A Pope is a Pope is a Pope
The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will lock themselves into the Sistine Chapel in around 15 minutes and stay there until they've chosen a new pope.
When a candidate receives at least 77 votes, a two-thirds majority of cardinals, he'll be asked, "do you accept your canonical election as supreme pontiff?" If he replies "accepto," he becomes the pope and can immediately choose a new name.
As I understand the process, he can select anything -- Pope P. Diddy I, Pope Atrios I, and Pope Jurassic Park IV are not out of the question -- or simply keep his own first name. But for 15 centuries the new pope, like rappers, bloggers, and actors, has adopted a nom de pontiff.
In most cases, the name is chosen to give props to a past pope, as John Paul II did for John Paul I.
My money's on one of these six names:
- Benedict XVI
- Clement XV
- Innocent XIV
- Leo XIV
- Paul VII
- Pius XIII
I mean this literally. I registered all six of these as dot-com domain names earlier this month, which I feared was tacky -- to say nothing of soul-imperiling -- until I read about the vacant papal see stamp. Clearly I'm not the only baptized Catholic who gets geeked about this process.
I don't think there's any speculative potential in these domains, but I couldn't resist the chance to have some skin in the game. Someone else already has JohnPaulIII.Com and JohnXXIV.Com, but otherwise I put a chip down on every name of the past three centuries.
A Hungarian web site caught me doing this, accusing me of legöbb spekuláns a pápa.
I don't expect we'll get another John Paul -- the Italian saying "always follow a fat pope with a skinny pope" refers to cardinals' desire not to go too far in one direction. But I'm concerned about John.
The Irish betting site Paddy Power has Benedict as a 3-to-1 favorite, trailed by John Paul at 4-to-1, Pius at 6-to-1, and Peter at 8-to-1.
The last choice would lend itself to rapturous excitement among end-times believers -- there's a long belief that the last pope will call himself Peter II.
Update: A few news reports suggest that I might have popesquatted BenedictXVI.Com to sell it to pornographers. For the love of God, people, that's not going to happen. I will be running any plans I have for this domain by my own Catholic doctrinal enforcer, my never-miss-a-Sunday grandmother Rita.
Update to the Update: Florida Man Secured BenedictXVI.com Weeks Ago, Washington Post
Update III: Habemus Domini!
Comments
Great work with the website, good luck in the future!
wish i had thought of it, well done
I think it's good financial idea, but not moral... It stands on one line with bets on winner... What will you answer when God will ask you "Why did you wanted to make money on me?"
Given the new Pope a break! And give Rogers a break!
Well done! The Catholic Church simply had to think about it in advance like you did! But I don't judge them because even the Creator doesn't judge us. So nobody has a rigth to judge you!!! So do I believe, but I will also respect what others people think because they also have their own truth based on their own experiences and I have learned trrough life to respect their own experience. It doesn't mean I have to agree with them but at least I have to respect them. So do whathever please you with this site. My suggestion would be to give it back to Catholic Church and believe me LIFE will give it back to you an another way. This the Law of Return or the Law of Karma like other say, or the Law of Agriculture like I like to call it. It is more simple this way.
Best of WISDOM in your choice.
Roland Poitras.
Theif!
Give me MY name back before I register www.RodCadenhead.com
I cant believe this is happening.
Dam-it!!
Best wishes
Pope Benedict XVI
"the Creator doesn't judge us."
I always thought there was something called "Judgement Day", where the "Creator" would come and... err... judge us.
Maybe Im wrong, but I'd say that that counts as this "Creator" character you're talking about judging us.
Answer to this post
He is a pope - not "god". he is a real, living human being, not a ficticious bogey man to scare people into christian group-think.
Get out of here. Thats crazy talk.
Very very clever, I'm impressed. And good for you for choosing not to so something sleezy with the domain name.
I find it hard to believe that he registered all of those names with absolutely NO intent on making money from the endeavor. I will be curious to see what you do with this domain name in the future - I'm guessing you will be making money off of it.
In fact, aren't those Ads I see on this page already?!
Good thinking HTM.I did express myself maybe not the rigth way because I am am Frechn speaking from Quebec. I should have written probably that everything in Life has a price to be paid and that the only FREE cheese is in the trap. It is life that is taking care of this. A good book to read by an American fellow of your great country is named : Another body for my Soul from Michael C. Newton. I do recommend it greatly. But thank you for your wisdom HTM.
Bye. Roland.
hi good job... Use this site in good spirits to develop catholism across the world.. Simon , Madras, India
redirect it to a site that might open the eyes of these conserative catholics maybe a gay or womens rights site, a marxist site or a left wing catholic site that wants to help poor people not enslave them
Nicely done ;)
Cheers!
