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White smoke coming out from the chimney pretty much everyone here was looking at.

I don't really care about the Vatican, but the guy who's been chosen is going to have a serious influence over religious countries and their laws. Homosexuality, abortion, and various other things... we'll see.
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I'd like to see a non-Caucasian pope for a change...
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i want a satanist pope
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*Lorric looks into the future and changes his mind about getting involved*

 
Interesting, an Argentinian! "Franciscus"... the first, I guess - there was none listed on Wikipedia yet.

 

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First original name in quite a long time I think?
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First original name in quite a long time I think?
Actually, the short-lived John Paul I chose an original name, albeit a combination of two multiple-use names.

 
**** this. More than a 100 men to choose from, and they just HAD to choose Bergoglio.

 

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That's what the common thought was about Benedict too, and he wound up serving for a few more years than most expected, so you never know.

 

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**** this. More than a 100 men to choose from, and they just HAD to choose Bergoglio.

If you know something the rest of us don't, share with the class.


I'm happier with this choice than I would have been with a European. I don't expect the orthodoxy to change very much but they found somebody who actually will enforce it, rather than just the First World Problems parts of it. Y'know, social justice, house the homeless, clothe the needy, heal the sick.

Naming yourself after Saint Francis is a pretty powerful statement that you are here to change the way the Church is run. The Curia desperately needs its collective ass kicked, so here's hoping.
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Franciscus I! Bergoglio's choice proves that my first name is the best ever. :lol:

On a side note, my Facebook newsfeed is literally stormed by news and comments according to which Bergoglio used harsh words to define homosexuality, and more importantly, he was apparently involved in some bad things carried out by the Argentinian dictatorship decades ago. Not a good sign.
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**** this. More than a 100 men to choose from, and they just HAD to choose Bergoglio.

If you know something the rest of us don't, share with the class.


I'm happier with this choice than I would have been with a European. I don't expect the orthodoxy to change very much but they found somebody who actually will enforce it, rather than just the First World Problems parts of it. Y'know, social justice, house the homeless, clothe the needy, heal the sick.

Naming yourself after Saint Francis is a pretty powerful statement that you are here to change the way the Church is run. The Curia desperately needs its collective ass kicked, so here's hoping.
He's against same-sex marriage. He's been accused by many of collaborating with illegal actions and human right abuses during the last dictatorship. He's a very influential political figure against the current Argentine administration (and I like my state as separated from the church as possible). And he's very, very militant about all of this. And I don't like him. I don't like him at all.

 

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Hang on a sec. A pope who failed to stand up to a harsh dictatorship?

That's unpossible!
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He's against same-sex marriage.

You're assuming that there was an option which was for same-sex marriage here.

He's been accused by many of collaborating with illegal actions and human right abuses during the last dictatorship.

Without proof, presumably. Since, you know, he's not been arrested or fired. (And the next Hitler's Pope reference gets somebody beaten because what the hell was the Church supposed to do about Hitler anyways? Denouncing him just gets everybody shot, you work on the down low or you you don't work at all.)

He's a very influential political figure against the current Argentine administration (and I like my state as separated from the church as possible).

That strikes me as a good thing since very few people outside the country are fond of your current administration, so what's bad for you is good for the rest of us I guess.


He's also the guy who refused the perks of being Archbishop and rode the bus, and has a reputation for being against creature comforts of rank and believes in the mission of the Church to do all the sorts of things like feed the hungry and house the homeless and justice for all that have been kind of neglected in the arguments over gay marriage and Vatican Two and stuff like that.
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Time will tell if he'll be any good. He won't have it easy, that's for sure, but I hope he brings some much needed change to the Church.

 

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Oh nous an Argentinian Pope!

Now if the world burns it's gonna be all us :S

On the bright side, at least some Argentinians get broadband connection to God.
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Oh nous an Argentinian Pope!

Now if the world burns it's gonna be all us :S

On the bright side, at least some Argentinians get broadband connection to God.
Can we leech off your spiritual bandwidth then? :p

 

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That strikes me as a good thing since very few people outside the country are fond of your current administration, so what's bad for you is good for the rest of us I guess.
Oh! I see. This is just another of your "let's bash on Argentina because I've something personal against this guy" posts. We've been over this already. And here I was thinking about giving you a second chance. Disregarding you again.