The Cardinal from Boston is a Capuchin and wanders around in monk's robes when he's not in full dress for mass. The Italians adore him.
'A Hole in the World'
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.
were there non-European popes 1000 years ago
I don't know off the top of my head, but there might well have been Greek or Egyptian popes waay back before the Roman Empire split in two.
Contrary to popular belief, priests do not generally take a vow of poverty, unless they belong to an order that requires it.
But the Jesuits do, which is amusing in light of how well the Jesuits who educated my brother live.
help the Vatican Apostolic Library digitize the entire catalogue of manuscripts and incunabula.
Glurble.
I think there may have been Near Eastern popes.
Greeks aren't European?
There are the Greeks in Greece, then there were the Greeks in Turkey and its environs. Hellenistic, I guess.
According to that bastion of Catholic knowledge, The Exorcist, the Jesuits also drink a lot.
Man, I loved Father Karras. He was even angstier than the guy from The Thorn Birds.
Greeks aren't European?
I guess they are, I just tend to think of Greece as more mid-East than Europe. Huh. The brain is a weird thing.
According to that bastion of Catholic knowledge, The Exorcist, the Jesuits also drink a lot.
This has also been my experience. Jesuits roll deep.
I just hope he did not collaborate with the Argentinian government when they were disappearing people.
He was the Jesuit Provicial for Argentina from 1973 to 1979 which is during the period of the Dirty war and has, in fact, been accuses of collaborating.