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Conclave to Elect Next Pope Begins

Smoke on the Tiber.

Morrissey mentions that left-wing anti-catholic church officials are aghast about the impact that African cardinals may have in the selection process, because African cardinals, unlike the left-wing fake Catholics infesting the church, aren't so keen on beatifying all gays as saints.

From the National Catholic Register:

Cardinal Czerny Causes Furor With Comments on a Potential African Pope

Pope Francis' former point man on migrants has drawn criticism with comments in the context of the African continent being deeply opposed to the LGBTQ agenda.


VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis' former point man on migrants has drawn criticism by saying in an article published Sunday that some African cardinals make him "shudder" and that he believes "conservatives" are calling for an African pope to further their agenda.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Jesuit who served as prefect at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in the last years of Pope Francis' pontificate, made the derisive comments to The New York Times in the context of the African continent being deeply opposed to the LGBTQ agenda.

"I can think of some African cardinals -- they make me shudder," Cardinal Czerny said in the article published May 4. When the newspaper asked whether conservative Catholics were rallying behind an African pope as a "Trojan horse" to further their agenda, Cardinal Czerny replied: "Certainly, certainly, certainly, and that's why it's so, so, so stupid to say things like Africa's time has come."

...

He said he becomes "agitated" when people say it is time for an American, African, or "South Islander" pope. "I think that is so stupid," he opined. "It's time for the successor of Peter for 2025." The priority, he added, "is evangelization; to bring the Gospel to society in season and out of season; to bring the Gospel to all of creation."

The Czech-born Canadian cardinal is currently now unreachable for comment, as he is taking part in the conclave.

His comments came ahead of remarks made by Bishop Robert Barron, founder of the Word on Fire Catholic media ministry, who, by contrast, believes geography is important in relation to the papacy, especially when it comes to Africa.

He explained to EWTN's Colm Flynn on May 5 that the Church is flourishing in Africa, especially in Nigeria, where around 94% of Catholics go to Mass, vocations are booming, and the Church is facing persecution.

"Why are we so preoccupied with the Church in Germany, where the Church is kind of withering on the vine?" Bishop Barron asked. "Why don't we study the Nigerian Church, and see what they're doing, right, and let's imitate it?"

"So, yes, I think it might be the African moment," the bishop continued. "And I do think in the synods during the Francis years, the Africans found their voice in a fresh way."

Cardinal Czerny's comments are likely to embolden African cardinals who have never welcomed such animosity to their traditional stances on moral issues, especially when it comes to homosexuality.

This became clear during the furor over Fiducia Supplicans, the 2023 declaration allowing non-liturgical blessings of same-sex couples, when Africa's Catholic bishops rejected the Vatican document.

It was also readily apparent in 2014, when, in the context of homosexuality being a taboo in Africa, German Cardinal Walter Kasper caused uproar and provoked accusations of racism when he said (and then falsely denied) that Africans should not tell the Church in the West "too much what to do" regarding homosexuality and other such issues currently acceptable in secular Western culture.

See the link to Ed Morrissey for more.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM




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1 Morrissey mentions that left-wing anti-catholic church officials are aghast about the impact that African cardinals may have in the selection process, because African cardinals, unlike the left-wing fake Catholics infesting the church, aren't so keen on beatifying all gays as saints.

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If they hold together as a block...

The gay ones, and the gay-friendly ones will have to act like Labour and the Conservative Party taking out Reform.

Except it'll be racist this time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

2 Smoke on the Water

https://youtu.be/Q2FzZSBD5LE

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 03:21 PM (i24o9)

3 We would prefer a Christian Pope to a Jesuit.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2025 03:21 PM (MMp6W)

4 @KJTorrance
·
12m
Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel—no new pope today.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:22 PM (mlg/3)

5 Need a meme pf the doors closing for whenever someone tries to argue with me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:22 PM (rT96s)

6 Cool doors.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (uCjyK)

7 The conclave has sent a message "More altar boys please"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (vmkyp)

8 5 Need a meme pf the doors closing for whenever someone tries to argue with me
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:22 PM (rT96s)

=====

No you don't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

9 Did Cardinal Michael Czerny start hissing and smoking when some of those African bishops started to chant, "Our father, who art in heaven..."?

Posted by: Another Anon at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (4h45B)

10 Willowed:

Columbia University lays off 180 staff after Federal Grant revocations.

And they thought with all the deportations there would be no one left to pick vegetables.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (xt/H7)

11 My late mother was a nun for 14 years.

A lot of her nun friends didn't care much for the last Pope.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (jvJvP)

12 Put a chick in it and make her gay!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at May 07, 2025 03:23 PM (l3YAf)

13
I suggest a Pit Of Vipers to select the next pope.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:24 PM (57wKv)

14 We had flowers that grew outside the house when I was a little kid that my parents called "pope's noses." I am not even sure that was their real name

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:24 PM (2VST1)

15 Faggots vs Africans


And fuck Jesuits.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:24 PM (6Kw5g)

16 I don't believe it until I see the "so it begins" guy post...

Posted by: Inogame at May 07, 2025 03:24 PM (53oGX)

17 ABC News managed to use the word "diverse" . Drink!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (vmkyp)

18 No you don't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla

*seagull death glare*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (rT96s)

19 Faggots vs Africans


And fuck Jesuits.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:24 PM (6Kw5g)

Africans are -320 in that one.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (lpgaA)

20
They should put the names in hat and be done with it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (3ek7K)

21 Extra omnes.

Latin for "Bitches leave", right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (VoAdT)

22 It's kinda weird that there's never been an Irish pope.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

23
Simple: throw all these Cardinals into a Pit Of Vipers and whoever can use the bodies of his fellow cardinals as a ladder to climb out first is the new pope!

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (57wKv)

24 To me the word conclave sounds ominous. Sort of like the pentaveret.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (e5NfL)

25 Africans are -320 in that one.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (lpgaA)

They did give them AIDS, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (VoAdT)

26 Well if they ask me to be Pope I'm going to decline.

Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (cIOlQ)

27 doors to the Sistine Chapel are now closed

Hey, I ordered a pizza!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 07, 2025 03:26 PM (w4rYw)

28 20
They should put the names in hat and be done with it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (3ek7K)

That would be an unbelievably big number since any Baptized male can be Pope...might need a bigger hat...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 07, 2025 03:26 PM (tOcjL)

29 I want an African Pope. Just to own the homos.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:26 PM (6Kw5g)

30 It was also readily apparent in 2014, when, in the context of homosexuality being a taboo in Africa, German Cardinal Walter Kasper caused uproar and provoked accusations of racism when he said (and then falsely denied) that Africans should not tell the Church in the West "too much what to do" regarding homosexuality and other such issues currently acceptable in secular Western culture.

Translation: the Darkies need to know their place.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2025 03:26 PM (s8j++)

31
We had flowers that grew outside the house when I was a little kid that my parents called "pope's noses." I am not even sure that was their real name
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

==============

"Pope's nose" is also a piece on a cooked bird.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 03:26 PM (U7Gpi)

32 Well if they ask me to be Pope I'm going to decline.
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (cIOlQ)

Pope goes the Weasel?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2025 03:26 PM (VoAdT)

33 Dicentra?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2025 03:27 PM (VoAdT)

34 I'll do it, but they won't like it. Also, boobs.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:27 PM (6Kw5g)

35
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Jesuit

__________

Not this guy in particular. We learned everything we needed to know about the Jebbies from the last guy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 03:27 PM (QnmlO)

36 Conclave to Elect Next Pope Begins
......

The excitement! The drama! The secrecy!

