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The New Pope

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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,034
    Why is the Pope always really old? This latest one is 76 and retired as an archbishop last year because of his age. Yet now he can be the Pope. Why don't they just elect someone younger and get a few more years out of them.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,662
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    Why is the Pope always really old? This latest one is 76 and retired as an archbishop last year because of his age. Yet now he can be the Pope. Why don't they just elect someone younger and get a few more years out of them.

    The cardinals always vote for someone old, so that they may have a chance in the future.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Good luck to the new pope, though he does look like Jim Bowen.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,056
    shirty5 said:

    Good luck to the new pope, though he does look like Jim Bowen.

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9ItUow2Jo3E/UUD5HzG1hVI/AAAAAAAAAbs/u8x0I143b0U/s1600/newpope.png
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited March 2013
    You can picture it.

    'Now come and stand over 'ere Petal'

    You would have won, the speedboat, a holiday in Majorca plus eternity in heaven seated at the right hand of God'.

    'But tonight you go away with your Bully tankard, and eternal damnation rotting in bowels of hell'.

  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Rumour has it they offered it to Nathan but he couldn't afford the fair to get over there.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Any Nazi
    Saga Lout said:

    Rumour has it they offered it to Nathan but he couldn't afford the fair to get over there.

    He turned it down because there isn't a bookies in the Vatican.

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    Why is the Pope always really old? This latest one is 76 and retired as an archbishop last year because of his age. Yet now he can be the Pope. Why don't they just elect someone younger and get a few more years out of them.

    Because the old ones are closer to god ;-)

  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,882
    Draizetrain said:

    vff said:

    JT said:

    Falkland islands are fucked then

    Jon Snow, C4 said that the new Pope had a lot of rucks and disagreements with the Argentinian government, so not necessarily bad for the Falklanders.

    This `new' Pope said, at a Mass at Buenos Aires metropolitan cathedral on April 2 last year, the 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands: "We come to pray for all who have fallen, sons of the homeland who went out to defend their mother, the homeland, and to reclaim what is theirs, that is of the homeland, and it was usurped."

    Fair enough. That doesn't look good.
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    Should keep his bloody nose out of things that don't concern him. The Falklands have nothing to do with religion.

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
    He can't defend, but some say he's good with crosses:

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  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Alan Freeman arrives back at Heathrow. The Pope-pickers have dispersed.
  • jblockmatt
    jblockmatt Posts: 369
    They have a view on everything.

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