I wish is statements, his beliefs, would have become Doctrine.

Conclave will be interesting as Francis appointed a larger number of new cardinals from areas of the world that would otherwise never have a cardinal.

RIP senior Bergoglio. It seems SOP for politicians to meet him, sadly very few represent the values he stood for.

I am praying for Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Praying for a Congolese is tantamount to treason nowadays! Are you sure this guy you’re praying for isn’t a murderer or a rapist?

The next thing you know, he’ll be trying to get into the U.S. and you know what happens when you let those ‘whiny furriners’ get too uppity, especially the black ones!

https://youtu.be/gpl1qzevYR0?si=qlrVsAFLvJkRdO1b

RIP!

Apparently they have ones on the extreme right and ones on the extreme left!

Who is going to get the votes??

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Originally posted by ledvm:
I am praying for Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I’m not Catholic. Who leads their church means nothing to me.

Africa is a rapidly growing Catholic region. I hope that Christianity in the region continues to flourish. Having and African Pope would certainly advance the agenda.

I am not Catholic either.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
RIP!

Apparently they have ones on the extreme right and ones on the extreme left!

Who is going to get the votes??

The Vatican Mafiosi have already got things worked out.

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Originally posted by nute:
RIP senior Bergoglio. It seems SOP for politicians to meet him, sadly very few represent the values he stood for.

Well said. I am not a believer but I have great respect for him and many of the values he represented. I was sad to read the news.

Maga has it covered already.....

https://youtu.be/eSs91epYnu8?si=eLrPZWuj87_Bs3_n

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Africa is a rapidly growing Catholic region. I hope that Christianity in the region continues to flourish. Having and African Pope would certainly advance the agenda.

I am not Catholic either.

Yeah, the Church needs another conservative who will fiver up more child sex abuse, and shrink the Church’e influence and membership.

But hey, like I said, I am not Catholic. They can do as they wish.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Africa is a rapidly growing Catholic region. I hope that Christianity in the region continues to flourish. Having and African Pope would certainly advance the agenda.

I am not Catholic either.

Yeah, the Church needs another conservative who will fiver up more child sex abuse, and shrink the Church’e influence and membership.

But hey, like I said, I am not Catholic. They can do as they wish.

I'm not a Catholic either.......they need another that follows the teaching of Christ..... Anti abortion and such......

Follow scripture and leave unto Caesar what is Caesar's....

Except Christ said nothing about Abortion and such things.

Except the early Church has women deacons.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Except Christ said nothing about Abortion and such things.

Except the early Church has women deacons.

You are right that Jesus did not say anything about abortion directly as abortion. However, there is a lot of implication of it being wrong.

He also said things to indicate that regardless of your sins, if you admit error, beg forgiveness, and believe you will be forgiven.

As to women deacons… in some places, yes.

But unless I missed something, women priests and pastors are a modern thing. Say what you will, at least historically female ecclesiastic authority is not a thing in the Christian church. While there are inferences in the Bible, it’s not spelled out because the church structure did not exist until after Jesus was crucified.

The procedure was known to that works and the Old Testament, and not a word.

Actually, before the Counsel of Nicaea there were a lot of female “pastors.”

Females preach in the New Testament.

Again, the early church had female deacons in Judea.