- PP
www.ratemyparty.com
I am not Catholic, but I read your story on CNN this evening. I live in Canada, and I am appalled at the American desire to capitalize on anything and everything. Sorry, the NORTH AMERICAN desire. I would think this was very interesting had you registered one domain, but you went through the list of pretty much all potential papal names and you got lucky. I think it would be in your best interest to use this site to better humanity. Use it to donate to some sort of Catholic charity, or use it to write about the history of the Catholic church. Cashing in on it would be very typical, and if you have any personality at all, you won't want your 15 minutes of internet media fame to be seen as typical.
Please don't sell the address to porn site ...
Amen
But then, if they offer a nice chunk of cash ...
...Go for it, milk it like every body else.
Give it to any of the redneck ignorant narrow minded fools who follow organised religion.
Get some independent thought happening people.
Sheep.
LOOK MUM I'M ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!
I must be really really really bored to actually be reading these posts and commenting. Get a life Max
HI Roger.
Congratulations on having the for sight about who would be the next POPE and registering the domain name.
I bet many thousands of people would have done the same if they knew who would have been the next POPE.
Now what to do with the domain name.
It is totaly up to you and im sure deep down you will do the right thing...
From what you have done so far setting up a public blog for everyone to share there point of view is a great idea.
I hope you make a killing from your google ad sense... maybe you should add an amazon feed to the side of your site also... selling bibles etc.
Now with all the money you are going to make I am sure you will use it for good things and to help others.
As other people above have said what ever you give with come back to you ten fold.
I would hold on to the domain for at least the next few years... And keep the blog running and maybe even adding a public forum to it..
Well best wishes and good luck.
Thanks
Tom
Damn right m8te ;-) this site will be full of porn and anal sex in a few days... no one will say no to a few thousand dollars...
Good tricks to go near the NEW POPE. Hope GOD fulfill your wises.
Alal
Sunderland to win the championship!
n1, dude :o)
fack you
I find all this so amusing....gj on getting the site...im sure this wont go away...sure eventually after a few weeks pepole will stop talking about it, but as far as i know its the most famous case of squatting (i mean it in a good way =P) and in my opinion, the most known event in the internet comunity since y2k
i dont think the pope will even care about the site..... personally, i laugh at the mental image of the pope surfing the web....as long as it doesnt redirects to "naughty nuns" or "loose 100 pounds with the vatican diet"
Maby u should put a few hundred ads and donate the cash to priests feeding hungry kids in africa, or to victims of priests in hungry OF kids.
Or maby we could ask god itself, this guy is trying to genetically engeneer a god out of fruit flies and algae (www.cnewmark.com)
..... if this works we might be looking at InsectusI as the new spiritual leader in the next decade..... god, the world we live in....y didnt nostradamus spoke of all theeese wacky things?
as for end of the days theory...i doubt hes the last pope or anti-pope, i think this pope will still be a good one...then the "black pope" will come...whether his name is cause of his evil nature or his skin color i dont know, but the point is we should be happy with this pope, whether he has a .com domain or not.
P.S I love the comment preview thingy....pretty cool stuff (sorry, webmaster thingy)
Haha you're a funny *&#@.
Visit Amsterdam soon.... WE HAVE LEGAL WEED. greetings from The Netherlands.
ps we love the new pope because he's german!!
AHHHHHHH HAHAH I CAN IMAGINE THE POPE SAYNG: "Im sorry...i cant visit the sixtine chappel to trow a mass there cause im still reading that damn movable type bible to make my weblog....omg im never gonna get my dot-com domain!!!!"
speak directly to your father in heaven
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Be careful! The FBI is watching you...
Aaaaahm, well done old man!
I'll trade you a "get out of hell free" card for my site.
Please?
Love,
Pope BenedictXVI
gotta give it to you... all those bill gates speeches have paid off!
the next pope will be a muslim
good job my friend. I appreciate you.
haway the lads....
show me the wat to aston villa,
man utd the scum and the boro!
PIG
My money was on Julio Arca II. Ah well.
FTM
Great work there, Roger. I love the game of registering domain names only to squat them. The big key here is that the name fell (or was placed by the hand of God) into the hands of someone who is not likely to exploit it or sell it to someone who doesn't deserve it.
What's worse, a porn site or a blogger's site. Man, I'm glad you have it. Watch out for ICANN though, they may have the power to release the site to the Vatican. Evil laws they make my friend, by even the intervention of the one God Almighty may not be able to help you if they decide to get involved.
Good work, you deserve everything coming to you.