Posted by: wth at May 07, 2025 03:27 PM (v0R5T)

37 should put the names in hat

A festive little hat!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 07, 2025 03:27 PM (w4rYw)

38
Wasn't there a dextrosphere blogger a long time ago called "Pope Hat?"

Or am I thinking of a twitter account?

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (57wKv)

39 I’ll bet money the next pope is another insidious leftwing commie dope-cope-pope who cares more about filthy migrants and fake climate hysteria than he does the Catholic Church. I think the church is irredeemably corrupted and poisoned by commie trope. I don’t think it can fix itself. I hope I’m wrong.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (aeiyZ)

40 Yeah, you know what? Don't care. Take a stroll down memory lane at all the "OUTRAGE!!!!" flying out of the Vatican the moment USAID was cut and smothered.

The hyperbole was, well, hyperbolic. "Millions will die." "This is sinful!!!" Let's not forget that it coincides with a hiring freeze at the Vatican, and the freeze of pension funds. Coincidence I'm sure. Catholic Relief Funds had to layoff 50% of their staff.

So, yeah, don't care for Catholic politics. They were on the take like most of the rest of the world....only they were taking credit for any good that eventually (or accidentally) happened. No mention of where those funds came from.

I'm with whomever wanted to see orange smoke come out of the Vatican in the last thread...just because I'm a heathen.

Posted by: Orson at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (dIske)

41
ABC News managed to use the word "diverse" . Drink!
Posted by: Smell the Glove

============

"Managed to"? I'd be shocked if they managed not to. But it's a drinking word for sure!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (U7Gpi)

42 Unlike our Republican House, which prefers not to vote on anything. Messes with their four day weekends.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (gKWVE)

43
Sooth,

That name is familiar to me but I can't remember why.

Posted by: four seasons at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

44 Someone earlier suggested that they should sneak something into the chimney that makes orange smoke. It would look like the end of Kingsmen among the lefties.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (s8j++)

45 Also, boobs.
Posted by: Dagny

You know the rule.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

46
dextro: right

sinister: left

-osphere: osphere

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (57wKv)

47 21 Extra omnes.

Latin for "Bitches leave", right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

My doggeh likes Extra Nomnoms

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (rT96s)

48 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

49 When the newspaper asked whether conservative Catholics were rallying behind an African pope as a "Trojan horse" to further their agenda..

--

Oh no, not that! Certainly not that! Furthering their agenda, obviously used in such derisive terms, must not apply to his wish for the direction of the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (qBdHI)

50 Pope.

Pope.

Pope.

Pope of Rome.

Pope.

Pope.

Pope of Rome.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (6YdsJ)

51 I’ll bet money the next pope is another insidious leftwing commie dope-cope-pope who cares more about filthy migrants and fake climate hysteria than he does the Catholic Church. I think the church is irredeemably corrupted and poisoned by commie trope. I don’t think it can fix itself. I hope I’m wrong.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (aeiyZ)

If they follow the old "fat pope, skinny pope" trope it's gonna be an iron ribbed doctrinaire catholic.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (lpgaA)

52 ABC News managed to use the word "diverse" . Drink!
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (vmkyp)

Di Verse is not the same as dat verse!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (VNX3d)

53 Looka in da pizza.

Posted by: Father Guido Sarducci at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (FhXTo)

54 Wasn't there a dextrosphere blogger a long time ago called "Pope Hat?"

Or am I thinking of a twitter account?

Twitter but I remember blocking him for pissing me off.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (6Kw5g)

55 I enjoyed watching the seagulls.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (DRSnL)

56 He's the groove
He's the man
He's the Pope in the Vatican

Snuky Tate in the groove:

youtu.be/c3jYacURQGU?

(better sound)


youtu.be/w2G_MwJSmWg?

(better video)

Posted by: fd at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (vFG9F)

57 ABC News managed to use the word "diverse" . Drink!
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Done!

Tough week.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (jvJvP)

58 Just In:
Federal Judge orders the Cardinals to select a black, disabled lesbian Muslim as Pope, ruling that "all men are created equal" means the Catholic Church must choose for maximum diversity and marginalized communities will suffer irreparable harm otherwise.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (bw0ep)

59 Well, we know Czerny's on the approved side of the aisle since he's yet to be denounced for saying something that even remotely smells like racism.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 07, 2025 03:29 PM (oCS0o)

60 They're watching porn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

61 >> Wasn't there a dextrosphere blogger a long time ago called "Pope Hat?"

PopeHat was a lefty who got a bad case of TDS.

Posted by: ClarkHat is best Hat at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (l3YAf)

62
Between you and me, I have it on good authority that Israel will be choosing the next pope.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (57wKv)

63 "I can think of some African cardinals -- they make me shudder," Cardinal Czerny said
______

Why are you gay?

Posted by: African Interviewer at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (Dv3i1)

64 Well if they ask me to be Pope I'm going to decline.

I'll take it just for the hat but they're not gonna like me taking the theology back to Augustine

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (2VST1)

65 I'll do it, but they won't like it. Also, boobs.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:27 PM (6Kw5g)

You're hired.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (i24o9)

66 Posted by: Jordan61

Jordan, good to see you! You haven't been around here much lately, have you?

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

67 MTG called for censure of Ilhan Omar and called her a foreign agent for Somalia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

68 I’ll bet money the next pope is another insidious leftwing commie dope-cope-pope who cares more about filthy migrants and fake climate hysteria than he does the Catholic Church. I think the church is irredeemably corrupted and poisoned by commie trope. I don’t think it can fix itself. I hope I’m wrong.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM


The catholic church has a history of being broken. 1054 and 1387 come to mind. Two popes duking it out east vs. west.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (e5NfL)

69 I want an African Pope. Just to own the homos.
Posted by: Dagny
.......

and to pimp out the Popemobile.

Posted by: wth at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

70 Wasn't there a dextrosphere blogger a long time ago called "Pope Hat?"
------
I think PopeHat lost his mind when Trump was elected the first time.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (6YdsJ)

71 Oh no, not that! Certainly not that! Furthering their agenda, obviously used in such derisive terms, must not apply to his wish for the direction of the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Right, the horror.
We need another gay marxist that is clueless about doctrine and kisses Chinese climate change ass

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (6Kw5g)

72 Between you and me, I have it on good authority that Israel will be choosing the next pope.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:30 PM (57wKv)

If it's the Knesset, we're boned.

Straight up plebiscite, there may be hope.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (VoAdT)

73 What did you guys do to Jordan61?

Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (cIOlQ)

74 On that point of any Baptized male, if we can ever get an American pope...Bishop Barron would be the kind of Pope that this era could use.

Carlo Acutis was the 1st millenial in line to be saint before Francis passed...he was a gifted teen of the cyberworld. Would it not be perfect to have the priest who also adapted so well to it end up finishing his sainthood process?

See, why dream with the likely? It won't be an African, it won't be Bishop Barron - but setting a precedent we can go back to more wide choices would be great...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (tOcjL)

75 Jordan, good to see you! You haven't been around here much lately, have you?
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

=====

Hey, Bulg! No, unfortunately. My new job keeps me really busy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)

76 Wasn't there a dextrosphere blogger a long time ago called "Pope Hat?"
---
Yes.

IIRC, he has become a deranged anti-Trumper that makes Keif Obberman look sober and sane.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (bw0ep)

77 Did I hear correctly that one of the candidates is literally "Peter of Rome"? I was half paying attention to Fox's coverage during lunch.

