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What's he trying to do with the Roman numerals at the end there?  I mean, I know it's 2028, which is when the next presidential election might be, but that's not what the numbers after Popes are.  Pope Trump would be Pope Trump I.

I think; I'm not Catholic, maybe there have been other Pope Trumps.

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49 minutes ago, miguelito said:

What's he trying to do with the Roman numerals at the end there?  I mean, I know it's 2028, which is when the next presidential election might be, but that's not what the numbers after Popes are.  Pope Trump would be Pope Trump I.

I think; I'm not Catholic, maybe there have been other Pope Trumps.

Make him Pope Alexander IX, rename Ivanka to Lucrezia.

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57 minutes ago, miguelito said:

What's he trying to do with the Roman numerals at the end there?  I mean, I know it's 2028, which is when the next presidential election might be, but that's not what the numbers after Popes are.  Pope Trump would be Pope Trump I.

I think; I'm not Catholic, maybe there have been other Pope Trumps.

The syphilis is getting to the brain. Don’t overthink. 

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2 hours ago, miguelito said:

What's he trying to do with the Roman numerals at the end there?  I mean, I know it's 2028, which is when the next presidential election might be, but that's not what the numbers after Popes are.  Pope Trump would be Pope Trump I.

I think; I'm not Catholic, maybe there have been other Pope Trumps.

Pope Dingus I

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Arrivederci Mass has started.
I am not Catholic, but I am Argentine (since 2013) and am going to miss my buddy in the white dress. 

I visited the Vatican a month into his papacy. We just stumbled into St Peters for a Mass at a certain time. It was presided over Pope Francis, he canonized three saints, and drove by us in the Popemobile. It was wild, like a soccer match with people chanting and bringing flags. The Eucharist was a mob scene with no queuing system. The whole thing ended up as a 4-hour ordeal, no shade from the sun, took almost an hour to get out of there.

Another CSB, on the Vatican Tour the day before we had a great guide who beelined us into the Sistine Chapel before it got crowded, we then circled back and did the normal tour and when we went thru again it was a mob scene. Towards the end of the tour i tried to find a bathroom and exited by mistake. The Swiss guard would not let me back in.
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23 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


I visited the Vatican a month into his papacy. We just stumbled into St Peters for a Mass at a certain time. It was presided over Pope Francis, he canonized three saints, and drove by us in the Popemobile. It was wild, like a soccer match with people chanting and bringing flags. The Eucharist was a mob scene with no queuing system. The whole thing ended up as a 4-hour ordeal, no shade from the sun, took almost an hour to get out of there.

Another CSB, on the Vatican Tour the day before we had a great guide who beelined us into the Sistine Chapel before it got crowded, we then circled back and did the normal tour and when we went thru again it was a mob scene. Towards the end of the tour i tried to find a bathroom and exited by mistake. The Swiss guard would not let me back in.

I had a great tour guide on a Monday evening in September with a company named “Rome Walks” back in 1997. It was kind of survey course that started at the Coliseum, passed the Forum, Trajan’s Column, the Trevi Fountain, the whole walk to the Vatican, and then dumped us at Piazza Navonna after sunset. 

Had the same guide the next day (Tuesday) for a Vatican Tour. Started outside St. Pete’s, went inside, then we broke for lunch and we were to meet outside the museum where she would give a quick preview before sending us into the Vatican Museum which ends with the Sistine Chapel passage. I don’t think that the ceiling had finished being renovated (EDIT: it wasn’t completed until 1999), so it wasn’t that crowded. 

Taking guided tours is highly recommended in big cities…

FULL DISCLOSURE: After having great guides in Munich & Rome (Berlin, Amsterdam, & Florence guides were mediocre), I ultimately became a tour guide in Buenos Aires from late 2008-2014 and ran a small tour company the last few years.

PS- Went to JP II’s Wednesday mass in St. Pete’s Square with an Italian girl from my hostel on that 1997 visit and so I saw that guy barely speak to the masses in person. 

