General Chat

He is 85 years old, and I for one do not blame him for wanting to retire. I hope is left in peace to enjoy whatever it he is planning to do with the rest of his life.

Well friends, I have had the news on all day (as usual) and I have two observations:

Priests have perfected the art of 'waffle dialogue' in order to avoid answering a straightforward question with anything that sounds remotely humanoid.

The next Pope will be against contraception, gays, women priests, married priests or anything else that might drag it into the last century let alone this one.

Good luck!

Wow! That's a sweeping statement Supercrutch and by what authority can you possibly make it? How many priests have you actually met or know?

One man does not make a religion or institution so i cannot see the next Pope changing anything,

On that basis the statement by supercrutch is correct IMHO

Roy

The Queen is 86, ;-)

and belive only ill health would induce her to hand in the crown.

Have any of you thought he maybe on his last legs now,sort of One foot in the grave already..

He could well be Sue..but the cynicism from my point of view lies in the fact that they usually stay pope til they die..serious.illness not being an exception to this...of course it may well be just as they say it is.....who knows !!!

Cynthia, I bow to the superior knowledge of all the priests and Archbishops having their twopennorth today.

So don't shoot the messenger :-P

PS I don't associate with priests :-D

Make sure we all read the tabloids because they are the only true source of infallibly correct information on this subject.

There is nothing wrong with growing old or enfeeble. We all do it.

why dont they get a much younger Pope instead of employing them when are already 102 yrs old , they need young fresh blood someone abit hip :-D

Maybe they should make the choosing of the new pope into an X Factor type programme........ :-D :-D

Well, I think we have to admit that both priests and Archbishops will have more insight into what is going than the average layperson Supercrutch. .


I have, over many years and still do in fact, associate with priests of both the RC and the Anglican variety - one of our closest friends is an RC priest and he's brilliant and much loved by his parishioners.


My OH has Parkinson's and our vicar regularly calls in for a chat and to keep an eye on things to see if there is anything he can do to help.


Of course, there are some clergy who are complete twerps but, all in all, they're a good bunch.



Kay, I agree - I think it would have to be severe ill-health that would force the Queen into abdicating.

Hayley, there are a couple of reasons why young men aren't usually chosen - they need to choose a man who has had quite a lot of experience in parochial and diocesan matters, and that can take years. Also, if someone is too young, they could be stuck with him for far too long...... :-D

I admire the Pope for his announcement. It would be sad to watch him deteriorate like Pope PaulJohn11.

a selection like they did for Dorothy - Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Graham Norton - now I'm liking that - black/white smoke just doesn't do it for me

so what would the prospective candidates have to do?

There has to be a rap competition Ann....and also a hand wrestling contest :-D

My daughter's very happy :-D

Apparently, thanks to a cheeky bet when they were courting, the Pope's resignation means her husband now owes her a trip to Italy :-D :-D

maybe he realsied what happend to the last one ;-) ;-)

It really doesn't matter whether he resigned for genuine reasons or not, Whats important is that like all good Catholic men............ He pulled out early......

Roy :-D

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