Posted by: Methos at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (Dnobf)

78 Between you and me, I have it on good authority that Israel will be choosing the next pope.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Well, it did provide the first one.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (77rzZ)

79
Notice nobody gives a damn about who's going to be the next moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (QnmlO)

80 What did the scorpion say, again?

@edenyadegar
RIGHT NOW AT COLUMBIA: Masked anti-Israel students just broke into the library during finals week.

Columbia Public Safety unsuccessfully attempted to stop them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (mlg/3)

81 PopeHat was a lefty who got a bad case of TDS.

He ran off into the weeds hand in hand with Allahpundit

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (2VST1)

82
I mean, it's a known secret, yes? -- that the Jews control the Vatican.

Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (57wKv)

83 We would prefer a Christian Pope to a Jesuit.
Posted by: Oglebay

Totally agree.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (olkOV)

84 When the newspaper asked whether conservative Catholics were rallying behind an African pope as a "Trojan horse" to further their agenda..
__________________

Whereas the leftist Catholics were rallying behind others who will further the mainstreaming of perversion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:32 PM (YqDXo)

85 "This became clear during the furor over Fiducia Supplicans, the 2023 declaration allowing non-liturgical blessings of same-sex couples, when Africa's Catholic bishops rejected the Vatican document."

==========

I hope the next Pope is a black guy saying gays are going to burn in hell.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 07, 2025 03:33 PM (9mw3J)

86 When the cardinals decide to just get high instead of electing a new pontiff, and the Maui Wowie smoke drifts out of the conclave window, the people in Vatican Square eagerly anticipating the results will look up, sniff, and say, enthusiastic at first, but disappointed in the end,

"Hope -- Pope? Nope -- dope. *Mope*."

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 03:33 PM (pMi6S)

87 I’ll bet money the next pope is another insidious leftwing commie dope-cope-pope who cares more about filthy migrants and fake climate hysteria than he does the Catholic Church

Guaranteed. 100%. The only delay is finding a non-white guy who goes along with this plan.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:33 PM (2VST1)

88
I think PopeHat lost his mind when Trump was elected the first time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious


Happened to another hat, too.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (63Dwl)

89 Columbia Public Safety unsuccessfully attempted to stop them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They need big nets

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (rT96s)

90 Hey, Bulg! No, unfortunately. My new job keeps me really busy.
Posted by: Jordan61

Well, it must take a while to supply all the employees with bacon.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

91 When the cardinals decide to just get high instead of electing a new pontiff, and the Maui Wowie smoke drifts out of the conclave window, the people in Vatican Square eagerly anticipating the results will look up, sniff, and say, enthusiastic at first, but disappointed in the end,

"Hope -- Pope? Nope -- dope. *Mope*."

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 03:33 PM (pMi6S)

We wuz gonna choose the new Pope, but then we got high.

Posted by: Conclavians at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (i24o9)

92 The cardinal *might* have a point: They "diversified" last time with a South American instead of a European, and look where that got them. (Yes, I know, Frankie was a Jesuit and that was probably the bigger problem.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, observing as a Protestant at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (Wt5PA)

93 What did you guys do to Jordan61?
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (cIOlQ)



Nothing. Maybe that's why she abandoned us. She wanted us to do something.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

94 82
I mean, it's a known secret, yes? -- that the Jews control the Vatican.
-------------
What don't the Jews control?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (pZ64F)

95 I like the idea of them releasing orange smoke to tweak everyone someone suggested this morning...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (VE6XX)

96 I think PopeHat lost his mind when Trump was elected the first time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Happened to another hat, too.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (63Dwl)

The one I'm still getting weekly emails from?

Posted by: Methos at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (Dnobf)

97 We need another gay marxist that is clueless about doctrine and kisses Chinese climate change ass

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (6Kw5g)
_______________

WWKMD? What would Karl Marx do?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

98 92 The cardinal *might* have a point: They "diversified" last time with a South American instead of a European, and look where that got them. (Yes, I know, Frankie was a Jesuit and that was probably the bigger problem.)
Posted by: pookysgirl, observing as a Protestant at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (Wt5PA)

=======

A South American...born to Italian parents who had emigrated to Argentina a few years before Francis' birth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

99 I mean, it's a known secret, yes? -- that the Jews control the Vatican.


What impresses me is that these Joo dudes number like fifteen million and somehow they manage to run everything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (2VST1)

100 I think PopeHat lost his mind when Trump was elected the first time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious



He should've changed his name to Asshat a long time ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

101 It's not a real Pope Picking until they take the roof off.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (/lPRQ)

102
He's the Pope
He aint no dope

Yall are doing yourself a disservice if you don't check out my link at #56.

Posted by: fd at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (vFG9F)

103 To me the word conclave sounds ominous. Sort of like the pentaveret.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (e5NfL)

It just sounds more impressive than staff meeting.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

104 I mean, it's a known secret, yes? -- that the Jews control the Vatican.
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What don't the Jews control?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (pZ64F)

Half of Jerusalem?

Posted by: Methos at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (Dnobf)

105 Look! Another idiot comment! More Cardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (QSrLX)

106 Well if they ask me to be Pope I'm going to decline.
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (cIOlQ)

Okay, fine! I will do it. I'm not Catholic, a priest, or male but I declare myself to be the Pope. Pope Mayhem has a certain je ne sais quoi to it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (2J/Lj)

107 -------------
What don't the Jews control?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (pZ64F)



Democrats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

108 Wasn't there a dextrosphere blogger a long time ago called "Pope Hat?"

Or am I thinking of a twitter account?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 07, 2025 03:28 PM (57wKv)
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Ken White. Lawyer from LA. TDS-suffering imbecile that was wrong about everything. I wouldn’t trust him to represent my dick in a lawsuit against my balls.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (aeiyZ)

109 @79 the Jello salad went bad?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (vmkyp)

110 >> When the newspaper asked whether conservative Catholics were rallying behind an African pope as a "Trojan horse" to further their agenda, Cardinal Czerny replied: "Certainly, certainly, certainly

Trojan horse? I thought Catholics were supposed to be against birth control?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (l3YAf)

111 Catholics don't have a problem with gays, we have an issue with gay sex.

Francis said they could bless gays, but dude, you can bless dogs and goldfish and houses.

But this shit got the faggotry all excited. Nope.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (6Kw5g)

112 What did you guys do to Jordan61?
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (cIOlQ)


Nothing. Maybe that's why she abandoned us. She wanted us to do something.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

You know what you did.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

113 The leftist cardinals pushing the LGBTQ+ agenda want a Lavender Pope, but their opponents trying to elect a conservative African will vote for a Taupe Pope.

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (pMi6S)

114 Columbia Public Safety unsuccessfully attempted to stop them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They need big nets

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:34 PM (rT96s)
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Bigger nightsticks. And permission to use them freely.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (YqDXo)

115 Between you and me, I have it on good authority that Israel will be choosing the next pope.
Posted by: Soothsayer

The Jews traded a player to the Catholics for a player to be named later.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (L/fGl)

116 I don't think this is very suspenseful. There's no room for any surprises, like in our political hierarchy.

It's 133 cardinals at the top of a very large, very corrupt system to choose the new boss.