The chords of this great song about the truth can be fount on the internet
de heideroosjes-listen to the pope
He goes to countries like Brazil
To tell the people everything about God's will
No sex before marriage, not even safe
Don't use condoms and walk straight to your grave
(CHORUS)
Listen to the Pope, you'll get aids (4x)
A little creep in a ghost outfit
Thinks he is Jesus but he's not a bit
Against everything that fits not in his head
He ain't stupid but his brains are death
Abuse the words of a guy called God
Explain words wrong to justify blood
Preaching about peace among all of us
But can't you see the crimes that religion does
A terrible disease called AIDS is killing more people
every day. As we all know you can be infected with the
AIDS virus by having unsafe sex (not using condoms). Well,
the Pope goes to poor third world countries to tell the people
overthere that God does not want them to use condoms.
Besides the problems with AIDS, those countries have often
to deal with overpopulation. To put it in another way: using
condoms is necessary for the third world people but because
most of the people believe the Pope, they are convinced
that using condoms is a sin. In reality the dangerous thoughts
of the Pope are a sin...
My money's on NialQuinnI.com when the 78 year old geezer croaks
PLEASE MR. CADENHEAD, ASK THE VATICAN THE HIGHEST PRICE YOU CAN GET FOR THIS SITE AND GIVE THE MONEY TO AN AFRICAN AIDS FOUNDATION TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF THE POPE POLICY. YOU'LL BE THE GREATEST HERO OF THE CENTURY!!!
THANX!
Gorro
Fantastic idea to do that!!
What about www.loulouI.com for Loulou the First, 1st female Pope in the History
Just think about it...
Sell the domain for loads of cash (that is, IF you get an offer) and donate that money to the AIDS Research or Human rights organizations which are independant from any sort of religious manipulation.
That way you can at least contribute to cancelling out some of the evil the vatican has spread.
BTW Ratzinger has been pope for quite some time already. Just because he was working with a half-dead polish pope puppet in front of him doesn't mean he hasn't been the most influential one to begin with.
And one last thought, if iconization is a SIN, then why do so many catholics iconize the pope?
person with a a brain and gorro, smart idea!
('A`)
Are you kidin?
Smart move, but I hope you are doing it for the right reasons.
Thats's a great idea....
Get the highest price from the vatican and donate that money to an African Anti-Aids Foundation.
respect!
I represent a major manufacturer of health products. We would like to use your domain name to promote our new range of novelty condoms. We were considering a special Papal edition to celebrate the election of the new pontificate.
I wonder if the Vatican is going to open their eyes to the merchandising opportunities now available to them.
www.benedictvmxvi.com
The vatican uses latin letters.
You did good :-)
Best Regards from germany
plenty of good things you can do with this site, but please don't give it to vatican for free... now all you need to figure out is how to make justice with the people who are messing around with the other 5+ billion lives around the world.
all the best.
Fuck pope. Who is pope. only God!!! pope kisses my cock...
Well, i think you are so celever to register this Domain before POP election!, Congratulation ;)
came from a german article writing about your new domain. good luck!
Congrats- That's the way you place your bets!
do something good with the site. give the proceeds to something that will benefit humankind. ie sell the site to a good cause.
cheers,
a
church has to keep up to date with technology. ;)
Dutchies congratulate you.
Free Eggs Benedict for everyone???
Hi, I read the article over at Spiegel Online. Guess it'll be up to you how you will use the domains. Posting ads for modestneeds.org ist a good start imho. I'm curious what you'd do if the Vatican really asks you to redirect the domain. regards,
Btw, in case someone's curious: the Japanese before me (Tachiyanagi) posted something along the lines "I congratulate from my heart to Benedict XVI, the birth of the new pope. Japan Tachiyanagi"
Interesting, as there's less than 1% Christians in Japan.
Dear Cadenhead'
You have done a grate job.Actually you saved Our POPE.he is being a conservative in thinking,some might misuse this name for pornographic sites or that sort of anything.Now Pope is Safe.Keep your belief.And it will save you.Don't be greedy.
thank you
Varghese
lalsneh@rediffmail.com
Hi Its far sightedness. Great! May God give you wisdeom to see its consequences too in times to come before you decide either way.
Since the Malachi prophecy holds up, I'll be the next Pope after the city of seven hills is turned to fire with a nuclear explosion in this age of terrorism. Gloria Olivae won't be pope for very long.
I'll make the world worship the Anti-Christ in the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
Just saw you on NBC's The Today Show. Rock on. :)
Good work man :-)
I watched you on Euronews, You roxx !!
this is really cool
You are FUNNI!
YOU WIN AT THE INTERNETS!!11!1
Sorry, but I doubt the Vatican would give you a papal hat just because you screwed around on the computer...
I just wanted to turn off italics!
