Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Or Bono without his glasses?
I think everyone knows there are two Bonos, right? There is the original Bono with the tush and there is the tragic Bono/Yoko hybrid with the glasses.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is our the new Pope.
I can't have been the only person here who was rooting for Pope Scola.
No, you really didn't want Cardinal Scola to be pope. Way too conservative.
And there is also Sonny Bono.
Really, a Jesuit? That's pretty cool.
No, you really didn't want Cardinal Scola to be pope. Way too conservative.
Not that the now-Francis is anything to cheer about in that regard.
Really, a Jesuit? That's pretty cool.
Under the low bar of people opposed to homosexuality, gay rights, contraception and women's rights. I'll have to settle for "Could Be Worse."
I'm Presbyterian, I don't have much of a dog in this fight.
Granted, it'll affect billions of people and he's changing his name anyway...
So, he's going with Francis I
There's never been a Francis? Huh. Someone in Slate letters said its referencing Francis Assisi not Francis Xavier. All I know about those particularly names is that my father (who has the middle name Francis) went with Xavier over Assisi for his confirmation name because he was a 13 year old boy surrounded by 13 year old boys.
I'm guessing that's less of a problem at the Vatican. Hoping? Well, I wouldn't put any money on it.
Here's a profile NCR did on the new pope last week, when he was still just a contender: [link]
Nice to see that, while he's certainly not a proponent of liberation theology, he seems to walk the talk when it comes to the poor.
St. Francis of Assisi was a reformer. I'm hoping the selection of that name means the same thing for the new Pope.
Scola is even worse than Bergoglio, though neither of them have any leg to stand on in regards to what David said upthread. I'll take small incremental improvements.