Any Sign of White Smoke Yet?

[give her dixie]

And the new Pope is..........................

[muppet]

Saint Malachy was optimistic:

In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit [i.e., as bishop].
Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e. Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.

[muppet]

Saint Malachy was optimistic:

In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit [i.e., as bishop].
Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e. Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.

Feck me, maybe it was Armagh, not Rome malachy was going on about, after all Armagh was built on seven hills........................... We are all fecked.

Pope Stew of Armagh has a ring to it!

[give her dixie]

False alarm on the white smoke.....

[Wildweasel74]

very good

[Shamrock Shore]

I love that new Pope smell.

Scola has it and he will be John XXIV

[muppet]

I love that new Pope smell.

Scola has it and he will be John XXIV

The radical era of John Paul II and Benedict will now come to an end then.

[Ulick]

I love that new Pope smell.

Scola has it and he will be John XXIV

Why John? John XXIII wouldn't strike me as someone Scola would want to emulate.

[give her dixie]

Anyone willing to hazzard a guess on who it is, or what continent he is from?

I say they stay conservative and go Italian, or European at the very least

[Oraisteach]

Too few ballots for it to  be anyone other than a frontrunner, I would think, so Scola looks hot right now.

[dec]

Paddy Power has Scola at 1/2

[muppet]

I pray that the new Pope will forgive us all of our debts and together we can pray for the Bondholders in a new era of burden-sharing.

[Oraisteach]

c'mon O'Malley, an Irishman

[give her dixie]

Did anyone read this article yesterday?

As cardinals gather to elect Pope, Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that priests share €23m building with huge gay sauna

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/as-cardinals-gather-to-elect-pope-catholic-officials-break-into-a-sweat-over-news-that-priests-share-23m-building-with-huge-gay-sauna-8529670.html

[Gabriel_Hurl]