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still says videotape
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This guy could do some good. He probably won't do anything that addresses the media's agenda for the Church but if he can make the right wing nuts live by the rules they want everyone else to they can cut back on hypocrisy.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Listening to NPR this morning, there are a lot of happy and excited people out there. I hope this guy does good. We'll see.
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Is that Andrew Dice Clay?
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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No, them's for real.
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
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The Un-Tuckian
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Location: South Central...KY that is
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Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Quote:
First the Italians consider him one of them. He speaks Italian without a foreign accent being that his family immigrated from Italy. Second, he is extremely old. Already has some health problems. A younger Pope might change and start instituting reforms. Third, at 76, he would not have energy, enthusiasm, or time to attack an entrenched and corrupt institution. Change is hard. Fourth, his beliefs coincide with the most conservatives. He is typically too old to want change. Fifth, he is mostly an outsider. Would not know where the ropes are to implement change. Too few votes happened for a reformist movement to take hold. I have little reason to believe this pope is what the church desperately needed. The conclave chose what was safe. Powers that be saw nothing to cause them to rethink their entrenched positions. Reformers had too little time to unite in opposition. |
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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New pope? Are you sure they didn't say Jew pope?
Yeah, that's a stretch.
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Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
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More facts from the conclave. 115 Cardinals voted. 75 of them live full time in Rome. How much say do outsiders (Reformists) have?
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