Papabile: Papal predictions thread

[CountDeMoney]

Schönborn is well-know for zero tolerance for Child abuse, so he will be very bad news for homossexual priests.

Some people will never understand, g.

[Martinus]

This thread is amusing. Martim Silva is his usual retard self. Perhaps he was told all these things by the Idiotstan ambassador over a dinner.

[Martim Silva]

This thread is amusing. Martim Silva is his usual retard self. Perhaps he was told all these things by the Idiotstan ambassador over a dinner.

You're so busy thinking you're intelligent that you seem to be unaware of the news that came out in the last few weeks.

They started in the Italian press (the 'La Repubblica' and 'Corriere della Sera' newspapers), but I'm quoting the Guardian here so most posters can read them. According to them, the leaks that came out from the Vatican indicated that Benedict XVI decided to resign because he got a report from the senior cardinals about the problem that factions, especially one "united through sexual orientation" presented to the Church, and he believed himself too old to deal with such an issue.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/21/pope-retired-amid-gay-bishop-blackmail-inquiry

A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom – the report said – were being blackmailed by outsiders.

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The paper said the pope had taken the decision on 17 December that he was going to resign – the day he received a dossier compiled by three cardinals delegated to look into the so-called "Vatileaks" affair.

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The newspaper said the cardinals described a number of factions, including one whose members were "united by sexual orientation".

In an apparent quotation from the report, La Repubblica said some Vatican officials had been subject to "external influence" from laymen with whom they had links of a "worldly nature". The paper said this was a clear reference to blackmail.

It quoted a source "very close to those who wrote [the cardinal's report]" as saying: "Everything revolves around the non-observance of the sixth and seventh commandments."

The seventh enjoins against theft. The sixth forbids adultery, but is linked in Catholic doctrine to the proscribing of homosexual acts.

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La Repubblica's report was the latest in a string of claims that a gay network exists in the Vatican. In 2007 a senior official was suspended from the congregation, or department, for the priesthood, after he was filmed in a "sting" organised by an Italian television programme while apparently making sexual overtures to a younger man.

In 2010 a chorister was dismissed for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. A few months later a weekly news magazine used hidden cameras to record priests visiting gay clubs and bars and having sex.

The Vatican does not condemn homosexuals. But it teaches that gay sex is "intrinsically disordered". Pope Benedict has barred sexually active gay men from studying for the priesthood.

Shortly after these news, and before the Conclave, Benedict XVI had cardinal O'Brien resign, a prelate which recently admitted to "impropriate sexual conduct" with other males.

I can read the writing on the wall. You, on the other hand, are so preoccupied with calling others retards and idiots that you do not have time to analyse the situation 

[Martinus]

You just don't get it, do you?

[Grey Fox]

Why is this important Silva? Why is it important to direct a post on it to Martinus?

[Caliga]

All American Cardinals are over-eager to talk to the media, so they're out. Not to mention the Canadian one said being a Pope would be 'a nightmare'.

Isn't that the sort of thing they're supposed to say though?  You're supposed to pretend that you really, really don't want the job, from what I understand.  In the case of Ratzinger, it seems that he wasn't pretending after all.

[Liep]

It's white.

[Barrister]

It's white.

That's fast.

The conventional logic dictates that it is one of the front-runners then.

[Liep]

Some of those catholic chicks on Peter's Square are quite hot.

[Solmyr]

Elected on 13.3.13.

[Martinus]

Elected on 13.3.13.

Third day of the week too.

[Admiral Yi]

So which faction won, the homos or the straights? 

[Grey Fox]

So, JP3?

[Liep]

So which faction won, the homos or the straights? 

The primogenitures.

[The Larch]

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