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.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Mar 13, 2013 10:44:27 am PDT #14645 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Maria - Mar 13, 2013 10:49:36 am PDT #14646 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
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.
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2013 10:50:10 am PDT #14647 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Yeah, they seem to have chosen the lesser evil.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2013 10:50:28 am PDT #14648 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If the Catholic Church re-focuses around helping the poor, I'll call it good. Not that I'm Catholic.
I didn't realize the Our Father and Hail Mary weren't standard things for a new pope to do until Cokie Roberts told me, so that's cool -- as she said, any little Catholic child could pray along with the pope.
billytea - Mar 13, 2013 10:50:40 am PDT #14649 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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 went with Francis of Assisi for my confirmation. Patron saint of animals.
Atropa - Mar 13, 2013 10:51:15 am PDT #14650 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
If the Catholic Church re-focuses around helping the poor, I'll call it good. Not that I'm Catholic.
Same here.
Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2013 10:52:01 am PDT #14651 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jesuits have a reputation for being scholarly, right? And Benedictines have the whole hospitality/welcoming thing? Is it Franciscans who are extra serious about poverty? Any other short hands? What have prior pontiffs tended to be?
My knowledge on this is very higgelty-pigglety.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2013 10:53:38 am PDT #14652 of 30001
brillig
I like observing the workings of millennia-old organizations and seeing how the ancient ways creep through.
Steph L. - Mar 13, 2013 10:54:05 am PDT #14653 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jesuits have a reputation for being scholarly, right?
Super-duperly so. (And, contrary to the new pope's reputation, they tend to live large. My brother's high school was run by Jesuits, and his joke was "I've seen their idea of poverty, so I don't want to know what they consider chastity.")
Maria - Mar 13, 2013 10:54:07 am PDT #14654 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
This guy is a scientist. Yeah, he's scholarly. Also more exposed than many other popes to liberation theology.