Let's say we left it to the US Senate + 33 other Top Men, - let's say, a mixture of IC officials, defense contractors, and business leaders - to elect the President For Life. What do you think you'd get? Not a Trump, that's for sure.

These fellows are going to give Catholics a terrible Pope. The only surprise will be if the new guy doesn't actually have horns and a tail.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (BI5O2)

117 Notice nobody gives a damn about who's going to be the next moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We're God's Frozen People. All the candidates sit in a circle scowling at each other. The one who can last the longest without leaving to pee is the winner.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

118 We wuz gonna choose the new Pope, but then we got high.

Obligatory -
https://tinyurl.com/2uetaw3h

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (Dv3i1)

119 93 What did you guys do to Jordan61?
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:31 PM (cIOlQ)


Nothing. Maybe that's why she abandoned us. She wanted us to do something.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Can't believe she'd just kick us to the curb like that!

Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (cIOlQ)

120 26 Well if they ask me to be Pope I'm going to decline.
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:25 PM (cIOlQ)



Weasel, ye will be thy rock upon which thine fundamentals will be built.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (5SvjB)

121 Hoping for a Christian to get in this time. A Catholic Christian would please me greatly. The last guy I really did not like.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (67lvg)

122 On a serious note the Litany of the Saints as the cardinals walked into the chapel was beautiful.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (rT96s)

123 The Adams County sheriff's office is going to raid Afroman's house again to search his CD collection for the new pope.

https://tinyurl.com/57yyjab8

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (MMp6W)

124 Just got off the phone with the Vatican. They wanted to know if I wanted to throw my hat in the ring. I said let me get back to ya, I got a guy on the other line about some whitewalls.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (2UnvF)

125 =====

You know what you did.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)



But that was LAST SUMMER!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

126 Francis said they could bless gays, but dude, you can bless dogs and goldfish and houses.

Yeah that was a big nothingburger, he didn't say homosexuality wasn't a sin or you can marry two dudes. Priests will bless a ship, they bless entire crowds of people who may or may not be Christians.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:38 PM (2VST1)

127 124 Just got off the phone with the Vatican. They wanted to know if I wanted to throw my hat in the ring. I said let me get back to ya, I got a guy on the other line about some whitewalls.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (2UnvF)

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Spoiler: It was La Pizzeria Vaticani for a garbage boy post.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

128 Pope Peter II

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 07, 2025 03:38 PM (ML8rW)

129 Guaranteed. 100%. The only delay is finding a non-white guy who goes along with this plan.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:33 PM (2VST1)

We will see. They used JPII to crush the commies.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:38 PM (8avO+)

130 You know what you did.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Sponge: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 03:38 PM (i24o9)

131
On a serious note the Litany of the Saints as the cardinals walked into the chapel was beautiful.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (rT96s)

___________

I just started saying the Litany of Loreto every day. Very refreshing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (QnmlO)

132

De eat da poo-poo!

Posted by: Card. Jo Uganda at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (rTz63)

133 Taupe Pope.
Posted by: zombie

What's a taupe pope?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (rT96s)

134 -----
Can't believe she'd just kick us to the curb like that!
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (cIOlQ)



We're the expendables.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

135 Ken White. Lawyer from LA. TDS-suffering imbecile that was wrong about everything. I wouldn’t trust him to represent my dick in a lawsuit against my balls.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (aeiyZ)
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I'll probably regret this, but why would your dick sue your balls?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (6YdsJ)

136 Building it back better!

Only 31 Rebuilding Permits Approved to Rebuild LA From Palisades Fire

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (L/fGl)

137 >> The Jews traded a player to the Catholics for a player to be named later.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (L/fGl)

Prots have already stolen two of the Jews’ three SCOTUS seats.

Next they’ll come for one of our six.

Posted by: Catholics at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (l3YAf)

138 The Jews traded a player to the Catholics for a player to be named later.

Given that Hank Greenberg was the last great Jewish athlete, I think they won that trade.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

139 We're the expendables.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
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*brohug*

Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (cIOlQ)

140 I wouldn’t trust him to represent my dick in a lawsuit against my balls.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (aeiyZ)

why would your dick be suing your balls?

Oh, I get it -- you're going to the Court seeking relief.

...Maybe a writ of mandamus IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (uCjyK)

141 So white smoke is a white guy, black smoke is a black guy. Have I got that right?

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (RxTC7)

142 Time for a little Clement the XlV action?

Posted by: MkY at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (cPGH3)

143 Hoping for a Christian to get in this time. A Catholic Christian would please me greatly. The last guy I really did not like.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (67lvg)

Among his other failings is that it's a sin to open your mouth and say stupid things about politics when it won't make a difference.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (8avO+)

144 141 So white smoke is a white guy, black smoke is a black guy. Have I got that right?
Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (RxTC7)

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And orange smoke means Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

145 I'm not a Catholic, but my advice to the RCC in picking a Pope this time to try and find one that is actually a Christian not another Junta Thug.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)

146 I'll probably regret this, but why would your dick sue your balls?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (6YdsJ)

Not sure, but the entanglement was probably pretty hairy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (i24o9)

147 Out: "Upon this rock I will build my church."
In: "Upon this cock I will build my bathhouse."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

148 133 Taupe Pope.
Posted by: zombie

What's a taupe pope?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport


A Pope with taupe skin color.

("Taupe" is a brownish-gray color, derived from the color of mole fur, since "taupe" means "mole" in French.)

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (pMi6S)

149 Who cares about the Pope guy? He's just gonna lose to Lee like all the other Union generals.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)

150 CBC news is covering this extensively.

Without bursting into flames.

Sadly.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (jvJvP)

151 Ken White. Lawyer from LA. TDS-suffering imbecile that was wrong about everything. I wouldn’t trust him to represent my dick in a lawsuit against my balls.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (aeiyZ)
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I'll probably regret this, but why would your dick sue your balls?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (6YdsJ)
——-

[smirks]
—- Big Balls

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (aeiyZ)

152 Given that Hank Greenberg was the last great Jewish athlete, I think they won that trade.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

I gotta go Shawne green. Woulda been a HoFer til injuries derailed his career.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (lpgaA)

153 The Jews traded a player to the Catholics for a player to be named later.

Given that Hank Greenberg was the last great Jewish athlete, I think they won that trade.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

Sandy Koufax.

Haven't kept up with it to know if there have been more since.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (8avO+)

154 C'mon, TJM, you didn't get the reference?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (2UnvF)

155 Hispanic Pope: chop the Popemobile
Black Pope: pimp the Popemobile
Italian Pope: enter it in the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix

Posted by: wth at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

156 133 Taupe Pope.
Posted by: zombie

What's a taupe pope?
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Not quite as nice as a Mauve Pope.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (pZ64F)

157 I'm sure it's a misunderstanding, they actually meant to do it to Jordan60

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (vmkyp)

158 "We would prefer a Christian Pope to a Jesuit"

I expect St Ignatius Loyola wouldn't be on board with celebrating homosexuality. And approval of gay marriage either, but then he wasn't a liberation theologian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (42Vb+)

159 Who cares about the Pope guy? He's just gonna lose to Lee like all the other Union generals.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)

I suppose you don't care a pinch of Owl Dung about Pope then?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)

160 154 C'mon, TJM, you didn't get the reference?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (2UnvF)

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No.