PPS- I took so many tours into Buenos Aires’ Catedral Metropolitana, that was Cardinal Jorge Borgolio’s church, that I am sure that I saw the pope conduct a mass before he became pope. So I have probably seen two popes poping.

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1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

 

PPS- I took so many tours into Buenos Aires’ Catedral Metropolitana, that was Cardinal Jorge Borgolio’s church, that I am sure that I saw the pope conduct a mass before he became pope. So I have probably seen two popes poping.

Love “I saw X before anybody knew who he was” stories…

like that time I sent my then 4 year old down on the berm at Dell Diamond right before Yordan Alvarez absolutely annihilated a ball right towards us 

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13 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Love “I saw X before anybody knew who he was” stories…

like that time I sent my then 4 year old down on the berm at Dell Diamond right before Yordan Alvarez absolutely annihilated a ball right towards us 

Did I mention that I had been friends with TV’s original “The Bachelor” for over a decade before his TV stardom?

Oh, and he’s in our fantasy football league, so he attended the Texas @ Michigan game this past September, because we had that as our destination draft weekend.

😎🤘

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Are papal conclaves big events like the Super Bowl?  As in, there will be hookers flown in to handle all the business from visitors?  I mean, I guess the hookers would all have to be altar boys, but still....bidness is bidness.

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5 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Um, they don't pay the alterboys for their services.

Bottom line is, one suspects that the domestic supply at the Vatican will be insufficient to meet the increased need based in the influx of conclave participants.  Laws of supply and demand, yo.

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9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Bottom line is, one suspects that the domestic supply at the Vatican will be insufficient to meet the increased need based in the influx of conclave participants.  Laws of supply and demand, yo.

And good luck getting Trump to backoff his 150% tariffs on US altarboys. The vatican has been taking advantage of US buttholes for far too long! Tough year for a conclave.

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Pierbattista Pizzaballa: relatively young at 60, he was always destined for buzz with a name like that. Say it out loud, and you’ll be transported back to that time you fell in love while strolling Cinque Terre. Fluent in Hebrew (though not Arabic), he’s Patriarch of Jerusalem and has focused on interfaith dialogue, the plight of Christians, and de-escalation (he offered to swap himself for the Hamas hostages

^^ This guy has my vote (wait, it doesn't work like that?)

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5 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Pierbattista Pizzaballa: relatively young at 60, he was always destined for buzz with a name like that. Say it out loud, and you’ll be transported back to that time you fell in love while strolling Cinque Terre. Fluent in Hebrew (though not Arabic), he’s Patriarch of Jerusalem and has focused on interfaith dialogue, the plight of Christians, and de-escalation (he offered to swap himself for the Hamas hostages

^^ This guy has my vote (wait, it doesn't work like that?)

It’s going to be Trump.

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18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

The selection process to replace Pope Francis will be done in secrecy via voting. Deriving its name from the Latin term cum clave, meaning "with a key," the completion of the conclave is famously signaled by plumes of smoke rising over the Vatican

Heh, cum clave

So that's where the Cumby and Cumboni game from I suppose.

 

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

The selection process to replace Pope Francis will be done in secrecy via voting. Deriving its name from the Latin term cum clave, meaning "with a key," the completion of the conclave is famously signaled by plumes of smoke rising over the Vatican

Heh, cum clave

That combined with an article I read that estimated 75% of the bishops are gay….

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14 hours ago, Deej said:

Only 75%?

In 2019, The New York Times estimated that as many as 75 percent of Catholics priests may be gay

‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out

The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse. It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/it-is-not-a-closet-it-is-a-cage-gay-catholic-priests-speak-out.html

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On 5/5/2025 at 4:15 PM, Brisketexan said:

Bottom line is, one suspects that the domestic supply at the Vatican will be insufficient to meet the increased need based in the influx of conclave participants.  Laws of supply and demand, yo.

ISWYDT

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