Papabile: Papal predictions thread

[Martinus]

I think they would respond that they in fact love you, and just wish you would cease your sinful behavior.

Yeah well that's not very helpful, is it? Not to mention, their way of "ceasing" it is just doing it behind closed doors.

[Martinus]

Anyway no comments on the pictures I posted? Imo, the similarity is uncanny.

[Caliga]

Not to mention, their way of "ceasing" it is just doing it behind closed doors.

[Valmy]

Why can't the Popes and conservatives grow up and be pro gay eventually.

I guess it depends on how eventually we are talking about here

[Valmy]

Anyway no comments on the pictures I posted? Imo, the similarity is uncanny.

Now everytime I see the Pope I am going to think of Miss Saigon.

[Syt]

I'm pretty sure, though, Francis won't look near as good as JP2 in a batting cage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MZ0BbN3m7bU

[Martinus]

 

Well, he is a hearty highlander who run in some amateur skiing competitions when he was young, so no surprise he is good at it.

The question is: was he batting for the other team? 

[derspiess]

I'm pretty sure, though, Francis won't look near as good as JP2 in a batting cage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MZ0BbN3m7bU

If they had gotten someone from Venezuela or Dominican Republic, he'd be tearing it up in the batting cage.

[CountDeMoney]

Looks like he'd definitely get suckered by low sliders and curves.  Liked 'em high.

[Ed Anger]

Looks like he'd definitely get suckered by low sliders and curves.  Liked 'em high.

Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball.

[Martim Silva]

I think they would respond that they in fact love you, and just wish you would cease your sinful behavior.

Correct. That is precisely the Churche's stance. You can be gay, but as long as you regret your sin, there is no problem. 

And it is also why an 'openly gay priest' is such an offense: priests aren't supposed to be neither straight nor gay; they shouldn't feel attached to any pleasure of the flesh. Thus, a priest that says he's gay is, quite directly, betraying his compromises with the Church (that is why you don't see priests saying 'I'm straight' - that too, whould be a betrayal of the Church).

Anyway, the election of an Argentinian did not sit well AT ALL with the Brazilians. I can't accurately translate the entirety of this opinon article in the largest newspaper of São Paulo (too many - rather hilarious - slang words in the local dialects), but this says it all:

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/1246022-opiniao-agora-teremos-de-aguentar-o-maradona-o-messi-e-o-papa.shtml

[Starts with argentinian slang: Ueba [whohoo!] Habemos Tango!

What? An Argentinian Pope? That's personal against Brazilians! Conclave result: Argentina 1, Brazil 0. Dom Odilio [the Brazilian cardinal] fluked!

Now we have to put up with Maradona, Messi and the Pope! And I've said it several times: you can't have an argentinian pope, because argentinians think they're God. That's taking a double job!

In fact, the argentinian got demoted: from God to Pope. And I hear that the choice took long because he was an argentinian Pope [slang references to argentinians being slow]. AND he picked 'Francis' because like that he knew he'd be number one. He might as well have picked 'Diego the 1st'!

But it's a good thing an argentinian Pope, because like that he can speak with God on an equal footing. There's a photoshop going around the net with Maradona holding a sign saying: "I already knew that!". And in St. Peter's Square, all you saw was people tucking away the brazilian flag!

And I think that the Holy Ghost whispered Odilio, but since the old cooks are deaf, they heard Bergoglio!

But that's okay. Argentina may have a Pope, but we have Inri Cristo* and Edir Macedo**.

*: brazilian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
**: a brazilian televangelist.

[Grey Fox]

Yeah I've seen this reported by several sources.

Sigh. Why can't the Popes and conservatives grow up and be pro gay eventually.

It's possible, you just expect it to happen of men born in the 1930s. It's something that plagues most men of that generation not only of Popes.

[garbon]

(that is why you don't see priests saying 'I'm straight' - that too, whould be a betrayal of the Church).

When do you see any straight person saying "I'm straight"?

[garbon]

And thanks for that op-ed. So enlightening.

[Grey Fox]

I'm straight.