I didn't get it.

I never get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

161 Building it back better!

Only 31 Rebuilding Permits Approved to Rebuild LA From Palisades Fire

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (L/fGl)
__________________

The rebuilding is gonna take some time.

Attagirl, Karen!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

162 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (2VST1)

163 Ken White. Lawyer from LA. TDS-suffering imbecile that was wrong about everything. I wouldn’t trust him to represent my dick in a lawsuit against my balls.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (aeiyZ)
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I'll probably regret this, but why would your dick sue your balls?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (6YdsJ)
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It's always tough when your genitals have a falling out...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (7fElN)

164 I expect St Ignatius Loyola wouldn't be on board with celebrating homosexuality. And approval of gay marriage either, but then he wasn't a liberation theologian.
____

I'm assuming the OG Jesuits might be embarrassed by the current crop of Jesuits

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

165 The new black tranny atheist pope is gonna be lit!

Posted by: Unbelievable at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (MTz2u)

166 I’m not weighing in until I hear what Father Guido Sarduchi has to say.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (6TlG5)

167 "Africa's Catholic bishops rejected the Vatican document."

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Watching real, devout Catholics like Nancy Pelosi, Ted Lieu, and Kathy Hotchul lash out at a black pope would be glorious.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (9mw3J)

168 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.

I think this was a mistake.

If they wanted to make a statue of Big Mike it needs a bigger bulge in the groin.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)

169 Fetterman Responds to NY Mag Hit Piece

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"Hulk smash"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (L/fGl)

170 C'mon, TJM, you didn't get the reference?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (2UnvF)

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I got it, if it makes you feel better.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (DRSnL)

171
The new black tranny atheist pope is gonna be lit!
Posted by: Unbelievable at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (MTz2u)

__________

No, that's the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (QnmlO)

172 Rainbow smoke means rainbow pope.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (63Dwl)

173 135 Ken White. Lawyer from LA. TDS-suffering imbecile that was wrong about everything. I wouldn’t trust him to represent my dick in a lawsuit against my balls.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (aeiyZ)
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I'll probably regret this, but why would your dick sue your balls?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (6YdsJ)

Dick v. Balls was a nuisance suit heard in the supreme court of New York (trial court despite the name), resulted in a hung jury.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (UGyV5)

174 Who cares about the Pope guy? He's just gonna lose to Lee like all the other Union generals.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)
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They gave us John Pope, our patience to tax, hurrah, hurrah!
They gave us John Pope, our patience to tax, hurrah, hurrah!
They gave us John Pope, our patience to tax,
He said in the West he'd seen nought but gray backs
And we'll all drink stone blind
Johnny, fill up the bowl.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (6YdsJ)

175 Cardinal Sarah for the true Catholic win.

Posted by: LASue at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (lCppi)

176 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (2VST1)

How long until the LGBTQ+++++ group add a dick to the statue?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (VNX3d)

177 We had our first MAP president, isn't it time for a MAP pope too?

#LOVEISLOVE

Posted by: Some leftist at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)

178 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.
_______

Is it titled, Welcome to the DMV ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)

179 162 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It's inspirational.
Looking at it inspires me to lose weight.
It's probably sponsored by Ozempic.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 03:45 PM (rT96s)

180 I'm assuming the OG Jesuits might be embarrassed by the current crop of Jesuits
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)


You could probably say that about any branch of the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (KKJEY)

181 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (2VST1)
__________________

The Stacey Abrams memorial?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

182 Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Well hello there you fine thing.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (RxTC7)

183 We're the expendables.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
---
*brohug*
Posted by: Weasel


BBB... Bring Better Bacon and lots of it!!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (olkOV)

184 I got it, if it makes you feel better.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (DRSnL)

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Thank you! I gotta lot of questions about the rest of you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (2UnvF)

185 Let's say we left it to the US Senate + 33 other Top Men, - let's say, a mixture of IC officials, defense contractors, and business leaders - to elect the President For Life. What do you think you'd get? Not a Trump, that's for sure.

These fellows are going to give Catholics a terrible Pope. The only surprise will be if the new guy doesn't actually have horns and a tail.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 03:37 PM (BI5O2)

Could be, but they've been known to pick a reformer when they want reform, and a conservative when they needed that. In my lifetime even.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)

186 Cardinal Sarah for the true Catholic win.
Posted by: LASue

How are her boobs?

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

187 I'm assuming the OG Jesuits might be embarrassed by the current crop of Jesuits

I think they would go Warhammer Inquisitor on them.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)

188 First order of business of the new Pope is to tell all those homo priests to get out and stay out.

Go start your own homo church or become episcopalian.

Posted by: Uncle Kracker at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (imQ+3)

189 168 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.
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Are they gonna lite it on fire?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (pZ64F)

190 This is coordinated

@libsoftiktok 5h
Boise City Council just passed a resolution recognizing the pride flag as an official city flag to circumvent Idaho law which only allows official city, state and federal flags be flown from government buildings

@libsoftiktok 3h
JUST IN: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new flags as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)

191 I suppose you don't care a pinch of Owl Dung about Pope then?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)
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That's a great story.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (6YdsJ)

192 Meanwhile, New Yorkers put up a 12 foot tall statue of a homely and angry looking chubby black woman for no apparent reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (2VST1)
___________________

Could be worse. SF put up a 50 ft statue of a buck naked woman because reasons.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

193 YouTube recommended me two separate 30 minute long videos about a leak of Assassin's Creed's 6 year plan.

I do not nearly care enough about Assassin's Creed to watch 30 minute videos about it, but I was curious enough to want to know more.

So, I searched for it and found a Reddit post, about 200 words total, that told me everything. Got the information in about 25 seconds.

I don't understand people who watch long videos for breaking news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

194 The seclusion of the cardinals does pique my curiosity about how the deliberations actually play out inside there...

"First rule of Cardinal Fight Club: Don't talk about Cardinal Fight Club."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (7fElN)

195 JUST IN: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new flags as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.

But remember guys, they just want to get married and this will never have any effect on anyone else

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

196 180 I'm assuming the OG Jesuits might be embarrassed by the current crop of Jesuits
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

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Jesuits being assholes were one of the major contributing factors to Japan cutting off all contact with the West in the early 17th century.

Jesuits have been a problem for centuries.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

197 I expect St Ignatius Loyola wouldn't be on board with celebrating homosexuality. And approval of gay marriage either, but then he wasn't a liberation theologian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (42Vb+)

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My post was really just a friendly Cleveland St. Ed's jab at St. Ignatius.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (MMp6W)

198 @libsoftiktok 5h
Boise City Council just passed a resolution recognizing the pride flag as an official city flag to circumvent Idaho law which only allows official city, state and federal flags be flown from government buildings

@libsoftiktok 3h
JUST IN: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new flags as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)
________________

Boise and Salt Lake City are coming out in favor of the fag flag?

Judgment Day must be nigh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

199 Shhh! Be vewy quiet! I'm looking for popes!
- Cardinal Fudd

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (w4rYw)

200 This is coordinated

@libsoftiktok 5h
Boise City Council just passed a resolution recognizing the pride flag as an official city flag to circumvent Idaho law which only allows official city, state and federal flags be flown from government buildings

@libsoftiktok 3h
JUST IN: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new flags as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)

RINO cuck legislatures left a massive and obvious loophole in the law.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (l3YAf)

201 I vote for Ted Nugent

Posted by: Otto Pen at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (sJHOI)

202
Jesuits have been a problem for centuries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla

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I thought I settled their hash, but nooooo....

