White smoke - Habemus Papam
I'm watching live from Rai Uno, we still don't know who it will bw. The thread in LBN is way too caustic for me, so I'm going to start a thread here instead.
CBHagman
(16,992 posts)...but we're still all waiting.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)I'm a rather devout and liturgically conservative Catholic, but I don't expect DU agree with me. I had hoped for some respect, tho', but I can understand the animosity. I hope the Church will accept homosexuality, and equal marriage, as well as contraception at least, in time, but women priests and married clergy is not important to me, nor is divorce.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Breaking precedent on name, and first from S. america (Argentine).
Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)so technically he is not the Black Pope, but I don't know if there has ever been a Jesuit Pope!
UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)God's blessings on you, Holy Father.
mykpart
(3,879 posts)St. Francis of Assisi or St. Francis Xavier?
CBHagman
(16,992 posts)Or someone else neither of us is thinking of?
(Channeling George Carlin doing his priest voice in Class Clown): "It's a mystery."
demosincebirth
(12,544 posts)I dare not go to LBN, at least for a week. I'll be lurking on Democrats for Progress in the time being.
mykpart
(3,879 posts)and Francis Xavier helped establish the Society of Jesus, maybe he meant him.
Completely forgot Francis Xavier.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)This is way cool! Best of all I am alive to see it! OK it was via TV, but I still got to watch history.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Does he receive ownership of the previous Pope's cat? ;