An Apolytoner Pope in 2005

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by TCO
DaB wird schwer fur uns, als Ming deises thread findest. Er hat diese non-anglishe threads night so gern.

Ming ist deine Freund, und can die Gefalligkeit machen fur uns.

[TCO]

I werstehe nicht Gefalligkeit. Aber Ming is schon mein Freund. Er kann weil machen.

[Ted Striker]

Gefalligkeit auf Englisch is ein "favor."

Ich habe das Woerterbuch zu nachschlagen.

[Ted Striker]

ps Ming leibst du.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Dude, all the frontrunners would do that. What else would you bring to the table?

yep, that's a given for Pekka and I. I'm sure Fez would as well, but they might be different kind of orgies.

[Ted Striker]

Diss would keep it real and bring the Papacy back to its roots, ala Laz's Historical Filth Popes.

[Dis]

and I'd be the first pope to throw raves.

[Alexander's Horse]

would you provide party drugs?

[Dis]

of course, and I'll include Viagra

[Alexander's Horse]

for us old guys? bless you

[Ben Kenobi]

Actually, looking into it, there aren't any real specific qualifications for the Pope. He doesn't appear to have to be a priest. The only qualifications I've found listed, and they don't have any citation, are that he be at least 14, baptized and not a heretic or apostate.

This is the only pope not to have been a priest. Amazing story.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03479b.htm

[Ben Kenobi]

We should make Verto pope. That would make BK go apoplectic.

Unfortunately, I doubt he'd accept.

[Ecthy]

Pekka would destroy humanity.

Ming!

[molly bloom]

I'm throwing my mitre into the ring- after all, I was brought up Roman Catholic and have a cousin in the Irish church's hierarchy, so I can count on some Murphia influence in the Conclave.


I'd bring in a suitable sculptor, and have a new staue of David commissioned- modelled after Aiden Shaw or Thom Barron, as I feel Donatello's and Michelangelo's, whilst perfectly acceptable, are a bit on the diminutive side, genitally.


Then I'd sell off all the Vatican's loot, carefully, so as not to flood the market with Classical, Mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces. The Sistine Chapel would be used as a homeless shelter at night, and a part time soup kitchen and counselling centre for drug addicts and prostitutes.

The money raised from selling off the church silver would go towards funding real change and action on poverty in the Third World- and for family planning clinics and research into finding a cure or better treatment for H.I.V. and A.I.D.S. and malaria .


All bishops, archbishops and cardinals would have to surrender any jewellery and give up cars in favour of bicycles. All members of the Vatican hierarchy would have to work on a rota system, with every other year spent tending to the sick and poor.

Priests could get married, and women could become priests. No more kiddy fiddling, and no more hiding kiddy fiddlers and ex-Nazis and no more financial shenanigans with Masonic lodges or the Mafia. And no more alliances with Islamic despotic regimes in the U.N. on social issues relating to Africa.

I'd call myself- Pope NoChance in Hell, I .

[Alexander's Horse]

or you'd be poisoned like Jean Paul I