Posted by: Clement XIV at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (QnmlO)

203 I don't understand people who watch long videos for breaking news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

Cause they are illiterate?

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (lpgaA)

204 Massive and obvious loophole

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (l3YAf)
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Now *that's* what should be on their flag

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (RxTC7)

205
Given that Hank Greenberg was the last great Jewish athlete, I think they won that trade.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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Per noted historian Adam Sandler, Rod Carew?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (k/U8Z)

206 How are her boobs?
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

You knew this but Cardinal Sarah is a Black man and quite conservative. He might not be in boobie jokes about himself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (/29TY)

207 I suppose you don't care a pinch of Owl Dung about Pope then?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)
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That's a great story.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (6YdsJ)

Fountainhead of a lifelong hatred of Little Mac. No fan of John Pope, but Mac was a traitor.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

208 166 I’m not weighing in until I hear what Father Guido Sarduchi has to say.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 07, 2025 03:44 PM (6TlG5)

https://tinyurl.com/3j57t672

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 07, 2025 03:50 PM (pIfcn)

209 Well hello there you fine thing.
Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:46 PM (RxTC7)

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Hello, Ellipsis my love.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

210 203 I don't understand people who watch long videos for breaking news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

Cause they are illiterate?
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (lpgaA)

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I don't even use that as a crutch!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

211 You knew this but Cardinal Sarah is a Black man and quite conservative. He might not be in boobie jokes about himself.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (/29TY)

He would likely say we were milking his name.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:51 PM (RxTC7)

212 Jesuits are sure they're the brains of th Church. Unfortunately, they did what all post-war academics did.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:51 PM (6Kw5g)

213 The last non-cardinal pope was Pope Urban VI, who reigned from 1378-1389. He had been a bishop at the time of his election.

The last pope who had not previously served as bishop, but was bestowed the title of cardinal prior to the conclave, was Pope Gregory XVI, who reigned from 1831-1846.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 07, 2025 03:51 PM (tOcjL)

214 Jesuits being assholes were one of the major contributing factors to Japan cutting off all contact with the West in the early 17th century.


Well, I think the specific issue was the Spanish literally talking about how they were going to use the RCC to take over Japan in front of the Japanese

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

215 I think people use long videos for background noise, so they feel less lonely and think less.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (2VST1)

216 Blessings on the conclave!

Posted by: m at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (CQE5S)

217 193 YouTube recommended me two separate 30 minute long videos about a leak of Assassin's Creed's 6 year plan.

I do not nearly care enough about Assassin's Creed to watch 30 minute videos about it, but I was curious enough to want to know more.

So, I searched for it and found a Reddit post, about 200 words total, that told me everything. Got the information in about 25 seconds.

I don't understand people who watch long videos for breaking news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

Here's a 45-minute video explaining the value of watching 30-minute videos for breaking news:

https://tinyurl.com/njfxb2pn

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (UGyV5)

218
Fountainhead of a lifelong hatred of Little Mac. No fan of John Pope, but Mac was a traitor.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

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This Grant fellow is just a drunken muleskinner who's throwing away the lives of our boys. We need someone like George McClellan, who understands the norms of war.

Posted by: GOPe in 1864 at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (QnmlO)

219 Jordan's back! Hey Jordan! *waves to Jordan* We missed you!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

220 The last non-cardinal pope was Pope Urban VI, who reigned from 1378-1389.
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Also possibly certifiably nuts.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (6YdsJ)

221 Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

Nothing is the same without you. But it's fine. Really.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (RxTC7)

222 Sandy Koufax.
Haven't kept up with it to know if there have been more since.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:42 PM (8avO+)

There was that WR Edleman with my Patriots.

He was a gamer.

Posted by: Bob Kraft, NFL Owner Who Likes The Yellow at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (imQ+3)

223 LOL

CBC news is talking about a Canadian porn deep fake guy.

Videos include Emma Watson, Scarlett Johannson and AOC!

Lol.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (jvJvP)

224 202 I thought I settled their hash, but nooooo....
Posted by: Clement XIV at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (QnmlO)

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I think a new Clement would be cool to have.

Let's go Clement XV!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

225 PS - And technically, a Pope can be voted in at any age, so we could get an aged 80+ Pope elected, even though he can't be at the conclave.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (tOcjL)

226 I saw Jesuits Being Assholes open for Men Without Hats at Great Woods back in 92.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (RxTC7)

227 Joe Rogan Shocked by CIA Scientist’s Claims About How Many Crashed UFOs the U.S. Has
. . . .
Former CIA scientist Dr. Hal Puthoff made headlines this week after claiming on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the United States government has recovered more than ten non-human craft since the 1940s, with additional unidentified aerial phenomena reportedly retrieved by foreign nations.

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And that technology has been turned over to Elon Musk.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (L/fGl)

228 CBC news is talking about a Canadian porn deep fake guy.

Videos include Emma Watson, Scarlett Johannson and AOC!

Lol.


Peek 2025 is the FNM going on about the danger of political deep fakes only to see people use them to make pron.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (t0Rmr)

229 214 Jesuits being assholes were one of the major contributing factors to Japan cutting off all contact with the West in the early 17th century.


Well, I think the specific issue was the Spanish literally talking about how they were going to use the RCC to take over Japan in front of the Japanese
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

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Jesuits buying up land and refusing any sort of loyalty to the Shogun while trying to meddle in governmental affairs certainly didn't help.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

230 Cardinal Sarah for the true Catholic win.
Posted by: LASue
.......

Subaru Popemobile?

Posted by: wth at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

231 I suppose you don't care a pinch of Owl Dung about Pope then?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)
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That's a great story.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (6YdsJ)

Fountainhead of a lifelong hatred of Little Mac. No fan of John Pope, but Mac was a traitor.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

my Great Great Grandfather was in the Union Artillery at 2nd Bull Run. In the grand attack his 6 guns were holding back the attacking Rebs near the middle of the line till their ammo was gone...no resupply from DC. As they retired followed at a distance a gun carriage was smashed and they stopped and slung the cannon under a caisson and when done walked off the field.

A very similar thing happened at Chancellorsville AND Gettysburg.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

232 🇻🇦 Fr Victor Feltes
@StuffForSisters
May 5
The conclave is so close the excitement is papable

Posted by: m at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (CQE5S)

233 200 This is coordinated

@libsoftiktok 5h
Boise City Council just passed a resolution recognizing the pride flag as an official city flag to circumvent Idaho law which only allows official city, state and federal flags be flown from government buildings

@libsoftiktok 3h
JUST IN: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new flags as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)

RINO cuck legislatures left a massive and obvious loophole in the law.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (l3YAf)

Guys, they just want to be seen.

Everywhere. All the time. On everything.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (KbCG3)

234 Columbia Public Safety unsuccessfully attempted to stop them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They need big nets
Posted by: vmom


I'll clear the library with two hand held fire extinguishers.

