What if the Cardinals chose me, an atheist Jew? (but male) Could I be Pope?
I have found my answer:
I’ll do it!
Is Jesus (the Hebrew one) reckoned to be a bishop, for the purposes of taking over from the Christ pro tempor? Or would the cardinals have to make him one first?
What would happen if he turned it down?
This all just reminds me that I need to bring Angels and Demons back to the reading room at work.
What a stupid book that was. I’m glad I didn’t pay to read it.
He is risen. See long thread withstand subject.
What about the Pope’s nose?
I’d just like to inform the College of Cardinals that I am willing and ready to serve as Pope if they require it of me at any time in the future.
Are you sure you understand what “celibacy” means"?
(granted, some of the popes seemed to have been a little hazy on what it meant as well)
Well, that would be one of the first rules I’d change. Right after gay marriage and throwing out all the people who didn’t stop the child molestation thing.
Must you be circumcised to be Pope? Carnal wedding ring and all that?
“You fools left out an R! It’s supposed to say ‘celebrate’!”
No, but if Showtime has taught me anything, you need “duos testiculos et bene pedentes.” And they check.
Jesus was (and is) the Earthly incarnation of the Big KLahuna Himselkf. Alkl bishops, including archbishops, metropoitans, cardinalks, patriarchs, and popes, are acting in His stead. Catholics see the Pope as the successor of the leader (and foundation stone, in their view) of His twelve closest followers, to wit, Simon Peter.
It seems to me to be an odd question.
I don’t see how the Pope could possibly not be able to abdicate, as he has supreme authority when speaking ex cathedra. If the Pope says God says it’s okay for him to abdicate, it is okay. The Pope in his infallible role could not be disallowed anything, as he could change the rules.
That’s actually a pretty typical misunderstanding of papal infallibility. Whether or not a pope can resign is not a matter of doctrine or faith, which are the only matters the pope can proclaim infallibly.
Yes, it is. I don’t misunderstand it. Things are doctrine because the pope says they are. If the Pope says that something is something God told him to do or not to do, then the administrative rules have to be rewritten. The only other possibility is deposing the pope.
That’s not really the way it works. Although it is amusing that some of the same people who believe this also believe that John Paul I was murdered for daring to go after the Vatican Bank/Banco Ambrosiano scandal…how surprised he would have been that if he’d just declared the whole thing anathema, the whole Church would have fallen in behind him and he might have had a 30-year reign…
Yahbut only the triple entente is/are infallible, along with the pope whenever, godlike, he decides he is.
He walks and talks like a duck — especially when telling kings and prime ministers that their souls are doomed if they disobey him — despite his polite protestations otherwise for the sake of PR.
Well, then educate me as well. I was also under the impression that if the Pope decreed that priests did not have to practice celibacy, or that chewing tobacco was mandatory for all Catholics that his word was infallible and the same as if God himself spoke it.
Religious rants go elsewhere, GD or the Pit depending on level of vitriol vs. witnessing content. Religious questions in GQ are ones with a factual answer, e.g., “What do Mormons believe about the Trinity?” This is not to say that the Mormons have the Straight Dope (heh) but that there is a factual answer to the question, “What do they believe…” about any subject they have addressed.