do away with equality law.

The Lindsey Graham of archbishops, if you will.

He is just one man. Pfffft

That in Catholic circles, the Pope is literally
"God on Earth", and speaks for God to all who will listen.


Source: Me, former Catholic. (It's complicated...)

And the MAGA crowd couldn't care any less about what the Pope says. His words don't fit into their realities.

If marriage is a religious institution, why do religions recognize m/f civil marriage?

The conclave of cardinals will take on the appearance of the gathering of magas at a klan rally. The radical conservative lunatics will see who can be the most oppressive of humanity. All in the name of God.

This pope has seemed to be the most Godly (or Jewish, like Jesus, if you wish.)
of my 65 year lifetime. It's almost like he is trying to forgive old transgressions,
(of the 2000 or so year history of the Catholics) and right wrongs. I personally think
that they saw the error of their ways, and that Pope Ben was canned. So, are the
radical conservatives really in charge anywhere but a few lost and backward
countries anymore? ( Like Hungary, India and Italy?)

We'll see

Pope Francis, moreover, has singlehandedly revived - albeit only somewhat - what was a dying Catholic Church.

This has especially been the case in Latin America, where the Church had been steadily losing the region's poor and working-class majority to Pentecostals and other holy rollers (many of them, Jim Jones-style con-men).

Francis couldn't reverse the trend outright - but he slowed it considerably.

Accordingly, the next Pope might well be another Latin American - possibly someone, like Francis, of Italian descent.

Italians, as you know, are still dominant among the high-ranking Curia - so they'll probably at least be able to insist on an Italian-speaking Pope.

But Benedict might in fact end up being the last European Pope for many years.

Ma - chi lo sa.



"Don't ask-a me; I'm-a just-a the Pope."

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I think there will certainly be a number of surprises from this guy.

And then there is the prophecy from long ago about only one pope
after Benedict :

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/st-malachy-prophecy-pope-francis