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!
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Thank you for taking religion to a new level that we never thought possible.
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHAT MUSIC THE PAPACY PROMOTES AND CONDEMNS!
OBVIOUSLY, priests love Gregorian chant. And apparently the Pope loves Mozart -- even if Mozart fled from his master-bishop in the eighteenth century and supported the Freemasons in Die Zauberflote.
In more recent times, of course, when the Spanish anarchist, and the Italian and German Jews wanted some Pope or other to condemn the Nazi hym-sheet, one could not be found: the Vatican was shtumm! Why did the Papacy never condemned this entry either in Germany, Austria or Croatia:
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It's true, you can never find a Pope when you most want one. But that is not the current predicament. The 'swing' that the Fueher condemned is back in controversial vogue in the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI who is in a unique position to appreciate the Nazi hymn-sheet, not least because he served with the Wehrmacht and is perfectly familiar with these dulcet tones of the above marches. Now, however, he has decided to condemn Rock 'n Roll. Not having a wife or children -- that is, no one in the Vatican whose lives, customs and habits he could refer to, he must turn for guidance to colleagues who are also, unfortunately, aging men like himself -- and all of whome have, like himself, have foresworn family life. And yet they can somehow come to the conclusion (one suspects more from from deductive rather than inductive logic) that Rock 'N Roll is something to be condemned.
Presumably , the ban on Rock includes Tina Turner. If Satanism is the yardstick by which Rock 'N Roll should be condemned, then Ms Turner is surely guilty. She is positively the queen of witches -- even witchier than Queen!
So, is this rock-classic to be condoned or condemned also?
Tina Turner-The best
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And what about Dvorak's waternymph? Whatever else she is , she is no christian. Waternymphs are invariably pagan; for while Christians see miracles and 'moving statues', waternymphs bay at the moon for human love. And Renee Fleming in her 'Chanson a la Lune' is every bit as hexifying as Tina Turner. Morever, the Christian has seen fit to cut out all pagan knowledge from the known world and still practises it in the third world. He has incorporated his acts of vandalism into what he calls Cannon Law -- the code of Roman priestcraft. So, having burned the heretics of Rock 'N Roll at the stake of a celibate Papacy, the chalk-loving schoolmen of the Vatican may well turn their wrath on this Waternymph -- in whose orisons be all our wishes for a religion-free world remembered :
Fleming - Dvorak
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It must be truly wonderful to be Infallible! And to know what is good for everybody else!
Seamus Breathnach
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I have lived in 4 different types of religious homes "there is know need for a god" Stand on your own. Ray
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