Unlike the apocryphal “Cardinal Sicola” of the 1970s, there actually is, to my great delight, a Cardinal Scola on the shortlist for Pope, according to today’s NY Times:
Bliss!
Forgive me if I’ve totally mis-charactirized your religious affiliation, but you strike me as a recovering Catholic. Why does it matter who the next Pope is?
If it’s just idle curiousity and a mental exercise then I completely understand your curiousity. Given that the last guy “personally insulted” you and your family, what expectations do you realistically have of the next guy?
I may be completely wrong though. PJII did appologize to the jews for Vatican’s role during the holocaust and inquisition. Perhaps you and yours are next on the long list of people the RCC has offended. 
Whoosh?
Whoosh, with a twist of lime. 
Gotta be… 
Please. To explain. Somebody? 
Say the name over and over and think about soft drinks.
:o
:smack:
I’m such a dope!
So are you going to change your name to something, err, ah, other than quicksilver?
Cardinal Gozwiezel is also said to be a top contender for pope.
As well as Cardinal Sickle, Cardinal Ocatepetl and Cardinal Ensircumstance.
OK, now this one wooshes me. Maybe I’m pronouncing it wrong, but what’s the pun?!
All around the mulberry bush…
OK, that’s reeeeeely stretching it for a pun . . . I was saying, “Pope gozz-wee-zell?”
[John Belushi] Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, Pope Scola! [/JB]
you do know he’d change his name and be called by whatever he’d choose as a first name. The last one wasn’t Pope Karol w…whatever his last name was.
Yeah, but he’d always be “Pope Scola” to me.
Think he’d make fomer Pepsi VP Joan Crawford a saint? St. Joan the Divine? She’s the only “J.C.” I worship!
Let’s not forget two of the more obscure candidates, Cardinals Corn and Tart.
Oh yes, and Cardinal Ogigio.
I’ve tried searching around, with little success other than the usual three or four names bandied about—does anyone know of a definitive list of candidates, pending its existence?
Um, let me go get a comb, here, and I’ll be on my way to repost this elsewhere…
Oh sure. Rain on our fun with lousy facts.
If they would just elect someone who eschews all the trappings and luxuries of the office, maybe someone who has taken a vow of poverty, then everything would be Pope Ascetic.