Name That Pope

Yeah, but you know, politics makes strange bedfellows. By the way, Venezuela's president Maduro just said it was thanks to Chávez that the new pope was Latin American. Heh, they don't miss one chance...

Torgo said:

Yikes

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Jean Marie said:

More like, holy shit! How did he get away w/ it? Now, he's Pope?

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Referencing this, I suppose:

He recounts how the Argentine navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners.

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plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose might sound classier in Latin, but the message is the same.

Don said:

Referencing this, I suppose:

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose might sound classier in Latin, but the message is the same.

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That ain't Latin.

Xelebes said:

That ain't Latin.

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Habemus papam. Nihil nivo sub sole, then

Xelebes said:

That ain't Latin.

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Um, yeah, I know. That's why I said it might sound classier in Latin.

Don said:

Um, yeah, I know. That's why I said it might sound classier in Latin.

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That ain't German.

Don said:

Um, yeah, I know. That's why I said it might sound classier in Latin.

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The sentence got muddles up in translation, sorry.

Am I too late to toss in a "Lighten up, Francis" joke?

Yeah, guess I am.

Anyway, wait and see what happens. I don't expect to see him do much in the way of changing the status quo, relations with other religions, or views of marriage, homosexuality, and the other things the Catholic Church has traditionally stood for, or against, as the case may be.

But yeah, he's got that smile and handwave thing nailed down. Wait and see....

I was hoping that Papa Emeritus II of Ghost might sneak onto the ballot, but of course, that didn't happen.

10 Reasons Papa Emeritus II of Ghost B.C. Should Be Pope



Anyway, let's wait and see what happens. With Pope Francis, I mean. I'm pretty sure Papa Emeritus isn't getting anyway near the Vatican.

I don't know much about all things papal, but this was sort of adorable:

And it came to pass that the monitors of the jokesters went blue, and fonts thereon would no more poke fun at Jorje who became Francis, because so many giggle when pronouncing Hor-hay.

The unbelievers among them cried, "It was the Higgs boson, not G--" Zap!

regdog said:

I don't like that one of first official acts was greeting Cardinal Law. Law was directly responsible for thousands of children being molested over the decades by reassigning the molesters to new churches.

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The news heard is different, here it says the barred Cardinal Law from his presence. So far the only English-speaking newsource about it that I could find was the Daily Mail:

Despite the scandal which exploded to engulf the entire church, he was given an honorary position at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome.


Though now retired, the cardinal still enjoys a grace and favour apartment in the cathedral complex.
So hearing that the new Pope was offering prayers at the very same church, it seems he couldn’t resist a discreet peak.


But when Pope Francis recognised him, he immediately ordered that Law be removed, according to Italian media reports. He went on to command: ‘He is not to come to this church any more.’

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-turned-blind-eye-murderous-dictatorship.html

Though, taking account of the veracity of the Daily Mail...

Meet the new pope, same as the old pope...

maxmordon said:

Though, taking account of the veracity of the Daily Mail...

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Here's the original Italian newspaper report. Not that my Italian's good enough to make a judgment on it.

Reading the various stories on this, it looks like Cardinal Law was present at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore when the Pope went there. Law wanted to meet him, the Pope refused.

It's also possible that they did meet and Francis told him to GTFO.

Seems to me the early stories on this were not particularly...smart.