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by mistermack » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:02 pm
Pappa wrote:
I looked into this yesterday and as far as I can tell it has no basis in fact. No mainstream newspaper outside Italy has covered the story either.
I'm sure that they wouldn't, without a cast-iron story.
No paper would want to risk a catholic backlash, if they got it wrong. Nobody would want that "scoop".
They would probably prefer to hang back, till someone else stuck their head up out of the trench.
Having said that, the blog said that Italian newspapers were reporting stuff, but he gave no links whatsoever, so it probably is an invention.
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by Thinking Aloud » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:18 pm
mistermack wrote:Pappa wrote:
I looked into this yesterday and as far as I can tell it has no basis in fact. No mainstream newspaper outside Italy has covered the story either.
I'm sure that they wouldn't, without a cast-iron story.
No paper would want to risk a catholic backlash, if they got it wrong. Nobody would want that "scoop".
They would probably prefer to hang back, till someone else stuck their head up out of the trench.
Having said that, the blog said that Italian newspapers were reporting stuff, but he gave no links whatsoever, so it probably is an invention.
And you can tell from the author of that particular webpage (that everyone seems to be copying) is
really reliable. Check out his 100,000 visions.
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by Animavore » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:24 pm
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by Animavore » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:27 pm
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by Animavore » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:28 pm
At least we can say, "The butler did it."
Wait! The Pope has a feckin butler?!
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by Callan » Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:35 pm
And on the eve of the race meeting, Cardinal Turkson leads the field at 11/4 with Archbishop Scola challenging strongly at 3/1, both of them hotly pursued by Cardinals Ouellet and Bertone, neck and neck at 6/1.
Cardinal O'Brien has been withdrawn by his stable.
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by klr » Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:12 pm
Callan wrote:And on the eve of the race meeting, Cardinal Turkson leads the field at 11/4 with Archbishop Scola challenging strongly at 3/1, both of them hotly pursued by Cardinals Ouellet and Bertone, neck and neck at 6/1.
Cardinal O'Brien has been withdrawn by his stable.
Nor will he be voting, which is possibly more important. Doubtless the bookies have factored this in.
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by Blind groper » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:30 pm
The ideal new pope would be black, and a woman.
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by klr » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:34 pm
Blind groper wrote:The ideal new pope would be black, and a woman.
The "ultimate outsider" description usually has lesbian tacked on as well.
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by Blind groper » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:17 pm
klr wrote:
The "ultimate outsider" description usually has lesbian tacked on as well.
The Catholic church would prefer 'asexual'.
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by klr » Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:12 am
Blind groper wrote:klr wrote:
The "ultimate outsider" description usually has lesbian tacked on as well.
The Catholic church would prefer 'asexual'.
... damn, I forgot "hunchback".
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by JimC » Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:30 am
There was an amusing SF story many years ago about the election of the first robot pope - I've forgotten the author...
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by Blind groper » Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:46 am
There was the story about the astronaut who saw God.
He came back to Earth beaming and with joy shining from every part of him. The news media asked him : "What is God like?"
"Well", said the astronaut. "For a start, She's black.............."
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by Faithfree » Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:32 pm
Apparently the Pope has delivered his final sermon-
"So long, and thanks for all the choir boys ..."Although it may look like a forum, this site is actually a crowd-sourced science project modelling the slow but inexorable heat death of the universe.
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by klr » Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:21 pm
Benedict XVI: 10 things about the Pope's retirement:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21585674
Apparently, he loves cats. Here's one of the papal moggies:
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