Mr. Egghead:
How sad that you dare use the name of the Holy Father for your superfluous, selfish demands. Do you have any honor?
You are profiting using the name of the person who represents God in the world. Your website is already selling books that profit from sigleling out a few bad apples, what about the work of so many good priest and nuns all over the world? Oh, that doesn't sell as well right? Eventhough there are so many more good catholic priests that dedicate their lives to do good.
Wow, what a legacy for your family...
"My dad took advantage of the name of the new pope and request on national TV to get a free trip to Rome an a pope's hat." Isn't he "the opportunist of the century"?
Judas sold Jesus for 30 silver coins, I guess you domain request is just a new swing to an old custom...Are you aware what Jesus said would happen to Judas?
I live in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm praying for you.
May God open your understanding, so very soon you get it.
There are holy matters (like the name of the person representing God in earth) that should not be use and abuse especially for frivolous commercial means, like you have done it.
I am watching you on the Today Show right now, literally, and I just want to say - great idea!!! This is great!
Anne
Saw you on "Today" this morning. You ran rings around Katie and Matt!
Loved your snarkatude. Keep up the good work!
I doubt that you're going to hell for this or any reason. It was God's divine will that you buy the website and appear on at least one national news program!
Of course, I'm Jewish, so although I absolve you of any and all sins, you got to take it with a grain of salt.
Peace my child.
Pope Dude I
Mr. Cadenhead, I'm not Catholic but I am a very religious person. I totally disagree with the previous signer in that you are being anti-Catholic. The Pope is only a representative as is all Christians are suppose to be, "Let your so Shine that men may see thine good works", Matt. 5:14 - I believe. So I'm confused as to how others believe that you are disrespecting this MAN by using his name. Are some Hispanic parents degrading Christ by naming their sons Jesus? (Hay-sus) The degredation would be if they climend to be Christ or claimed to be the Pope.
Bien
This is hilarious!
While you are enjoying the limelight - how about posting a link about Stem Cell Research here, to encourage our new Pope to acknowledge the millions of faithful adherents who are still interested in helping people?
Embrace Stem Cell Research Pope Benedict XVI
Scott
"ass""hat"
Dont worry about your morality, if God were displeased, he would have conviceted never to have started it.
Interesting... Good luck with this!
Way to go, dude!
BENEDICT VMXVI is how the Vatican will state the popes actual name. They use LAtin numberals and not Roman. Check out the Vatican's site all! Saw you on the Today show...good luck and remember what happend to the Muslim who wrote the Satanic verses....you don't want 1.1 billion people to not like you...
Good for you. Enjoy your new publicity. I would hope your website can help people pull together and make our world a more peaceful place. God is Love.
Nada dado ao homem que no vemha do ceu.
S Jesus Santo.
Em Cristo,
Jaffar
congratulation!!!
I reserve benedictXVII.com
LOL
come on in my web site!!!
it's a verry goog web site!!!
Vince, xxx
Dear Rogers: I saw your segment on the Today Show this morning. To be honest with you, when I first heard what the segment was about, I thought: "Holy Cow!! Another Nut trying to make money on the selection of the new Pope!!"
But, after watching and listening to you I was relieved. I thought you were very, very funny and entertaining. I, especially, enjoyed your comments about your "requests"; i.e. "complete absolution"; a "week-end stay at the Vatican Hotel"; and, the "Mitre"!!
Well Done, Sir!! I understand you write "computer books"! Let me be the first to suggest (and I'm serious) you should write a "humorous book" on some subject!! You have a "great sense of humor"!!
P.S. I, as a "Member of the Clergy" was not offended in any way, and I don't think any others (Priests, Catholics, et al) should be either.
Peace,
Pastor John Campbell
jcmbl622@nauticom.net
CADENHEAD...THIS IS GOD. I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR VISITORS TO THIS WEBSITE TODAY.GET A SENSE OF HUMOR, MY CHILDREN. IT'S A WEBSITE. IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS EVEN IN MY TOP 10 LIST OF WORRIES WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY, YOU NEED TO NEED TO GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE A LITTLE MORE.CADENHEAD...I'VE TOLD RATZINGER TO COUGH UP A HAT. LET ME KNOW IF HE DOESN'T COME THROUGH.
The National Arbitration Forum announced Monday that a ruling has been issued in favor of Hillary Rodham Clinton regarding rights to the Internet domain name hillaryclinton.com.
Senator Clinton, represented by James Lamb of Ryan, Phillips, Utrecht and MacKinnon, filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on February 1, 2005 asserting legal rights to the Web address bearing her name.
