New Pope Selected 915
Freshly Exhumed sends this quote from CBC:
"Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been selected as Pope of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He will be known as Pope Francis. He is the first Pope from the Americas. The 76-year-old was the runner-up to Benedict XVI during the last conclave. He is well-known for his humility and espouses church teachings on homosexuality, abortion and contraception. He has no Vatican experience."
oh cool.. (Score:5, Funny)
News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)
What is his favorite distro? views on FOSS?
lent (Score:2, Funny)
First time ive heard that the old pope gave up being the pope for lent. Wonder what the new guy has up his sleeve!
Don't Blame Me (Score:2, Funny)
Don't blame me, I voted for Father Guido Sarducci. Screw the rest of the conclave.
So what religion does he belong to? (Score:5, Funny)
linux, mac, vi, or emacs? :)
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So.... (Score:5, Funny)
So nothing important is going to change then? Or am i misreading that?
The World will continue to change, but the Catholic Church will not be leading those changes. Here is a car analogy: If the World was a car driving down the freeway of life, the Catholic Church would be a parking brake that was not fully disengaged, thus impeding progress slightly and emitting a bad smell.
Re:So.... (Score:5, Funny)
No word yet on papal shitting location. (Score:5, Funny)
The woods, however, are still the traditional choice.
Oh well. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:lent (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:5, Funny)
The church must have petered out.
Re:So what religion does he belong to? (Score:5, Funny)
In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:4, Funny)
Well, there have been a lot of peter problems in the church.
Re:oh cool.. (Score:5, Funny)
If the new Pope is not made of chocolate, and filled with marzipan, then I'm not interested.
Unless he has a jet pack. Or a robot named "Muad'Dib".
Re:oh cool.. (Score:3, Funny)
well I never saw that comming , All i head was they had elected the hand of God from Argentina.
But seriously Pope Diego Maradonna the first??
Re:So.... (Score:2, Funny)
That's funny, I always thought Buddha taught and followed the Noble Eightinch Path.
Re:News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)
With all the forks, how could FOSS be more Protestant?
The Mother Church clearly prefers a strictly Microsoft shop.
Re:So.... (Score:5, Funny)
So nothing important is going to change then? Or am i misreading that?
The World will continue to change, but the Catholic Church will not be leading those changes. Here is a car analogy: If the World was a car driving down the freeway of life, the Catholic Church would be a parking brake that was not fully disengaged, thus impeding progress slightly and emitting a bad smell.
To continue the car analogy and to point out the differences, while the Catholic Church may be wearing the parking brake out, the evangelical Christians are trying to throw the car in reverse. And all while they are in a fist fight with the Muslim fundamentalists (who are also looking for reverse) over who's hand will be on the shift lever. Meanwhile, the Quakers are pointing out that one should use the clutch when shifting gears and the Pastafarians are looking for a different car in which to ride.
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:5, Funny)
warning, NSFW for most workplaces, but an amusing Tim Minchin song about the pope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIorwtJbhE [youtube.com]
Re:News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)
He's religious and intolerant, so obviously his favorite OS is Emacs.
Re:oh cool.. (Score:5, Funny)
No, dummy, RTFS. Pope Francis.
Settle down, Francis.
Re:oh cool.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)
He's religious and intolerant, so obviously his favorite OS is Emacs.
He's religious and intolerant, so obviously his favorite OS is . . .
. . . the Spanish Inquisition . . . !
Honestly, I didn't expect it.
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:5, Funny)
Im not sure its entirely accurate to call Peter the "first pope". The office as such did not exist, and the specific role of "pope" was never acknowledged by Peter or anyone else at that time.
Well, there was this one guy (hint: his initials were J.C.) who said: "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church ..."
This was a pun because "Peter" means "rock" (JC was a funny guy). So if we followed biblical precedent, the next pope should have been ... Dwayne Johnson.
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:5, Funny)
or of that role being hereditary
That's something the papacy has generally avoided.
Re:oh cool.. (Score:5, Funny)
Don't understate the importance of this. I heard the new pope uses emacs instead of vim (because "my fingers learned that one on the dvorak keyboards in the seminary"). And yet, he prefers python3 over scheme. Runs it all on Mac OS 10.4 and won't upgrade to 10.8, because
I don't care if you don't see any geeky controversy here; the python3 thing is important. The new pope is saying fallible things on the Internet!
Re:Humility? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, you are condemning others. Yes, I am condemning you for that. I operate from a moral framework with more than a single axis of "condemnation=bad, anticondemnation=good," rather considering the whole network of impacts from who and/or what is being condemned (btw, I am a Christian).
I would not support you in repealing all government granted benefits of marriage, because that would be "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" --- I think there are great societal benefits to government-recognized marriage, but none that specifically require a male+female couple. Likewise, I do not think it would have been a good idea to fix Jim Crow era discriminatory voting laws by revoking everyone's right to vote.
Re:oh cool.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's getting the same coverage that a casting change in Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or any other long running fantasy series would get.
Re:oh cool.. (Score:5, Funny)
I was really hoping that he would call himself Pope Awesome. A little marketing never hurt. If I were Pope, I'd have to go with either taking the name Mobile, or possibly Oree.
Re:76? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 (Score:5, Funny)
I heard this guy is the logical choice, since who better than an Argentinian to offer sanctuary to a German with human rights abuse issues?