Conclave

[Japher]

The new pope should be selected ala Big Brother Reality TV show... Lock all the dudes who want to be pope in the Vatican, and then each week they elect someone out.

It would be kewl.

[Ecthy]

yeah, with cameras all over that St Marta College.

[Dis]

and we need a pope who will allow hot chicks into the priesthood. Of course they couldn't do that without abolishing the celibacy requirements.

I'm slightly joking, but isn't it about time to allow women to be something other than nuns? Equal rights for women. . women can molest little boys just as well as men can.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Dissident
and we need a pope who will allow hot chicks into the priesthood. Of course they couldn't do that without abolishing the celibacy requirements.

I'm slightly joking, but isn't it about time to allow women to be something other than nuns? Equal rights for women. .

It's called Anglicanism.

[Starchild]

The One True Church (for people who want to get divorced)

[Alexander's Horse]

wish me luck - I sent my cv to Rome

[Donegeal]

Not sure if this has been covered (as there are alot of posts in this thread and I'm too lazy to read them all), but what are the general feelings about how the Pope is elected? I mean, there are only 117 votes, but almost (or over) a billion Catholics. Where is the leftist liberal protests about how people don't have an equal voice? Where's the "I'm a Catholic, why don't I get a say in who my leader is?"?

If you ask me, the entire process of electing a new pope is very similar to Heinlien's theroy of World Government in his book Starship Troopers.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
wish me luck - I sent my cv to Rome

I'd vote for you.

[Boris Godunov]

The NY Post reported that Ratzinger has a Nazi past. Turns out he joined the Hitler Youth at 14 in 1941 and was an anti-aircraft gunner. Then he was actually a guard at a slave-operated factory in Hungary.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The NY Post reported that Ratzinger has a Nazi past. Turns out he joined the Hitler Youth at 14 in 1941 and was an anti-aircraft gunner. Then he was actually a guard at a slave-operated factory in Hungary.

Oops!

[Timexwatch]

Didn't he end up deserting from the army, though?

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The NY Post reported that Ratzinger has a Nazi past. Turns out he joined the Hitler Youth at 14 in 1941 and was an anti-aircraft gunner. Then he was actually a guard at a slave-operated factory in Hungary.

I don't particularily like Ratzinger, but most of that is certainly distgusting mud throwing:

Joining the Hitler Youth at such an age can hardly be used as evidence of a "Nazi past". Group pressure, for once, was an important motive to join. Or zealot teachers pushing pupils to join. Come on, at the age of 14!
Anti-aircraft gunner - what an a#$§ could possibly do this? The alternative to military service back then was desertion. While such an act is certainly heroic, not making the step can hardly be seen as evidence for following nazi ideology...
The 3rd point is more serious if true, but then again, facts are often much more complicated than one line can make clear. What factory was that? What people were made guards there? How long did he do this? What was the duty of the guard? IMO, contrary to CCs (and not even there entirely), guards at such camps were not appointed according to their loyalty to the party.

Come back when the Post finds out that Ratzinger was member of the SS and took an active role in war crimes.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
wish me luck - I sent my cv to Rome

You're not getting my vote.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
Didn't he end up deserting from the army, though?

such an argument for instance...

[Odin]

If Ratzinger becomes Pope, the Anglicans and Lutherans better prepare for the influx of liberal catholics in Europe and the US converting; because Ratzinger is extremely conservative.