But you're gonna need medical on standby.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (xt/H7)

235 The Medici pope wasn't even a priest.

Posted by: Dagny at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (6Kw5g)

236 Cardinal Weasel has a ring to it. What do you think?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (PiwSw)

237 If the US recovered any alien spacecraft they got nothing out of them.

For all the interest in the grow of tech over the last few generations each new theory/application/device has a history you can see leading up to it.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (t0Rmr)

238 Max Fried of the Yankees is a nice Jewish boy and a damn good pitcher

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (vmkyp)

239 When you don't get chosen for Pope they say don't be too disappointed it's just a Papal Cut.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (RxTC7)

240 I mostly just want a pope more than X.

It's been a long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

241 The Binford Smokealator 6000. For all your papal selection projects.

Remember: If it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else makes it.

Posted by: Tim The Toolman Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (T0oeS)

242 I vote for Ted Nugent
Posted by: Otto Pen at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (sJHOI)



How awesome would that be?

Pope Nuge I

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

243 Cardinal Weasel has a ring to it. What do you think?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (PiwSw)
__________________

I'd prefer Cardinal Bubba Kingfish.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

244 We missed you!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

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I miss you guys, too. A lot.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)

245
Max Fried of the Yankees is a nice Jewish boy and a damn good pitcher
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (vmkyp)

_______

Alex Bregman. SuperJew!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (QnmlO)

246 Fuckin Jesuits

Posted by: Toranaga-Sama at May 07, 2025 03:56 PM (2UnvF)

247 For all the interest in the grow of tech over the last few generations each new theory/application/device has a history you can see leading up to it.
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This is an Ancient Alien tactic.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 03:56 PM (pZ64F)

248 one of the top selling video games right now is a re-release of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, almost 20 years old. They remastered the graphics in Unreal engine and added some new voice lines and quests, and its selling like crazy.

The most recent new big game releases are all bombing horribly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)

249 I miss you guys, too. A lot.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)
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See you Saturday?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (6YdsJ)

250 God,
Please send the Holy Spirit to kick ass in the conclave, and have these Cardinals - who mostly don't deserve that title - elect a Pope who will fight the Rainbow Menace with everything available.

Amen.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (D0HYP)

251 The only new release that had any real interest for me was the latest Warhammer game but I think it would make me motion sick.

Oh well...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (t0Rmr)

252 Max Fried of the Yankees is a nice Jewish boy and a damn good pitcher

Pitchers don't count as athletes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (2VST1)

253 >> For all the interest in the grow of tech over the last few generations each new theory/application/device has a history you can see leading up to it.

Dude, they have soft-serve ice cream machines you can have in your home now! Show me the history leading up to that.

We truly live in an age of wonders.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (l3YAf)

254 See you Saturday?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (6YdsJ)

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Yes! I'm bringing my new puppy. Oh, and my husband.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)

255 248 one of the top selling video games right now is a re-release of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, almost 20 years old. They remastered the graphics in Unreal engine and added some new voice lines and quests, and its selling like crazy.

The most recent new big game releases are all bombing horribly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)

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Seems to me like the main consumer of video games are middle-aged guys who just want to recreate their favorite moments from 20 years ago.

Also, Half-Life 3 is rumored to be playable end to end at Valve's offices right now with a potential release before the end of the year. With GTAVI getting delayed to next year, it makes it possible Valve would consider releasing it, if they have it at all.

Rumors of Half-Life 3 have floated for 20 damn years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

256 237 If the US recovered any alien spacecraft they got nothing out of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (t0Rmr)

How bad is your day when you travel insane distances through cold space, dealing with radiation, food and tons of other challenges, BUT THEN CRASH ON EARTH.

WTH?

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (jvJvP)

257 Descent was the ultimate motion sickness game.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (RxTC7)

258 So a Jesuit is a massive heretical gayballz racist? What a shock.

Posted by: Jesuits? More like Faguits at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (TbWk/)

259 @libsoftiktok 3h
JUST IN: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new flags as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)

RINO cuck legislatures left a massive and obvious loophole in the law.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM (l3YAf)

This means that protestors can now burn the flags and its federally protected free speech!

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

260 I'd prefer Cardinal Bubba Kingfish.
____

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (Dv3i1)

261 >> Pitchers don't count as athletes

Catchers do most of the work. Especially if they’re Power Catchers.

Posted by: David Hogg at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (l3YAf)

262 I don't mean to say the Church can't course-correct. It's done so several times through its long-ass history. It's not going away anytime soon. They'll change things up at some point. I just don't think 2025 is one of those years.

You're gonna get some Communist child buggerer and sneak thief, because this is Current Year.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (BI5O2)

263 Well, I think the specific issue was the Spanish literally talking about how they were going to use the RCC to take over Japan in front of the Japanese
Posted by: 18-1

The Chinese Emperors, on the other hand, loved them some Jesuits, who would bring them clocks and other cool Western gadgets.

Also, they were useful in diplomatic dealings with the West. In 1689, it was two Jesuits who assisted in the negotiations between the Chinese and the Russians that resulted in the Treaty of Nerchinsk, China's first treaty with a European power. The treaty was done in three languages: Russian, Mancu, and Latin.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

264 How awesome would that be?

Pope Nuge I
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
......

Have to modify the Popemobile: 4x4 with big mudders and a roll cage.

Posted by: wth at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

265 Seems to me like the main consumer of video games are middle-aged guys who just want to recreate their favorite moments from 20 years ago.

PC games yeah, but console and like switch games, they are much younger in audience. And I do bet that nostalgia doe play a pretty big part, but so does really crappy content coming out combined with obnoxious political shoehorning.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (2VST1)

266 I am not Catholic but hope it's not another Marxist

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (ypFCm)

267 If the US recovered any alien spacecraft they got nothing out of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (t0Rmr)

How bad is your day when you travel insane distances through cold space, dealing with radiation, food and tons of other challenges, BUT THEN CRASH ON EARTH.

WTH?

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (jvJvP)

That's what happens when you buy expired alcohol someone filled with laxatives to make the full bottle.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (VNX3d)

268 How bad is your day when you travel insane distances through cold space, dealing with radiation, food and tons of other challenges, BUT THEN CRASH ON EARTH.

WTH?

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (jvJvP)

I heard the SF writer theory that UFOs are bored/drunk Grad students getting caught screwing around with the equipment.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)

269 one of the top selling video games right now is a re-release of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, almost 20 years old. They remastered the graphics in Unreal engine and added some new voice lines and quests, and its selling like crazy.

The most recent new big game releases are all bombing horribly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)
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One of my coworkers is playing the remastered Oblivion and enjoys it a lot. I don't have room on my home computer for another 125 GB game...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)

270 Max Fried of the Yankees is a nice Jewish boy and a damn good pitcher
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 03:54 PM (vmkyp)




Then he should be added to the pamphlet on famous Jewish sports heroes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

271 265 Seems to me like the main consumer of video games are middle-aged guys who just want to recreate their favorite moments from 20 years ago.

PC games yeah, but console and like switch games, they are much younger in audience. And I do bet that nostalgia doe play a pretty big part, but so does really crappy content coming out combined with obnoxious political shoehorning.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:59 PM (2VST1)

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I'm finally playing through Half-Life 2's sequel episodes on my Steam Deck.

Fun stuff. 20 years old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

272 Yes! I'm bringing my new puppy. Oh, and my husband.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)
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Yo, youngster!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (tT6L1)

273 Two Jewish guys are walking when one notices a sign on a Catholic church that says "Convert to Christianity, and we'll give you $100."
The one says to the other, "should we do it?"
The other says "NO!! Are you crazy?"
The first guy replies "Hey, a hundred dollars is a hundred dollars... I'm gonna do it."
So he walks in to the church, and little while later, he walks back out.
The friend says "well, did you get the money?"
He replies "Oh that's all you people think about, isn't it?"

