"Popabile"

[KaiserSooner]

Here's a list of potential popes...

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005040220420002711809&dt=20050402204200&w=RTR&coview=

...hopefully they won't choose Josef Ratzinger.

[LosAngelesSooner]

I'm still holding out hope for Cardinal Mahoney. ;)

[proud gonzo]

Here's a list of potential popes...

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005040220420002711809&dt=20050402204200&w=RTR&coview=

...hopefully they won't choose Josef Ratzinger.

for a second i thought that said John Ratzenberger... i had this very amusing image of Cliff Clavin as the Pope

http://img194.exs.cx/img194/6996/cliffpope1iy.jpg

[Flagstaffsooner]

I like this dude.


GODFRIED DANNEELS (BELGIAN) BORN JUNE 4, 1933


http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a16/a16_wcfields.jpg

[Penguin]

I nominate Cardinal Law. He'll help bring on a "hands on" policy for the priesthood.

[GottaHavePride]

I want to see Cardinal Ignatius Glick become Pope.

http://www.shipbrook.com/karen/blog/images/buddychrist1.jpg

[49r]

I nominate Cardinal Law. He'll help bring on a "hands on" policy for the priesthood.
HEH! Veeeery hands on! :D

[MamaMia]

Pope John Paul II is the one who suggested most of the Popes on the big list of over 100 candidates. I just hope that our next Pope will change the churches position on the use of birth control.

[GottaHavePride]

Pope John Paul II is the one who suggested most of the Popes on the big list of over 100 candidates. I just hope that our next Pope will change the churches position on the use of birth control.
If it's someone from a developing nation (like the guy from Nigeria) I'd almost bet on it. Especially since they have an AIDS epidemic to worry about over there.

[jk the sooner fan]

most of the cardinals i saw on the "shortlist" are all in their 70's......might be a short reign

[GottaHavePride]

most of the cardinals i saw on the "shortlist" are all in their 70's......might be a short reign
And from what I've read, it probably won't be anyone on that the media is talking about. The Catholics know that high-profile people that want the job probably shouldn't have it. ;)

[JohnnyMack]

Pope John Paul II is the one who suggested most of the Popes on the big list of over 100 candidates. I just hope that our next Pope will change the churches position on the use of birth control.

I'd bet against it.

I see Pope John Paul III as being fairly status quo.

[Scott D]

If it's someone from a developing nation (like the guy from Nigeria) I'd almost bet on it. Especially since they have an AIDS epidemic to worry about over there.

Arinze is as conservative on those matters as JP II was.

[KaiserSooner]

Yeah, apparently the Nigerian dude is pretty close to Ratzinger on those things.

[KaiserSooner]

for a second i thought that said John Ratzenberger... i had this very amusing image of Cliff Clavin as the Pope

http://img194.exs.cx/img194/6996/cliffpope1iy.jpg
Heh. Habemus Papem...Pope Cliff I!

[BigRedJed]

What does Vegas say on these candidates?

[proud gonzo]

go check the sports book :D

[KaiserSooner]

Just keep your money away from Cliffie Claven though.

He's got some pretty powerful opponents among the Italian, Portuguese, and Latin American cardinals.

[KaiserSooner]

Sheesh, look at these papal names....Linus, Cletus, Sixtus.

Thank God there aren't any significant cardinals from Arkansas on the watch list. You know they're begging for a Pope Cletus II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes

Pope Sixtus would be pretty cool though.

[proud gonzo]

Pope Eugene! Or Pope Marcellus! http://www.aj.cz/img/smpulp5.jpg :D

[KaiserSooner]

I'm still holding out hope for Cardinal Mahoney. ;)
Actually, didn't Cardinal Mahoney and Frank Keating get into an argument about his (Keating's) Commitee's investigation into the sexual abuse scandals?

I seem to remember people blaming Mahoney for getting Keating off that committee.

[Scott D]

I'd prefer Cardinal McCarrick, but he's too old (75)

[KaiserSooner]

Can you imagine an American becoming pope?

It obviously won't happen, but the thought of an American taking the throne of anything is sorta weird.

[Scott D]

I'd expect it to be a distinct possibility within the next 100 years.

[SactoSooner]

Won't happen, unless America ceases to be a super power.

[StoopTroup]

Won't happen, unless America ceases to be a super power.
How much time do you think we have left?

[47straight]

Pope John Paul II is the one who suggested most of the Popes on the big list of over 100 candidates. I just hope that our next Pope will change the churches position on the use of birth control.

I don't think such things could be flipped on and off like a switch. The reasons against it given for the last 2,000 years don't disappear because of a whim... In addition to JP2's Theology of the Body and the Gospel of Life will probably be the framework for catholic moral theology for the next 100 years.

[47straight]

Actually, didn't Cardinal Mahoney and Frank Keating get into an argument about his (Keating's) Commitee's investigation into the sexual abuse scandals?

I seem to remember people blaming Mahoney for getting Keating off that committee.

I remember that he was involved... the dispute over the very hard line "zero tolerance" reached a head in non-abuse situations that Mahoney was worried about.

Those two guys are about as different as any I could imagine, I think.

[proud gonzo]

for a second i thought that said John Ratzenberger... i had this very amusing image of Cliff Clavin as the Pope

http://img194.exs.cx/img194/6996/cliffpope1iy.jpgwhat happened to my awesome fark?!??!? :(

[Blue]

Whatever happened to Penguin?

[proud gonzo]

I bet he stole my fark and ran away.