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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
This makes me want to buy the movie The Conclave.

Really? It's a sacrilegious piece of shit.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Perhaps to be replaced by a Christian Anti-Communist.

We need another Pope John Paul II.

Hear! Hear!

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Originally posted by Steyn:
As a Catholic, I hope the next pope is one too.

Well said.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
This makes me want to buy the movie The Conclave.

Really? It's a sacrilegious piece of shit.

Is it? I had wanted to see it in the theaters but never got a chance to. I was just about to rent it.

If you want to know how a papal conclave for election of a new Pope goes, watch “Angels & Demons” or the very excellent “In the Shoes of the Fisherman”.

Popes like John Paul II come once in a century if that.
I'd settle for a Benedict XVI.

As far as a possible origin country, I'd look again to Poland and Central Europe, where they still know what Communism is. Germans tend to be too theoretical (Benedict was that, but in a good way).

What the Church (I'm not a Catholic but my daughter-in-law is) needs is definitely not another social justice warrior like Frank.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Popes like John Paul II come once in a century if that. I'd settle for a Benedict XVI.

Shit, after this current disgusting commie fool, I'd be happy with Guido Sarducci as the Pope.

Para, sounds like all I need to do is send a self addressed envelope to Maurice at 30 Rock and I can be Pope Ibanda! Send $250 and I get the robes and hat!

I pray that Bergoglio (Francis) has a death ed (or serious illness, if he pulls through) conversion of heart and makes peace with God. He has done nothing but divide the Catholic Church and preach heresy and Marxist ideology since he assumed the position of Pope.

I am a Catholic. I believe everything the Catholic Church teaches with an absolute resolve. Bergoglio does not. Unfortunately, Benedict, JPII, Paul VI, and John XXIII also did and taught many things contrary to Catholic tradition and teaching. The Church took a turn for the worse in 1960 and things changed. Once packed churches, cathedrals, and basilicas are now abandoned. Unworldly art and architecture was replaced with modernism and felt banners. Pews empty. Belief dwindling. To right the ship, the Church must look back to the days of the pre-Vatican II liturgies and teachings. Francis is not the cause, but he is the worst symptom of the second Vatican council. Ambiguous and vague on theology and morality, but in your face and bold on Marxist political ideologies.

For those non-catholics, look to people lice Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Bishop Joseph Strickland, Fr. James Altman . These men, all cancelled by Francis, speak the true Catholic teaching and are inspiring even to the most anti-catholics; because they speak truth and when you hear it, your heart rejoices in it.

All this turmoil in the Catholic Church is actually quite comforting. It shows that the Catholic Church is THE battleground. Real Spiritual Warfare on display. The devil attacks where the most damage will be sustained.

It's probably more today with inflation.

Do you think they will elect a change in direction?

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Do you think they will elect a change in direction?

The big problem is that Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) has purged so many conservative Bishops and elevated so many of his minions to the position of Cardinal. It won't be easy.

As a reformed, I do hope the Catholic Church can get back to being a good representative for the catholic Church but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Good luck to the sitting pope and to his hopefully more orthodox successor.

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican said Tuesday, after new tests showed a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old pontiff that raised concerns about his ability to fight off the infection.

The Vatican said Francis’ respiratory infection also involves asthmatic bronchitis, which requires the use of cortisone antibiotic treatment. “Laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and the Holy Father’s clinical condition continue to present a complex picture,” the Vatican said.

Nevertheless the pope, who had the upper lobe of his right lung removed as a young man, is in good spirits and is grateful for the prayers for his recovery, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a late update.

Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital in a “fair” condition on Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened. On Monday, medical personnel determined that he was suffering from a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection, meaning a mix of viruses, bacteria and possibly other organisms had colonized in his respiratory tract.

“The follow-up chest CT scan which the Holy Father underwent this afternoon … demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia, which required additional drug therapy,” Bruni said.

Bronchitis can lead to pneumonia, which is a deeper and far more serious infection of the lungs’ air sacs. Pneumonia can develop in part of one lung or an entire lung or both lungs. It tends to be more serious when both lungs are affected because there isn’t healthy lung tissue to compensate.

Treatment varies by severity but can include providing oxygen through a nasal tube or mask, intravenous fluids – and treatment of the underlying cause of the infection. To date Francis is not known to be using supplemental oxygen, and he has eaten breakfast every day, read the newspapers and done some work from his hospital room.

The Vatican hasn’t provided any information about how Francis is responding to any of the drugs he has been given other than to say he isn’t running a fever.

Dr. Carmelo D’Asero, an infectious disease and geriatric disease expert in Rome, said Francis’ lack of a fever was not necessarily a positive thing, given the seriousness of his infection.

“A high fever is a sign of an immune response to a pathogen,” he said. “Having a low fever and having a serious bronchial infection … is a sign of a decreased immune response and that makes us worry a little bit more, let’s say. Maybe if he had a fever, it would have been better.”

The Vatican has given no indication of how long the pope might remain hospitalized, only saying that the treatment of such a “complex clinical picture,” which has already required several changes in his drug regimen, would require an “adequate” stay.

Despite the less than positive news about Francis’ condition, a rainbow appeared over the Gemelli hospital on Tuesday afternoon and Francis received get-well drawings and cards from children being treated in the hospital’s oncology ward.

In a sign that other Vatican business was proceeding as usual Tuesday, the Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, continued his delicate visit to Burkina Faso and another top Vatican cardinal, Cardinal Michael Czerny, prepared to leave Wednesday for a five-day visit to Lebanon.

But other business had to be canceled. There will be no weekly general audience Wednesday, and it’s not clear if Francis will miss his Sunday noon blessing for a second week in a row. His hospitalization has also forced the cancellation of some events surrounding the Vatican Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century ceremony in which millions of pilgrims flock to Rome.

This Holy Year weekend was dedicated to deacons, the ministry that is a necessary step for men who are preparing to become priests. Francis had an unrelated audience Saturday and was supposed to have ordained the deacons during a Mass on Sunday. The Vatican on Tuesday announced his audience was canceled and that the archbishop who is organizing the Jubilee would celebrate the Mass in the pope’s place.

It’s a similar arrangement that the Vatican announced last weekend when artists in town had to settle for a scrapped papal audience and a cardinal presiding over their special Mass.

The next Jubilee events on the calendar that would typically involve the pope are the March 8-9 weekend dedicated to volunteers.

Francis had part of one lung removed after a pulmonary infection as a young man and is prone to bouts of bronchitis in winter. He has admitted in the past that he is a non-compliant patient, and even his close Vatican aides have said he pushed himself too far even once his bronchitis was diagnosed.

He refused to let up on his busy schedule and ignored medical advice to stay indoors during Rome’s chilly winter, insisting on sitting through an outdoor Jubilee Mass for the armed forces on Feb. 9 even though he was having trouble breathing.

Francis’ hospital admission this year has already sidelined him for longer than a 2023 hospitalization for pneumonia.

This phony Marxist "Pope" is not long for this world

Maybe this time around they will pick an actual follower of Christ.

Probably COVID.

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With an ailing pontiff having created 2/3rds of the College of Cardinal electors, it is a pretty good bet that the next pontiff will be cut from the same cloth as Francis.

Most would've come into the priesthood during JPII's papacy. I'm hoping that their fundamental beliefs and doctrinal views are informed by his influence rather than by the pseudo-Catholic liberation theology activist who elevated them.

Seems like we will be seeing Smoke Signals in the near future.