Pope Watch 2025

[Razgovory]

Technically, the Pope can now be elected President of the US.

[Sheilbh]

Oh, the Pope is the Antichrist?  Well that's a new one we've never heard before...

The unparalleled skill of Northern Irish unionists to win friends and influence people.

[crazy canuck]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

[Savonarola]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

You thought Josephus was:

[Sheilbh]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

I got to mass

I'd back anyone elected Pope - but do like what I've seen of this one so far.

[The Minsky Moment]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

Wrong Josephus

[Barrister]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

Josephus worked at a Jewish newspaper for years, so not an unreasonable assumption.

[Josephus]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

You're  not the only one. but no, I was the managing editor for the Canadian Jewish News, so that's a fair assumption.

[Josephus]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

You thought Josephus was:

Yes, people think that's my biography. It isn't 

[Sheilbh]

60 years as an American. 60! America ruins religion

I'm following the Peruvian press - "The Pope is Peruvian and he misses ceviche"

[HVC]

What's it the young people say now a days? Copium?

[mongers]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

You're  not the only one. but no, I was the managing editor for the Canadian Jewish News, so that's a fair assumption.

Well I knew about the newspaper career and your Maltese heritage, but hadn't bothered to make that assumption, so I'd not pigeon-holed you as anything, other than being 'progressive' Josephus. 

[crazy canuck]

Well, I, as possibly the only practising Catholic here (?) am proud of my new overlord. 

Not that it matters, but all this time I thought you were Jewish.

Wrong Josephus

In fairness I did not realize that Grumbler was unique in his longevity.

[Solmyr]

Well, at least according to the Prophecy of the Popes, Francis was Peter the Roman, so Rome's destruction should be imminent.

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, at least according to the Prophecy of the Popes, Francis was Peter the Roman, so Rome's destruction should be imminent.

I thought Benedict XVI was Petrus Romanus.