Ruling in Senator Clinton's favor, National Arbitration Forum arbitrator Tyrus R. Atkinson, Jr. found that the other party, Michele Dinoia, registered the hillaryclinton.com domain name on October 22, 2001, and was using the disputed domain name to direct Internet users to a Web site that displays a generic search engine, links to commercial Web sites, and exposes users to pop-up ads and pay-per-click search results. In addition, the disputed domain name would bookmark itself as the visitor's homepage each time he or she opened his or her Internet browser.
The arbitrator found that Dinoia did not have legitimate rights to the Web address hillaryclinton.com and that the Web address was confusingly similar to Senator Clinton's trademark rights in her own name. The arbitrator also found that Dinoia was using hillaryclinton.com in bad faith by presumably profiting from the use of it.
The new pope's favorite Saint is St.Augustine !
Habemus papam
BenedictXVI
I'm very happy
www.prizee.com
visite my web site, you can win ...
and the bold shall be off!
Congratulations on your website
Watched your interview with Katie Couric this morning(actually the tail end of it).
Great idea on the modest needs website, organizing merchanise for the needy!!!!
Such as people with a older car to donate and want the item to actually go to an individual versus an organization for administration fees.
I also impressed with your insight to take the name of the new Pope and protect it from the negativity on the internet. Blessings for you!
May this website create a sense of Peace and goodness in humanity the world is seeking.
I will continue to follow your mission and read more information on this site.
God's Blessing to you!
M
I think your approach was clever and I appreciate your sense of humor in this all too serious world!
If you were Catholic, you would know that the Vatican has thier own e-mail ending, ie. John_PaulII@vatican.va.
So the new Pope's will probably be BenedictXVI@Vatican.va. Check with EWTN.COM if you want to make sure.
congratulations and my complimetns for the fact that you are www-worldnews.
good job.
best regards
Frank
Bravo Rogers. I just saw you on the Today Show. As a fellow Floridian, I am quite proud of you. I think the next step would be your own television show. You photograph nicely. You could be the next Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show"
Give this website to porn because Poles don't like Vatican, John Paul II and also we don't like old Benedict XVI.
dude you rule ;P
Pope Paul II was the greatest pope so the new pope will have alot of work to became the real "pope"
regarts from poland;)
DUDE! ask for a popemobile!
You done a great jobe so now you can sell this domain and give money for pour children from poland:)
best regards from polish nation
Mr. Cadenhead, you are a GENIUS!!! Congratulation!!!
Mario from Argentina
what happens to us when we die? Do we go to heaven or hell?
Way to go Roger. I like the whole website and keep up the good work. It doesn't matter what everyone else is saying you the man!
100 hits/min, well, you'll certinally make a bit out of your googleAds.
Also your blog listing all 500 comments on one page? classic :)
We the consumers are at a brink in life where we will move from the simple task at the market place to purchase supplies for home, office, motor home and others as you can imagine. We walk in the store and purchase these items and hand down cash or card for the items scanned using the barcode system. Seems pretty simple however none threatening to your privacy. However these times have come to an end. You might as well say it is at your door right now, but 90 percent of all consumers are non- aware of this fact. This reason is that if that percentage knew of this fact then the process would stop in its tracks because of what is behind the new movement and normal people would not want it to continue with this.
Wal-Mart the "super power" monster store found a new direction in how they will run their shop and being so they informed the supply chain around the world to make it so with all products purchased by Wal-Mart. Having mandated the supply chained complied and this set off the shot heard around the business world. All retail competitors had to follow the lead in order to compete. The mandate is that all items sold via Wal-Mart will have a Radio Frequency Identification chip or in simple terms RFID chip implanted in all products sold.What is an RFID?
What is RFID?Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items. There are several methods of identifying objects using RFID, but the most common is to store a serial number that identifies a product, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna (called an RFID transponder or an RFID tag).
AT this time as the Trojan horse at the door consequently there is nothing we can do about it because the gears are in motion; however, we need to learn everything we can about the RFID movement to maintain our privacy rights. You will not be able to "sell" any products without the RFID as you see in the barcode today. This RFID chip will go home with you and one day your home will be filled up with RFID chips. How would you feel if your home items were public knowledge from a certain book you have to what style and size under pants? You ask how that may become public awareness. Theoretically speaking if a van pulled out side your home with a RFID transponder, there is way for that person in the van to inventory your private life, and who knows what would take place once that knowledge is out. You ever heard the saying "keep and honest man honest: approach? Think about this!
Likewise, the RFID market has not stopped here and it will continue to transpire to greater levels beyond our comprehension. There is a RFID chip out now called the Verichip. This Verichip is imbedded in the human body. This Verichip may store your Visa Card, bank debit card and social security and other information that takes the place of your purse.
