selkie: (Disgruntled Seal)
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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 06:40pm on 19/04/2005
...What on G-d's green earth?

*sputters*

I work all day and I find out they've picked RATZINGER.
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posted by [identity profile] friede.livejournal.com at 10:49pm on 19/04/2005
*shrug* *can't take any more asprin for hours*
 
posted by [identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com at 11:05pm on 19/04/2005
At age 78, everyone seems to be viewing him as a short-term pope, an experienced senior administrator who will keep the church going while it absorbs JPII's legacy.

It was interesting to me that pundits are convinced the college was torn between electing a transitional pope and a dynamic Latin American. Makes me wonder how Latin America got so lucky?
 
posted by [identity profile] shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com at 03:27pm on 20/04/2005
By having the fastest-growing Catholic population in the world (while Europe's is actually shrinking), and by constituting about 35% of the Church.

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