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Do you REALLY care about the next Pope?

How much do you care about who the next Pope is?


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I'd like to think they're smart enough to not elect a guy who could hold "office" for 40 years, but I'm guessing it's more about making sure the guy they elect is completely under control and not some hip-shooting cowboy that might go all whacky-crazy and say something like: "Condoms are actually very smart things for people to use when they have sex."

What I think is that you have very little understanding of the purpose, the process, or the point.
 
I'm going by the track record of past Popes who have known full well about the problem and have pretended it didn't exist. I see no reason to think this guy will be any different. I hope you're right though, although being right will entirely destroy the church financially, although I think that's already a foregone conclusion.

How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?
 
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?

Pedophiles are not gay. You have had this repeatedly documented for you. Why do you continue to spread the lie?
 
I thought some pedophiles were gay while some were straight.
 
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?

So you are saying the Popes came up through the system never hearing a word about child molesting priests and once in the Vatican were kept in Ivory Towers?

You also think that when USofA Catholic Church fought the charges, hid priests and then declared bankruptcy it did that all WITHOUT Papal Approval?
 
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?

We already know for a fact that various diocese have extensive paperwork on pedophile priests, given the release of over 12,000 pages from the Los Angeles Diocese. Are you suggesting that the Vatican has nothing? Seriously?
 
I thought some pedophiles were gay while some were straight.

Of those with a defined sexuality beyond being attracted to young children, > 90 % are straight.
 
What I think is that you have very little understanding of the purpose, the process, or the point.

Considering how silly, sad, and in many way pathetic, I find the whole "system" - you're most likely correct.
 
I care insofar as the new Pope might do something to alleviate poverty. I'm also hoping against hope that he actually does something to curb the child molestations by priests. Ya know, like maybe if a priest molests a child, ex-communicate him and turn him over to law enforcement? Think that might be a better approach than covering up the crime and letting the priest continue practicing?
 
Of those with a defined sexuality beyond being attracted to young children, > 90 % are straight.

Another fun statistic: ~4.8% of Catholic priests abused kids. The other ~95% didn't. The rate is actually higher in American public schools.
 
So you are saying the Popes came up through the system never hearing a word about child molesting priests and once in the Vatican were kept in Ivory Towers?

You also think that when USofA Catholic Church fought the charges, hid priests and then declared bankruptcy it did that all WITHOUT Papal Approval?

Prior to 2001, the primary responsibility for investigating allegations of sexual abuse and disciplining perpetrators rested with the individual dioceses. In 2001, Ratzinger convinced John Paul II to put the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in charge of all investigations and policies surrounding sexual abuse in order to combat such abuse more efficiently

WIKI

Shortly after Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI) was put in charge of the sex abuse cases he began prosecuting them and changed canon law.

The pope is not an absolute monarch, contrary to popular opinion. He is the head of over 1 billion followers, but power is primarily concentrated by archbishops and bishops in the various dioceses throughout the world.
 
I could care less. The only thing that really matters is the Church's "official stance" on public policies.
 
The Pope and the Catholic Church are much like the the Republican Party in the United States. Out of touch with social equality and riddled with incompetency.
 
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