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Browne wrong again: The Pope

She must have been thinking about Pope Benedict's coat of arms- it's divided into three parts, and has a Moor's head (a black man!) in one third.
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RSLancastr said:
At one point in the show, Browne suddenly stopped, made a "concentrating" face, and said "The Pope just died." The audience gasped.

Nice try, though.
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Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this...I'd have spit it out my nose for sure.

Lemme try: I'm concentrating hard - a far-off, distant look in my eyes, I'm seeing something that is neither here nor there...a man named John just died...he was old, he had brown hair and brown eyes.
 
Thanks alot Hawthorne, I just wasted 14 minutes calling every John I know trying to find when the funeral would be.

Boy, do I look like a Sylvia Browne :o
 
Sylvia Browne's predictions just get worse with time. Browne writes in Prophecy: What the Future Holds for You (2005) on page 145-146:

Prophecy: What the Future Holds for You page 145-146 said:
After Pope John Paul II passes, there will be only one more elected pope. He will be succeeded by what is essentially a triumvirate of popes, or a college of cardinals, who will share the responsibility of all previous popes.
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Also on her website here:
Sylvia Browne said:
No longer a single Pope, but a triumvirate of Popes, each assigned to a geographic collection of Catholics.
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From: http://www.sylviabrowne.com/g/The-Next-100-Years/172.html

The prediction that there would only be "one Pope" after John Paul II was from 2005. She failed to predict John Paul II's 2005 death and now Browne failed to predict the papal resignation last month:

New York Times said:
Last Pope to Resign Faced Division Within the Church
By RICK GLADSTONE
New York Times
February 11, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement on Monday that he was stepping down because he was too elderly and infirm for the job was the first papal resignation in 598 years.
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Full: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/w...so-in-midst-of-vatican-leadership-crisis.html

Once in 500 years and Browne failed to foresee it. Meanwhile the Papal conclave is electing a new Pope.
 
One wonders how many psychics did predict the pope's resignation... :D
 
Pope Benedict will be the last elected Pope

Let's not forget this Sylvia Browne quote from her 2008 book “End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World” (more on those predictions here):

Sylvia Browne’s “End of Days” page 215 said:
Pope Benedict will be the last elected Pope. His reign will be succeeded by a new Catholic practice of selecting a college of cardinals, essentially a triumvirate of popes who will collectively share papal responsibilities.
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She also claimed in 2004:
SHOW: The Montel Williams Show (5:00 PM ET) - SYND
DATE: December 31, 2003 Wednesday
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BROWNE: But I think within the next year or two we're going to have a black pope.

WILLIAMS: Really? So what, if the pope dies and they elect--OK, it's got to be that one.

BROWNE: Yeah, and then after that, they're going to have a triumvirate of popes, which is something they've never had before.

WILLIAMS: Three popes in the same office?

BROWNE: Three popes, yeah.
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Wrong again.
 
poblob14 said:
You can't fool us by leaving the "e" off the end of your name, Sylvia. :D
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One of the sad things about my forum alias is that it is pronounced in the same way as that full-o-fertilizer huckster. She WISHES she could predict the future as well as I do.
 
Well, I predict that every Pope, and every Cardinal -- in fact, every clergyman in the Catholic church -- will die. Eventually. Inevitably!

Pah, it's child's play to one with my Psychic Panache!
 
Pope Francis

A new Pope has been elected.

The New Pope: Bergoglio of Argentina
By RACHEL DONADIO
New York Times
March 13, 2013


With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of rain-soaked faithful, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new pope from among their midst on Wednesday — choosing the cardinal from Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first leader of the church ever chosen from South America.

The new pope, 76, who will be called Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, is also the first non-European leader of the church in more than 1,000 years.
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Popes since 1978
• 16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005: Pope John Paul II
• 19 April 2005 to 28 February 2013: Pope Benedict XVI
• 13 March 2013 to present: Pope Francis


Sylvia Browne's predictions for the last decade
Browne said in 2003:
Montel Williams Show said:
SHOW: THE MONTEL WILLIAMS SHOW
DATE: December 31, 2003 Wednesday
TITLE: SYLVIA PREDICTS 2004
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WILLIAMS: Absolutely. And more than four in 10 people said that they've attended religious services in the past week. Ask--answer this one. What about the pope this year?