The perfect storm: In theory, what will become of the Verichip by means of how we see progress continue to unfold? Will the Verichip be mandate as the RFID chip is mandate for all products you buy or sell?
I will leave you with this "Buyer Beware"
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Most Excellent Score! Or is that Most High Excellency Score?
The Good cardinal was speaking out about the evils of the New World Order many years ago, I hope he will become a much larger burr in the NWO saddle now.
I'm not of the religious bent so to speak, but this guy looks like he might actually be one of the good guys.
I have been working for years to tie together the Knights of Malta, The Vatican, The Mafia and the CIA/Bush cartel. This could add an interesting chapter.
OK, you can read more ranting in my blog at Webmusher Blog
Just top! Congrats!
I saw you on the Today show this morning. Hilarious. Best interview ever. You are my hero!
Hey! I am sure God wont mind if yu make some cash off that domain name. Although, if i were you Id sell it to some good soul. peace and make bank off all these hits. Ill click on google add for you:)
It's good to see someone with a sense of humor and good intentions. There are way too many people on your website that hve serious personal issues and way too much time on their havds!
I'm sure that if you had not registered this website, someone else would have. At least it is not in bad hands.
Good Guess :-)
You were great on the Today show.
Let's hope God has a sense of humor.
;o)
In 1941 Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II)saw the Nazis arrest and take away his parish priests in Poland. Could one of those Nazis have been Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)? Probably not. The gestapo arrested Karol's priests while Joseph R. was regular army.
the today show was hilarious. That's what brought me to your site. I think asking for the hat was great. Way to go!
I saw you on the Today Show. You have a great sense of humor. You seem to be taking this all in stride. Good for you.
Saw the Today Show interview... you did great.
Just a thought on your list of requests - personally I would add some time with a Vatican theological scholar for some time to study and discuss religious issues with him. Regardless of your beliefs, how many times would you get the chance to have this kind of opportunity? If it could be done in with the air of a scholarly discussion, I think it would be fascinating.
Why not choose a pope whos 50 and not about to die
Hey Rogers!
I just reviewed almost all the comments on this page, and can't believe how many are repetitive!
Lots o' high fives from Poland, lots o' self-righteous people without a sense of humor telling you to give the name to the Pope. I mean, why would anybody even look for a "dot-com" for the pope in the first place?
And what's the deal with that weirdo Chris, who was a pope-squatter that actually seemed serious about the whole thing? Jeez buddy, get a life!
As I said earlier, you deserve a good 15 minutes of fame just for being snarky! I mean, why should you not be any less famous than that guy who did the tiny Christo gates thing in his house? Or that guy from New Jersey singing some Romanian pop song? Or that overweight kid doing the Star Wars dance?
One thing that puzzles me is why you would ENCOURAGE people to post their own web site links. I mean, there's so much cr*p on the internet, can't people find that stuff on their own? Why promote it?
O.K., I guess I've wasted too much time (and your space) on these rather pointless, self-serving comments. When your website stops getting hits, what are you going to do with all of these comments?
Pope Dude I
P.S. I do hope that you can score one of those big pointy hats, though. Those look kinda neat!
I vote you make the site like a Harper's Index style thing:
number of female priests: 0
number of people suffering because of the Catholic church's retarded stance on condoms: 250,394,556
number of priests who should be in jail for child molestation: can't keep track the number keeps growing
etc
etc
etc
Here's to one of the most out of date, out of touch, harmful and destructive organizations on the planet: the good ol' Catholic church.
yeah, the religion should disolve and start a fresh one with new ideas.
God bless the pope! Can we sell your domain on eBay?!?!
I, along with a gazillion other folks, just saw you on the Today Show, so glad you have humor and ethics, finally one of the good guys prevail. People using foul language at you are just mad they didn't have the idea and get this first. You should sell this site to the vatican, make some money, donate some of it, and enjoy yourself, you deserve it. By the way, if you do get to go to Italy, try to go to San Remo too, it's a beautiful place on the coast close to France. Congrats!!
Great interview on Today. You made me and I am sure many others laugh.
I think in addition to your "requests" you should include:
1) A red bathrobe when you stay in the vatican hotel.
2) Absolution on the towels that you may take as souvuneiers.
3) Dinner with Katie Couric.
4) Guest host the Tonight Show wearing your new hat.
Enjoy!!!!
Congratulations, Roger.
I was personally hoping for
Pope Rottweiler the First.
The Rottweiler has been described
as "a dependable, rugged, willing
worker, possessed of great intelligence
and a strong guarding instinct."
I have no response to this.
