pope

New pope, new pope thread, same old Catholic Church. "Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost; September 14, 1955) is the bishop of Rome, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 papal conclave on May 8, following the death and...

https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/america-votes/pope-slams-both-harris-and-trump-as-against-life-and-urges-catholics-to-vote-for-lesser-evil Talk about Tay-tay telling people how to vote. Which sounds worse to you? Will it move the needle? Basically a stiff breeze will. ETA: If a mod is...

“Pope Francis skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, the Vatican said, making a last-minute decision that added to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy period.”...

The current Pope has shown himself to be a quite rational, deep-thinking sort of person, whose views on science and the scientific process I admire. Recently he said: “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand and able to do...

So, according to the new model pope abortion is a "horror". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25723422

Hello all! There is an issue which I am having trouble documenting and I hope that someone at JREF may be able to help me out a bit. Specifically, last night at dinner I got into a debate about exorcisms where I said something like “the Catholic Church does indeed still preform exorcisms and...

So, what name will the new Pope take? I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this. If there is, feel free to merge this in. In media speculation about upcoming pope names, I noticed they were all talking about name choices in terms of imitating recent Popes. If he were to be called Benedict...

Pope bracket! Just as exciting as the NCAA basketball playoffs - who will be the new Vicar of God, the next man to walk in the footsteps of Peter, in the red Italian leather ballet slippers? Track the candidates from Sweet Sistine to Diocese Duo and on to Supreme Pontiff! Amaze your friends and...

http://news.uk.msn.com/blog/trending-blogpost.aspx?post=9b41f8c0-6434-42c6-8112-ac16a6f40891&_nwpt=1 Several questions that I have are: How often does lightning occur over the Vatican City? And Is the top of that building made out of any particular materials, let's say metal, to make it more...

Source. I found this to be the funniest (and stupidest) bit: It's like a weird collision between medieval beliefs and modern medicine.

I wish I could say I was astonished to read this: So business as usual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1278284/Pope-Benedict-condemns-gay-marriage-insidious-threat-society.html Pope Benedict, in his address to thousands of pilgrims at the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal, condemned gay marriage and abortion as an "insidious threat to society" I...

New song by Tim Minchin welcoming the pope to our shores* This is very NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0 *"What shores?" "Thanks, I'll have a pint."

Seems to be enough grounds to justify a sacking (or perhaps a stoning would sufice?).

Greetings all During a debate about the pope's infallibility and what a crock it is, I was challenged to come up with a single instance of a pope declaring something infallibly (that is, the pope is speaking ex-cathedra, about a matter of faith or religion) and then later being found wrong or...

Well, I'm glad she's getting a trip to Rome, anyway, but I think her mother is just plain mean making her go see the Pope instead of getting a pet hamster: http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_070233524.html

Well, it seems the Hitler Youth thing wasn't a "fling" attributable to his "misspent youth" after all. Apparently his support for the extended Latin Mass with its call for conversion of the Jews just wasn't enough for that crotchety old geezer some call Pope to prove his anti-semitic mettle to...

Some positive news from the Vatican. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081005/ts_afp/vaticanpopesynod

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/12/pope.france.secular.ap/index.html OK, how many times we saw this sort of argument? Can he back it? I say no. Not to mention that I fail to see religion creating a "basic ethical consensus within society". I think nowadays religion has a great...

Ok so first off I'm an atheist. So this morning I hear that the pope has issued some kind of instruction that women priests and the bishops that ordained them are to be excommunicated. "Misogynistic bastage" Is my first reaction. But then I think "hang on, all their rules are based in fairy...

So while another Christian leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury opines on ways of appeasing Moslems by allowing some form of Sharia into England, the Pope it seems was busy recently insulting Jews. I wonder how the Moslems would like it if the word "Jews" below was replaced by the word...

Is this Pope John Paul II waving from beyond the grave? Vatican TV director says yes If you missed this appearance, he'll be appearing on a tortilla in Acapulco on Thursday.

Given that we're now aiming at exposing the nonsense of high-profile people in the media making outrageous supernatural claims, I think we should be going after this guy. Joe Ratzinger He's the head of a cult that makes some spectacular claims, and apparently while in office the guy even has...

Well, ok. What he says is that any church defined through the claims of the papacy is no true church. MSNBC story. I thought that I would actually go to the source to see what he said. From Rev. Mohler's blog (relevant part roughly 1/2-way down page): Thoughts?

Link And the Pope Benedict hit parade just keeps on marching...

Recently the pope (what ever his name is) went to Brazil and declared that a long-since-dead priest had actually been responsible for 2 miracles...:D :D :D 1- What is a miracle? How does the pope know what a miracle is?:confused: If a miracle is the intervention of a spooky, magic...

But, did he mean it? "Speaking outside the Basilica of Our Lady, one of the world's largest cathedrals, the Pope said the Catholic Church would grow by attracting new members, not by proselytising to reluctant audiences". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6651809.stm Is this a call to stop...

So, masturbation is supposedly a sin in some religions, right? The supposed rationale for this is that every sperm cell is a potential life and that the seed should not be wasted in an act of selfish pleasure. Or so I learned in Catholic school. (Okay, they didn't actually cover it in Catholic...

Catholic Church sees hope for unbaptized babies. Wow, they really take this stuff seriously, don't they. Assuming they mean if they die, I think I know.

From todays Irish Times: The Vatican published yesterday - "Schöpfung und Evolution" (Creation and Evolution). According to the IT, the pope describes evolution as "not a complete, scientifically verified theory". He explains that "Evolution theory is in large part not experimentally...