BROWNE: He's going to die. He's going to die.

WILLIAMS: And what's...

BROWNE: I don't think you have to be too psychic to figure that out.

WILLIAMS: OK.

BROWNE: But I think within the next year or two we're going to have a black pope.

WILLIAMS: Really? So what, if the pope dies and they elect--OK, it's got to be that one.

BROWNE: Yeah, and then after that, they're going to have a triumvirate of popes, which is something they've never had before.

WILLIAMS: Three popes in the same office?

BROWNE: Three popes, yeah.
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That was wrong. First, Pope John Paul II, whose health had declined for several years prior this television show, did not die in 2004. Secondly, there was no "black pope." Pope Benedict XVI was elected in 2005 and he is not "black."

In 2005, Browne wrote:
Browne's "Prophecy: What the Future Holds for You" page 145-146 said:
After Pope John Paul II passes, there will be only one more elected pope. He will be succeeded by what is essentially a triumvirate of popes, or a college of cardinals, who will share the responsibility of all previous popes.
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That was wrong. On 28 February 2013 Pope Benedict resigned (the first Pope to do that in about 600 years-- Browne failed to predict that). On 13 March 2013 Pope Francis was elected.

In 2008, Browne wrote:
Browne’s “End of Days” page 215 said:
Pope Benedict will be the last elected Pope. His reign will be succeeded by a new Catholic practice of selecting a college of cardinals, essentially a triumvirate of popes who will collectively share papal responsibilities.
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That was wrong. On 13 March 2013 Pope Francis, a single pope, was elected. That keeps with the tradition started nearly 2,000 years ago. Pope Francis is the first from the Americas and first non-European in 1,000 years, more things Browne failed to predict.


Sylvia Browne should stay with writing about the afterlives of famous people where verifiable facts can't get in the way of selling books.
 
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Questioninggeller said:
A new Pope has been elected.




Popes since 1978
• 16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005: Pope John Paul II
• 19 April 2005 to 28 February 2013: Pope Benedict XVI
• 13 March 2013 to present: Pope Francis


Sylvia Browne's predictions for the last decade
Browne said in 2003:


That was wrong. First, Pope John Paul II, whose health had declined for several years prior this television show, did not die in 2004. Secondly, there was no "black pope." Pope Benedict XVI was elected in 2005 and he is not "black."

In 2005, Browne wrote:


That was wrong. On 28 February 2013 Pope Benedict resigned (the first Pope to do that in about 600 years-- Browne failed to predict that). On 13 March 2013 Pope Francis was elected.

In 2008, Browne wrote:


That was wrong. On 13 March 2013 Pope Francis, a single pope, was elected. That keeps with the tradition started nearly 2,000 years ago. Pope Francis is the first from the Americas and first non-European in 1,000 years, more things Browne failed to predict.


Sylvia Browne should stay with writing about the afterlives of famous people where verifiable facts can't get in the way of selling books.
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Not so fast! You haven't offered proof Pope Francis I isn't three midgets (One of them black, but not the top one of course) standing on each others shoulders yet. :crowded:
 
The leader (aka Superior General) of the Jesuits is unofficially known as the Black Pope.

Adolfo_NicolásWP is currently the Superior General.

I sure this can be twisted appropriately to show Ms Brown(e) is psychic. Or sumptin'.

:cool:
 
Sylvia Browne's prediction about the Pope

RSLancastr said:
Yes, an article about Browne's "Pope Predictions" has been on my to-do list for a while.

I received an email from someone who said that the correspondant's daughter had attended one of Browne's performances when the Pope was on his deathbed.

At one point in the show, Browne suddenly stopped, made a "concentrating" face, and said "The Pope just died." The audience gasped.

The Pope didn't die for another two days.

Nice try, though.
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Ouch.
I hope you write the article, Rob.
No one better than you to do justice to the subject!
 
torifrog said:
Regarding the thread title ... has she ever actually been right?
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She has an 80% success rate.

Of course, that counts her predictions when ordering dinner.

"I WILL have a cheeseburger. I WILL have fries with that. I WILL have a diet coke to go with it. You WILL give me my change."
 
Personally, I think Browne should take the Randi challenge immediately. She has an accuracy way below random chance. Her ability to be utterly wrong is truly superhuman.
 
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