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Papal Conclave - Place Your Bets!

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    #122
    grey_so_what
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    He's not the happiest looking man in the world is he?


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    #123
    calex71
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    ah here come the prayers, time for the mute button me thinks


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    #124
    Penn
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    Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Canada)
    grey_so_what wrote: »
    He's not the happiest looking man in the world is he?

    huge-mistake.gif


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    #125
    Obliq
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    John Waters (Craggier Island)
    johnmcdnl wrote: »
    RTE going on about this as well - anyone want to give me a TLDR summary of why it's interesting or different that he's a Jesuit.

    Nope. Can't think of anything except he'll probably be more honest about not accepting alternative points of view on life. Oh yes, and Jesuits have a fundamental dislike of being questioned. Of course, this man has just become infallible so he can relax now.


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    #126
    Bannasidhe
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    Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Canada)
    Dades wrote: »
    Oops - poll fail!

    Now... back to the Champions League :)

    Back to my Mexican chicken dish what is tonights experiment...:D


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    #127
    Links234
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    So the new pope is Argentinian... any jokes to be made there about the vatican having a nazi pope, now they've fled to Argentina?


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    #128
    Knasher
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    Cardinal Sean O'Malley (United States)
    robindch wrote: »
    WTF?

    Quote from his wikipedia page:
    He attended the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel, a seminary in San Miguel. Bergoglio attained the position of novice master there and became professor of theology. He is another homophobic bastard indeed.

    ^^
    Then gone on refresh. I sense a cover up.


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    #129
    Sulla Felix
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    johnmcdnl wrote: »

    RTE going on about this as well - anyone want to give me a TLDR summary of why it's interesting or different that he's a Jesuit.
    Theyre a mouthy lot . Have amongst other things at various stages disagreed with hardliners on women deacons, homosexuality, etc. some of their theologians espoused a certain moral relativism.
    Oh and they were involved in the gunpowder plot!


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    #130
    Obliq
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    John Waters (Craggier Island)
    Does everyone watching get a plenary indulgence? Or just the ones standing on the balcony with him?


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    #131
    Gordon
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    OK guys, let me be first to be frank, here.. oh no, actually he's the first Frank!


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    #132
    Bloodwing
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    Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)
    Gordon wrote: »
    OK guys, let me be first to be frank, here.. oh no, actually he's the first Frank!

    Here's your coat Gordon, the taxi should be here shortly.


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    #133
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Cardinal Beergoggles boggles the world.


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    #134
    Standman
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    Does he at least have a hilarious speech impediment?


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    #135
    wp_rathead
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    Dana (Norn Iron)
    when they said pope would be Argentinean, anyone else automatically picture Fr. Hernandez from Fr. Ted?
    22260


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    #136
    seamus
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    /checks to see if anyone else has made the joke yet...nope

    the feckin' Jesuits have it all tied up!


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    #137
    G3467
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭G3467


    More background information on the new pope:





    Frank's Wild Years (Tom Waits)



    Well Frank settled down in the Valley
    and hung his wild years
    on a nail that he drove through
    his wife's forehead
    he sold used office furniture
    out there on San Fernando Road
    and assumed a $30,000 loan
    at 15 1/4 % and put down payment
    on a little two bedroom place
    his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
    made good bloody marys
    kept her mouth shut most of the time
    had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
    that had some kind of skin disease
    and was totally blind. They had a
    thoroughly modern kitchen
    self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
    Frank drove a little sedan
    they were so happy

    One night Frank was on his way home
    from work, stopped at the liquor store,
    picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
    drank 'em in the car on his way
    to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
    gas in a can, drove home, doused
    everything in the house, torched it,
    parked across the street, laughing,
    watching it burn, all Halloween
    orange and chimney red then
    Frank put on a top forty station
    got on the Hollywood Freeway
    headed north
    Never could stand that dog


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    #138
    UDP
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    Cardinal Peter Turkson (Ghana)
    So how long before he is implicated in the child abuse scandals? Can't imagine many if any cardinals didn't have a hand in it (no pun intended) at some point during their careers.


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    #139
    Brian_Zeluz
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    4FSMya.jpg


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    #140
    PlainP
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    Dades wrote: »
    Oops - poll fail!

    Now... back to the Champions League :)

    Well being an atheist forum I didn't think it would go any other way...


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    #141
    achtungbarry
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    Dana (Norn Iron)
    Just heard that the most revered man in Argentina was elected pope.

    zkl8yf.jpg


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    #142
    Dades
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    Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)
    The way some people are talking about him you'd think he was going to sell off the family jewels to buy stuff for the poor. Which would be great as they're not short a few trinkets in the Vatican.

    Let's give this lad the benefit of the doubt at least until tomorrow!


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    #143
    Sarky
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    Cardinal Atari Jaguar (Yore Ma)
    Oh, I missed it? That'll teach ME to find scrubbing the shower more important than which crazy old man gets to wear the fancy dress.


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    #144
    Turtwig
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    I'm sorry but if the's Pope Argentinian it should be Messi. Maybe that's the church's cunning plan? Messi's Argentinian, if they could get him to meet and greet the new Pope they may have a way of reaching out to the masses?


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    #145
    Bannasidhe
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    Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Canada)
    Dades wrote: »

    Let's give this lad the benefit of the doubt at least until tomorrow!

    Let's not
    Bergoglio accuses same-sex marriage bill of 'being Satan's work to destroy God's plan'
    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/38707/bergoglio-accuses-samesex-marriage-bill-of-being-satans-work-to-destroy-gods-plan#.UUDRGMsmFt0.twitter


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    #146
    strobe
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    :/ the comedic potential of this Pope Francis is pretty disappointing after the Star Wars guy, as such, I'm hereby declaring an anagram off! Everyone grab a broom!

    Pope Francis huh? More like Penis of Crap!

    Ehh, zing...?


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    #147
    darjeeling
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    Dades wrote: »
    Let's give this lad the benefit of the doubt at least until tomorrow!

    The crowd came round to him at least, avoiding an embarrassing 'You're not my real Pope' moment.


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    #148
    Sarky
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    Cardinal Atari Jaguar (Yore Ma)
    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Let's not

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/38707/bergoglio-accuses-samesex-marriage-bill-of-being-satans-work-to-destroy-gods-plan#.UUDRGMsmFt0.twitter

    Yeah, let's not.
    But Bregman said Bergoglio's own statements proved church officials knew from early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens, and yet publicly endorsed the dictators. "The dictatorship could not have operated this way without this key support," she said.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57574147/jorge-bergoglio-who-is-the-new-pope


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    #149
    krudler
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    new Pope is Jesuit; swears vow of poverty, gets job where he sits on a gold throne in a palace all day. awesome.


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    #150
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    krudler wrote: »
    new Pope is Jesuit; swears vow of poverty, gets job where he sits on a gold throne in a palace all day. awesome.
    You're taking being a pope out of context.


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    #151
    Dades
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    Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)
    Pope Trivia: Apparantly he only has one lung. :pac:


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