CNN says it was Assisi. And Francis was more about curing the sin of wealth than fixing the blessing of poverty.
Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca! No, wait, that’s Latatian . . .
Fractured Latin:
Conocere papa novum; Papa anticus similaris est.
The two important issues are:
- Contraception: there is a population explosion in the third world.
- Marriage of priests: In a few decades there are going to be extremely few priests left in the United States.
Does anyone see a change in these two issues?
Ecce novum culus, vetus culus idem est
I wouldn’t be too surprised to see married priests within a decade or two. Mind you, I wouldn’t be surprised to not see them, either, but it could plausibly happen. Contraception, though, has gotten tied to abortion in a lot of peoples’ minds, so I’d expect less movement there (at least from the hierarchy; the people seem to have mostly made up their minds already).
Posted on facebook.
Two, maybe. Not one. And even at two, I’d bet against it.
The present and recent past are easy to predict - the RCC already has married priests. Of course, they’re the ones who’ve converted from being Episcopalians.
This Pope will be as worthless as the last coupla Popes.
Definitely not 1. Businesses work to *increase *their install base.
Probably not 2. Europe already has empty churches and the Vatican has done nothing.
These are the two of the *last *three doctrinal changes that will be made (along with female clergy). Misogyny and sexual pathology are a profound, deeply rooted cancer in Roman Catholicism, going all the way back to the Church Fathers.
… that we know of.
I was using one of those translate things, it seems like the grammar is better as “… idem quod est”, but that screws up the nice meter. (Not sure why it gave me “culus” for “Pope”, but that is what I kept getting.)
It’s Latin for Cthlulhu
There isn’t apopulation explotion in Catholic-majority countries, they are all reducing their fertility rates. Also, undoing Humanae Vitae (the encyclical that formalized the church’s position on contraceptives)
Undoing it would break the church, she could no longer teach anything.
Married permanent deacons are already an option that few are taking; if we had enough of them and good to boot, then married priesthood in the Latin rite would be a natural.
I’m not catholic so the Pope doesn’t too much to me if at all. Unfair to Pope Benedict but to me he just looked sinister, unfair I know
This new guy was/is a Jesuit, meaning he had some involvement in education, which tends to center on young-ish males, so keep clear of the fan, folks.
They asked him if he would be willing to become Pope, and he replied, “Let me be Frank…”
Plus John Paul (remember him? the much beloved? the sweet, nice, let’s-make-him-a-saint-fast guy?) purged as much of the LT faction as he could and dead-ended those he couldn’t. This new one seems about as close as you could realistically have today, being by all signs much into the social gospel/economic justice aspect that has taken over from classic LT.
Xavier notwhitstanding, the majority of the body of the faithful have one very particular Saint’s picture in their minds when they hear “Francis”… and indeed if so that is one bar set stupendously high.
(BTW: The new Pope is Argentine AND Jesuit – Yow. If we thought those two bunches were insufferable before … 
OTOH the Jesuit part oughta get many a hack author’s creative juices flowing…)
Like someone else said, “that we know of”, but it may indeed be that just bringing in someone who was not already up to his neck in it at least gives some room to move.
But really, the man has barely had time to go to bed as Pope, and the next month will be taken up by his installation and the Easter festivities so I’d be surprised if it did not take months, before he provides any sign of what, if anything, he’s bringing that’s not more of the same.