Not me. I declined nomination due to sanity and level-headedness. Atheism might have had a hand in my declination, too.
Geezus, you would've had my vote.
Well, we've narrowed it down to a man.
Pity, because a woman would've cleaned up the Vatican!
I predict that if the new pope is a progressive type, we will hear no end of whining from Coldstream.
Ever wonder why the gods allow men in dresses to make decisions for us?
Ever wonder why the gods allow men in dresses to make decisions for us?
My bet: it'll be one of 115 men, he will be very conservative and orthodox, he will wear red shoes and a pointy hat, the church will make no progress under his guidance on matters like homosexuality, ordination of women, married priests, contraception, divorce, and remarriage after divorce, and it will continue to lose membership. The church equates modernization with moral decay, as Coldstream often reminds us, because it knows that full modernization would render it largely irrelevant, so that's not going to happen. Nothing will change.
I doubt any of the old boys voting DO know better, the College of Cardinals has been carefully stacked by the last two Popes with very orthodox conservatives. The last Pope who could reasonably be called progressive was John XXIII, and that was 50 years ago.
Ironic that while browsing through this thread that one notices that it's mostly the atheists in this forum who seem to have an unatural facination (sic) with the Papacy
How dare they!