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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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Cephus said:
If you're afraid to debate it, I understand.
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Tell me son, what is it that disturbs you so?

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Gaius46 said:
There are a lot Catholics in the United States and a lot of them vote.
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and hardly any of them look to the Vatican before they cast their ballot.
 
Cephus said:
Many of those things are being done secularly, many of the largest charities out there are secular. Those secular charities can manage to do the good work that the religious are, without the religious baggage that the religious charities drag around. Believe it or not, you can feed the hungry without requiring them to hear a sermon first. There are many religious charities, like the Salvation Army, who refuse to help anyone that doesn't listen to their spiel. If you're a non-theist, you can starve as far as they're concerned.
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I don't know of any religious charities that refuse to help anyone who doesn't listen to their religion...

Could you post some examples from the salvation army refusing to help people for not listening to their "spiel"? and all the other religious organizations you think discriminate because the ones I know of go out of their way to help everyone regardless of what they do or do not believe.
 
So..... what's the point of the Pope if the majority of people who call themselves Catholics don't agree with him?
 
Josie said:
So..... what's the point of the Pope if the majority of people who call themselves Catholics don't agree with him?
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I don't think a majority do disagree.
 
Josie said:
Maybe I just know too many "in name only" Catholics.
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That could be...there certainly are secular Jews and cultural Catholics.
 
Josie said:
Maybe I just know too many "in name only" Catholics.
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Maybe you know only American Catholics? They are much more liberal than Catholics of other nations. I was listening to S.E. Cupp today, I think, she was saying that Catholics from other countries are shown to become much less pro-life, once they live here.

I know lots of American Catholics. They run the gamut from very doctrinaire to cafeteria Catholics.
 
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Peter Grimm said:
Good and evil are absolute.

Murder is bad. Charity is good.

To say that morality is subjective is just a cop out.
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Not, it's not. To just take them for granted is a cop out, I'd say.
 
Josie said:
So..... what's the point of the Pope if the majority of people who call themselves Catholics don't agree with him?
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I think he was the perfect pick. He is a truly humble man who chose to live in and apartment rather then live in a big house............He chose not to have a big car rather ride the bus.........He washed and kissed the feet of AIDS patients.......He is a special man.
 
mak2 said:
I am not Catholic but I beleive the Catholic Church is overall a force of good in the world. I therefore hope they choose wisely and continue to be a good, powerful institiution world wide.
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I am Catholic and I agree. It gets coverage because it's a large organization capable of doing good and harm, both with theatrics. This often makes them very visible, getting too much credit and discredit publicly.
 
Dragonfly said:
There's an awful lot in your short little post that's highly debatable.

However, that doesn't really answer my question.

Is the press coverage of this "event" reasonable, or do you find it intrusive and obnoxious?

It's not like the vote for the next pope is a public vote.
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Obviously the fact that so many WERE interested indicates that maybe the one being obnoxious is...well...you...
 
Dragonfly said:
I believe the poll shows quite obviously....you're wrong.
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I believe the global news coverage and the threads on this site talking about it prove Im right.
 
The news agencies have their own agendas. Selling news. The threads here are plenty negative about the whole deal.

Based on rough numbers, 17% of the world is catholic.

Of those 17% I'd bet half are more like "catholic in name only" kinda people.

For every major news agency to have been continually posting minutia on such a constant basis when there was little to nothing to report is precisely the reason for my questions in the OP.

Why is it news, when for the majority it isn't?
And who finds it irritating?

For the record, I feel the same way about the amount of coverage the Philadelphia Eagles get in local news even when it's month and months away from football season.
 
Dragonfly said:
There's an awful lot in your short little post that's highly debatable.

However, that doesn't really answer my question.

Is the press coverage of this "event" reasonable, or do you find it intrusive and obnoxious?

It's not like the vote for the next pope is a public vote.
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I think it got so much press because he resigned which has not happened in a very long time.
 
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