I think that Rogers is a very funny and normal guy. He is having a little fun with this and should. He was a smart thiker and quick! If all of the negative people happened to see him on the morning news, you could tell he is not a bad guy at all. Infact he would be a blast to sit and shoot the bull with! And by the way rogers, if you read this... how funny, I live in Omaha Ne but was in St. Augistine this last weekend buying a house!My husband and I are moving there next month! Hope to run into you there! You are a funny funny guy!
Just saw you on the Today Show, LOL, glad to see you have a good sense of humor & are a good person. I consider myself a Christian ie. a person who believes in God & that Jesus died for our sins, so we can see the Kingdom of God when we pass away. Also one who treats others as we ourselves want to be treated, "Do unto others etc.". Am a former Catholic, brought up on guilt, abused by 2 priests, {when do they plan to stop sweeping this under the rug), but have gone on with my life & am enjoying it with my 6 surviving children, & now 9 almost 10 grandchildren, GUILT FREE! Everyone else out there like me, get rid of the junk in your past, BE Happy Live For Today, and don't forget to say I love you to your family members everytime you see or talk to them. Let them know how important they are to you!!!! Good luck Roger, GREAT JOB! God Bless You
I just want to know how old the new pope is!!
what a woim. i don't get the voodoo that you do. go say a novena.
you think your wicked smat. take your dag for a wak in the pak with mahky mahk.
get a haircut dude.
redirect the site:
www.DUREX.com
Greetings and good job
Just keep it respectful dude!
congratulation!
I think you're hot.
You were the source of many smiles and laughter this morning on the Today Show. Your friends and family are blessed.
I guess you skipped a letter from the Hungarian quote... most likely an f, I guess. Then there is no accusation there; it would mean `the greatest profiteer/wildcatter/gambler/
speculator is the pope' or something along these lines.
saw you on the today show this morning! i hope you get your hat and your trip to vatican city! ;)
It seems your web site has brought all the cliched hard-liners out, from frothing religious conservatives to bitter anti-US Canadians to conscience-free capitalists and mindless bloggers.
You alone can know that you will use this domain for the right reasons, and must trust yourself. It seems to me that a true Catholic would be relieved to see a man of ethics and spirituality in this position rather than any of the other types above.
God Bless You, and good luck.
Dangit, now I can't read the Cruel.com message board. I have a crush on Roger_That and I would love to give her an "Indulgence"
Watched the Today show and just had to visit the site. Thanks. Its nice to see that there are people out there other than those who attract "bad" attention.
Once you make the Millions, I would love to be your personal hair dresser!
:)
Good idea !!!!
Great interview on Today! Do you think you're actually going to get your requests done? I hope you do. I'm glad that you have a sense of humor and are a catholic. It would have been bad if you didn't have these two qualities. At least for me! Your grandmother has taught you well and I'm proud of your popularity! God Bless!
Good on ya.
Baiting the Christians, or any other religion for that matter, is a great pastime. Well done indeed.
Wonders never cease at the human species.
This is not a very catholic thing that you are trying to do. What is your problem? A good catholic would give the web domain to the Pope. Shame on you and may God have mecry on your soul for trying to profit from the church for your own needs. Jesus never taught us to do that, but to give to others before you recieve.
Saw your Today Show interview. You're wonderful and very funny! Perhaps you should also add to your list of "requests" to do a "Saturday Night Live From The Vatican" ! Thanks for making my day.
ok people there is no god. you all sit here thinking that there is...I mean really what is a pope? the answer is easy...he is the same person as your priest, all that he does is give you a blessing, but unlike your priest the pope will never talk to you in person...he dont care about you nor does he want to...he gets paid for being a icon to many around the world so that we dont lose the faith in god....well if there was a god then I want my neice back and the real fuckin pope the first one
Isn't Ratzinger the guy who used to play Cliff Clavin on Cheers? I had the domain names popecliffy.com and cliffthefirst.com covered.....
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good job! ha ha made me laugh this morning!
If you decide to put up ads, maybe I should put one up for an auction on this cheese sandwich I have currently warehoused in my freezer. It has an image on it that looks suspiciously like my dog, Barney.
Thinking it was a sign from above, I was SURE we were gonna get a Pope Barney I as the new guy.
Fortunately for me, I didn't put any money on it.
Cadenhead has abandond his family! We have been silenced! How Cruel!
Congratulations on the showing that science and spirituallity can be mixed.
You represent a great sense of humor coupled with the knowledge of both science and religion.
As a computational chemist with a love of Christ and God, it is refreshing to see someone link both.
Loved your wish list. Totally hilarious and puts the papacy into a more practical poise.
I would like you to add forums discussing several topics. Some topics of hopefully your comparable interest.
- the Infallibility of the Bible (the existence of so many religions)
- Reconciliation with other religions (Do all of the good souls in other religions go to hell just because of their religious choice?)
