The Pope has passed away.

[DiscoMan]

most of those people still aren't civilized enough to understand the enlightenment or modernity

Maybe so...
And I bet they don't have any liberals either!
And I'm not a red neck either you liberal anti-Catholic bigot! :evil:

[nrgbeat]

Is everybody on here on the rag this week? :roll: :roll:

[DiscoMan]

I'm not on the rag - I don't like liberals and I'm goddamned sick and tired of them thinking they can say anything they want about those of us own don't swallow that leftist bullshit. And the anti-Catholic bigotry exhibited by some of our left-wingers earlier on this board set me off. If they wanted to have an intelligent discussion of, or critiscm of JPII that's fine and legitimate. But right off they start with the pope is this and the Catholic church sucks and Catholics suck more because they believe all of that superstition etc etc. Their invective comes right out of the liberal playbook and I enjoy slappin' 'em upside the head with it.

[paul]

Discoman. You sound like a very angry individual. Let's take a deep breath shall we 8)

Now I'm a big time lib. Where is that playbook. I need to bone up on my anti-catholic bigotry and other talking points I've been unaware of 8)

[DiscoMan]

The liberal playbook. :P

[paul]

:lol:
I should realized! Kids, this is what happens to your brain when get too much FOX and The O'Reilly Factor!

[DiscoMan]

I also watch a lot of Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews! :lol:

[nrgbeat]

Wow, this sounds like something from a Hollywood B-Movie horror film.

This first papal election of the new millennium is the crowning glory in a papal history that survived enough bizarre twists to fill a dozen sequels to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code."

"In some past elections, people behaved very badly," the Rev. John O'Malley, a noted Catholic historian, said this week from his office at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Massachusetts. "Right up through John Paul II, popes have been trying to tie up the loose ends of the process."

One of the most bizarre loose ends was the "cadaver synod" after the election in 896 of the insanely vengeful Pope Stephen VI. He harbored so much anger at a predecessor, Pope Formosus, that he had his corpse exhumed.

Formosus' decomposing body was dressed in papal vestments, propped in a throne and put on trial for crimes against church law, including perjury. Unable to mount a defense, Formosus' ghastly remains were convicted. As punishment, the three fingers Formosus once used to bless the faithful were hacked from his right hand. His body was dragged away and thrown into the Tiber River.

[Anonymous]

Didn't Alec.R. do a concept album on this subject?...
If only...

[nrgbeat]

A new pope has been chosen.

It's a little early to tell, but I don't forsee any sweeping reforms occurring.

[DiscoMan]

It's a little early to tell, but I don't forsee any sweeping reforms occurring.

You are correct. There will be no "reforms".