So, I have a new Pope now, it's this guy. You'll remember from Angela's blog; and that MSNBC described him a the "enforcer of faith," but shy and gentle.
He recently (04/16/27) turned 78, so I wonder, how long Pope Benedict XVI will last? (JPII was 84.) I think, as evidenced by his age, the enclave went with a transitional Pope. It is weird to think of it like that, because I have gone my entire life with only JPII and now we have Benedict XVI, we could have another new Pope (I keep accidentally typing poop), in just a few years.
I wish him well and hope he is not too conservative for all of us "American Catholics."
New Pope Trivia:
1) First German Pope since the 11th century.
2) 265th Pope
3) We may have some hope, his name-sake was a moderate following Pius X
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Actually he's the 265th - who knew we had had so many? Maybe there were more transitional popes than John Paul II-types.
So I inverted two numbers. Jees, it is fixed now. And JPII is the third longest... so we are definitely used to shorter reigns.
This doesn't have anything to do with the Pope, but I wanted to say that Chip from Kate and Allie is a guest star on ER tonight! He's playing a legal aide to the woman on the hunger strike. He's all grown up.
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