Agro Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/13/17290508-pope-francis-i-argentinas-cardinal-jorge-mario-bergoglio-is-new-catholic-leader?lite Argentinian Pope I hope he's better than the last guy was :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerion Brightflame Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Apparently on the BBC coverage, they called him Brazillian. Well, if he is going to be a good pope like the Church seemingly needs, things need to open up. But then again it's unlikely if not impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ListenToLife Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Apparently on the BBC coverage, they called him Brazillian. Well, if he is going to be a good pope like the Church seemingly needs, things need to open up. But then again it's unlikely if not impossible. Not on my TV. And I'm pretty sure I've got the same BBC as everyone else in britain. :/ As for the pope, I honestly dont really care. I'm not a huge fan of Christianity as a whole. Catholicism doesn't really interest me at all. T'is a bit unusual though; there are very few non-european popes, and I'm pretty sure this is the first from the Americas, right? So it should be a little intriguing to see his perspective of things. But I probably wont be following his actions that much anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihop Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 He looks like the most boring person ever, he has absolutely no recognisable facial features. As a Pope, I don't know, I'm technically Catholic so I should care about this sort of thing but really I don't. BTW this is the first non-European Pope I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehmani Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/14/pope-francis-argentina-military-junta What is it with the Catholic Church and colluding with Fascism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mugendramon Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/14/pope-francis-argentina-military-junta What is it with the Catholic Church and colluding with Fascism? He's part of that one branch of christianiy which features military-like organization. The guy has no association with the dirty war. As someone who lives here and has studied that topic many times over, I would also like to point out that our deeeeeear president likes to throw that phrase around a lot. As for silence, he might be. But that doesn't actually mean he was aware of what his priests were doing, or whether they were actually being forced to do what they did and not actually following orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihop Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 He's also anti-celibacy, which is good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ListenToLife Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 He looks like the most boring person ever, he has absolutely no recognisable facial features. As a Pope, I don't know, I'm technically Catholic so I should care about this sort of thing but really I don't. BTW this is the first non-European Pope I think. Nah, there have been quite a few non-european ones. Mostly from around the Israel sort of area though. (And a - to me - surprising number of Africans, though white-africans) The 'first pope' (St Peter) wasn't european. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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