- Can science explain faith? (The trick here is that the greatest scientist is God ... thus is it just that we currently do not know enough of science to relate it to our faith/feelings/emotions?
I have a full list of thoughts so I'll stop now. Check me at my link.
This is all well and good, but WHO WILL BE EATEN FIRST?
At the risk of "attack of penguins clutching rulers in Braveheart formation"
flashbacks coming back...
Thanks for sharing your quirky humor with us all.
Anonymous Catholic School Survivor
I really hope you do the right thing and turn over the website to the Vatican. I pray that you will. Listen to your good Catholic Grandmom, she's much wiser than you. I'll pray for you, you need it. Out of respect to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI and to all Catholics (the good orthodox ones expecially), please turn this site over to the Vatican. And to all of you out there who hate the Catholic Church and our new Pope, may God have mercy on your souls.
YOU WILL BE TASTY LC, BUT I WILL EAT YOU LAST!
I WONDER IF MORTALS TASTE GOOD WITH COMMUNION WINE AND THOSE TASY CRAKERS...
You are probably gay ?
Because idiot and stupid, no doubt!
North american silly, no doubt!
Yeah, I'm gay because I think what rcade did is funny, or because I am making fun of some "concerned Catholic" who really doesn't hasn't faith enough to laugh at worldly matters.
You *totally* figured me out.
Good job rcade, I'm glad you're not selling this to the pr0n people or the gamblers. You get on with your bad self.
CTHULU -- I'll pray for you too.
You are great.
I'll be dipped in natural organic fertilizer if I can figure out why turning the domain name over to the Vatican is "doing the right thing". It sure is quite something to watch, though, the way some Catholics are getting so righteously indignant over the mere possibility that one of their sacred cows might get gored, as if the powers that be in the Catholic Church give a tinker's damn what anybody else considers sacred. I'm sorry that some of y'all are about to blow a blood vessel about this, but it's high time you considered the consequences of trying to compel obedience from those over whom you have no actual power. You wanna get it, you gotta give it.
No LC, YOU WILL PRAY TO ME!
Mwahahahahahahahah. Even your precious Pope Benzene the XVI prays to me:
All Hail CTHULU!
saw you on the early morning show, enjoyed the sight hope one day the vatican will own it and be thankful for some extensive re-search on your part
Kevin
Texas
You are so claver and.......
CTHULU -- you've got issues.
LC- Get some humor dear.
Arguing with someone on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics, even if you win, your still retarded.
oooo........ rfd chips on walmart.....well, i shouldnt worry, they never let me in cause of that no shoes, no shirt, no service thingy...apparently they arent intrested on spying on a barefooter's life =P!!!!!!
i wonder how much till someone talks about elvis on this place.
Anyway.... i had a dream...cadenhead became the next pope...cause he got more attention from catholics, muslims and all religions from the world than the real pope himself, and with cadenhead as pope (wearing benedict's hat) he led the world into unity and love and peace....and everyone had a movable type bible and to exorzize pepole they would read:
Norton 8:20 "and the evilness of the worm was destroyed by the might of the antivirus...for the new service pack was created in 7 days by microsoft, and microsoft saw it was good"
dear cadenhead,
its nice
thank u too much for that
by this page we can know about our pope
rajon from bangladesh.
I think you shoould stop this inmediately!!
George w bush could see this as a terrorist act and decide to start a war on squatting... then he would start to invade every country in the look of servers of mass distraction.... i can imagine the evening news showing how 4 soldiers died in a mailbomb... and how after 6 months of being in ecuator, they still havent found the squatter that bought www.barney.net, terrorizing unsuspecting children that acces the .net site, hoping to hear barney singing and instead getting algebra equations and history lessons....THE HORROR...OMG THE HORROR!!!
I prefer the united nations.
Read my book.
The United Nations,
the reign of God?
Emmanuel Michielszoon
The new pope says, the catholic church is te germ of the reign of God.???
in my opinion
the UNITED NATIONS
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The new pope says, the catholic church is te germ of the reign of God.???
in my opinion
the UNITED NATIONS
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er for you the pope
YOU SMART SON OF A GUN!
Hey,
YOU ARE REALLY GOOD GUY..BUT THIS TIME I HOPE YOU WILL GIVE NEW POPE A CHANCE!!! LET THEM KNOW VATICAN IS STUPID !!!1
I was wondering if anybody had bought benedictxvi.com. Blimey. What are you going to use it for?
Did you see that? The benedictvmxvi.org is being sold on ebay! There is another smart ass who thinks he can make money out of it. I wonder how far it's gonna go?? Because I think that this is a great domain name too!
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when he Realizes
the One he Thought
an Enemy
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