Under Argentine law, an accusation can be filed with a very low threshold of evidence. A court then decides if there is cause to investigate and file charges. The accusations against Bergoglio, 68, are detailed in a recent book by Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky.


In May 1976, priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics were kidnapped by the navy. They surfaced five months later, drugged and seminude, in a field. At the time, Bergoglio was the superior in the Society of Jesus of Argentina.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/17/world/fg-cardinal17

[Gen]

Many Argentines remain angry over the church's acknowledged failure to openly confront a regime that was kidnapping and killing thousands of people as it sought to eliminate "subversive elements" in society.

It's one reason why more than two-thirds of Argentines describe themselves as Catholic, but fewer than 10 percent regularly attend mass.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/francis-first-pope-from-americas_n_2869332.html

[WitchyOoman]

What was his stance during the military dictatorship ?

Where does he stand on the Falkland Islands ?

What was his stance on Liberation theology ?

Which one? We're talking about Argentina!
No matter. It's irrelevant. Secular. Not a matter for the Church.

Secular. Not a matter for the Church.

I have absolutely no idea. I don't pretend to know much about liberation theology horsepuckey, BUT what I do know of it is that it is consistent with Catholic Catechism. The Church teaches what Jesus taught. Jesus basically taught socialism. What I understand about liberation theology is that it is the same sort of socialism. But I can't speak for the Holy Father. I do know that it's (liberation theology) not heretical.

NONE of these things matters one whit to the Cardinals who choose from amongst themselves when they elect a new Pope. All that matters to them is what kind of Cardinal the man was and is - from a Church stance, religion. Secular things are irrelevant. Catholicism is a religion based upon Jesus' teachings; it's not a social religion like some are.

[WitchyOoman]

1 stroke of a (lets call it a pen) and all of sudden de guy is HOLY?

No. The man is (and has been) holy... or he wouldn't have been elected Pope. You've gotten is bass-ackwards. lol