Pope resigns

[AQMP]

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is the 5/2 fav.  How will an African Pope go down in Kilcoo??

[magpie seanie]

Where are all the tributes?

[Bingo]

Where are all the tributes?

They'll likely to be an envelope collection at mass this sunday for him. That they type of tribute you mean?

[magpie seanie]

Where are all the tributes?

They'll likely to be an envelope collection at mass this sunday for him. That they type of tribute you mean?

No - for all the great things he did in his role as leader of the Catholic religion. There was....and, err, ...

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Where are all the tributes?

They'll likely to be an envelope collection at mass this sunday for him. That they type of tribute you mean?

Hardly worthy of an Emperor of Rome, a Gaul in a cage is what we need, I suggest Gerard Depardieu. O wait, that piss stain on a plane is a Russian now.

[Bingo]

Where are all the tributes?

They'll likely to be an envelope collection at mass this sunday for him. That they type of tribute you mean?

No - for all the great things he did in his role as leader of the Catholic religion. There was....and, err, ...

He went on twitter?

[BennyCake]

Father Jack for Pope!! (But the feckin' Jesuits, they have it all tied up!).

[ballinaman]

The only man for the job!

[heganboy]

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is the 5/2 fav.  How will an African Pope go down in Kilcoo??

The canadian is the favourite Ouiellet- the Ghanian is 5-1

[AQMP]

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is the 5/2 fav.  How will an African Pope go down in Kilcoo??

The canadian is the favourite Ouiellet- the Ghanian is 5-1

The Guardian has been wrong before!!:

Alex Fenton-Thomas profiles Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, named by British bookmakers as the favourite to succeed Benedict.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, a Ghanaian, is president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He has been considered 'papabile' since he was appointed to this post by Benedict XVI in 2009 amid speculation that the next pope would probably be from Africa as part of the Catholic church's attempts to modernise and reach out to a huge Catholic congregation from the Sahel southwards.

Peter Turkson was born in western Ghana to a Methodist mother and Catholic father. As a boy in the seminary he was considered far too boisterous to be content in a contemplative, solemn career in the church.

But he was reportedly begged by his mother to knuckle down and study hard to become a priest, and he did so well he was chosen to move to the US to study at St Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary in Rensselaer, New York, and he was ordained as a priest in 1975.

Returning to Ghana, he became a professor at St Teresa's Seminary, near where he grew up, and dedicated himself to academia as well as performing pastoral work in the local area.

In 1992 he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Coast by Pope John Paul II and served as president of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference from 1997 to 2005.

It was during this time, in 2003, when Pope John Paul made him the first ever Ghanaian cardinal and his influence was extended by Pope Benedict XVI, who appointed him president of the Ponitifical Council for Justice and Peace, a role which sent him around the world mediating in countries such as the Ivory Coast in 2011.

In October of that year he called for the establishment of a 'global public authority' and a 'central world bank' and has come out in favour of a Robin Hood-style tax on large financial transactions. When he visited Britain with Pope Benedict in 2010 he was singled out as a possible successor.

[AQMP]

You can get 1000/1 on Bono to be next Pope.

[mick999]

‏@paddypower
Bizarre developing news that Benedict has resigned because preliminary DNA tests have found high levels of Horse DNA in the Holy Communion.

‏@paddypower
**BREAKING** An unusual twist in the Papal saga, as a potential successor has just arrived at the Vatican. pic.twitter.com/gvknINDr


https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/300942797500989440/photo/1

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

‏@paddypower
Bizarre developing news that Benedict has resigned because preliminary DNA tests have found high levels of Horse DNA in the Holy Communion.

‏@paddypower
**BREAKING** An unusual twist in the Papal saga, as a potential successor has just arrived at the Vatican. pic.twitter.com/gvknINDr


https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/300942797500989440/photo/1

Maybe Pope Benedict contains 66.6% Protestant meat.

[Orior]

I'm hoping the next Pope will be more open for change. Understandably, the Church does not bow to fashion, but the world is a very different place than it was 60 years ago.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

I'm hoping the next Pope will be more open for change. Understandably, the Church does not bow to fashion, but the world is a very different place than it was 600 years ago.

Fixed that for you.