Posted by: Stop me if you've heard it at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (T0oeS)

274 269 One of my coworkers is playing the remastered Oblivion and enjoys it a lot. I don't have room on my home computer for another 125 GB game...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)

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Dune 2000 is, like, 500 mb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

275 Yes! I'm bringing my new puppy. Oh, and my husband.

Make sure you don't mix up their food

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (2VST1)

276 He said he becomes "agitated" when people say it is time for an American, African, or "South Islander" pope. "I think that is so stupid," he opined. "It's time for the successor of Peter for 2025."

Something tells me this loves successive peters.

Posted by: Check his hard drive at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (TbWk/)

277 I've got a theme song for Conclave.

Posted by: C.W. McCall at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (eStot)

278 I think having a rainbow flag as an official flag for any state or city is ridiculous. When I see it at my local municipal office I inwardly groan? What ? No flag for straight residents? Could we just fly the US flag and the state flag and maybe the county flag?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (42Vb+)

279 Catholic Charities was grifting USAID $.
How much got kicked to that Red Pope?

Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (m4ZZk)

280 Shorter version: Jesuits Worried Next Pope Might be Catholic

Posted by: steevy at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (YwEeS)

281 50 Pope.

Pope.

Pope.

Pope of Rome.

Pope.

Pope.

Pope of Rome.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea


Ah, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Of Rome
Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Of Rome
Pope Of Rome (oh, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Of Rome)
Bless my hand (ah, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Of Rome)
Pope Of Rome (oh, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Of Rome)
You got me kneelin' and a prayin', singin' and hosahnnin'
Pope Of Rome, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Of Rome

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (aBgBM)

282
Rumors of Half-Life 3 have floated for 20 damn years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)



They did finally come out with Duke Nukem, so there's a chance....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

283 I've got a theme song for Conclave.
Posted by: C.W. McCall at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (eStot)
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Back off, poseur.

Posted by: Deep Purple at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (tT6L1)

284 year. With GTAVI getting delayed to next year, it makes it possible Valve would consider releasing it, if they have it at all.

Rumors of Half-Life 3 have floated for 20 damn years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

Even if it still had the same graphics as episode 2, I'd buy it.

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (/6GbT)

285 Helluva coincydink.

Rapes Triple in Spain Amid Migration Surge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (L/fGl)

286 278 I think having a rainbow flag as an official flag for any state or city is ridiculous. When I see it at my local municipal office I inwardly groan? What ? No flag for straight residents? Could we just fly the US flag and the state flag and maybe the county flag?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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But what if Idaho is a gay state?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (Dv3i1)

287 282
Rumors of Half-Life 3 have floated for 20 damn years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)


They did finally come out with Duke Nukem, so there's a chance....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

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I just hope Valve's standards are higher than 2K's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

288 I heard the SF writer theory that UFOs are bored/drunk Grad students getting caught screwing around with the equipment.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)
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Teasers - you know, they find some Earthling no one will ever believe and strut up and down wearing antennas and making "beep beep" noises. Rather childish, really.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (6YdsJ)

289 Max Fried of the Yankees is a nice Jewish boy and a damn good pitcher

Pitchers don't count as athletes
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (2VST1)

These days when they pitch a half an inning and cry about it. I remember the guff when Sparky Anderson would take out pitchers who were tired in inning 7. In those days even the closer would pitch 120 innings .

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (8avO+)

290 Hey, we're sitting right here...

Posted by: National Association for the Advancement of Alleutian Cardinals at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (T0oeS)

291
But what if Idaho is a gay state?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (Dv3i1)

Boise is a liberal bastion.. The rest of Idaho not so much

Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (VE6XX)

292 284 Even if it still had the same graphics as episode 2, I'd buy it.
Posted by: A dude in MI at May 07, 2025 04:02 PM (/6GbT)

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They still hold up shockingly well.

But one of the reasons Half-Life 3 development stopped at one point over the last 20 years (one of several stops) was because Valve wanted to focus on their new engine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

293 14 We had flowers that grew outside the house when I was a little kid that my parents called "pope's noses." I am not even sure that was their real name
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 03:24 PM (2VST1)

I vaguely recall my devoutly Catholic mother referring to the portion of the turkey that flew over the fence last as 'the pope's nose'.

I have a theory - if you're not allowed to mock it - it's not the one with power. Example - Catholics - and everyone else - make fun of Catholicism all the time. Nobody dares do that to Islam. Why? Because Islam is so afraid that if you see the ridiculousness of their premise, it all falls apart. Christianity says 'go ahead. We've withstood persecution 2000 years. Ain't gonna go away now'.

Other examples girl bosses vs real bosses; LGBTQ#$%^^ Vs. the normal people, etc.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 04:04 PM (QGaXH)

294 Baldur's Gate.

A lot of fun...

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:04 PM (jvJvP)

295 But what if Idaho is a gay state?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (Dv3i1)

I thought America’s Official Gay State was Florida. It’s even shaped like a you-know-what.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:04 PM (l3YAf)

296 The problem with all these game companies is that not only is nobody left in them that made the old games that people loved, they have like 10 times the employees now, and half the talent, if that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (2VST1)

297 Boise is a liberal bastion.. The rest of Idaho not so much
Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (VE6XX)
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Yeah, Boise was finally swamped by the rest of ID. Amuses me immensely.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (tT6L1)

298
I just hope Valve's standards are higher than 2K's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)



I liked Duke Nukem.

I have some of the drops on my phone.

DOUCHE!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

299 Catholic Charities was grifting USAID $.
How much got kicked to that Red Pope?
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (m4ZZk)

The Judge who was arrested for interfering with ICE had been a high up person in Catholic Charities, presumably running refugees about the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)

300 I thought America’s Official Gay State was Florida. It’s even shaped like a you-know-what.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Too bad it's so far from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

301 298 I liked Duke Nukem.

I have some of the drops on my phone.

DOUCHE!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

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Well, Duke Nukem 3D isn't exactly the same as Duke Nukem Forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

302 I've got a theme song for Conclave.

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What if...it is all decided, and this pomp is all a cover for a House Party in the Sixtine Chapel, and all they do is sit around eating, drinking, and gossiping, and then somebody says "it's time!" and they burn some paper ? I mean , it's all very secretive !

Posted by: runner at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (g47mK)

303 Yo, youngster!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:00 PM (tT6L1)

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Hi Blake!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (DRSnL)

304 You knew this but Cardinal Sarah is a Black man and quite conservative. He might not be in boobie jokes about himself.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 03:49 PM (/29TY)


That would be Cardinal Tiffani

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (gKWVE)

305 The rapes in Spain are mainly on the plain.

Posted by: Finishing school at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (T0oeS)

306 Cardinal Czerny is concerned that the Cardinals may actually elect, you know, a Catholic.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (ZmEVT)

307
Well, Duke Nukem 3D isn't exactly the same as Duke Nukem Forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)



Valid point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

308 Hi Blake!
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (DRSnL)
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Are you still bringing a victim, I mean, your son, to TX?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (tT6L1)

309 Because Islam is so afraid that if you see the ridiculousness of their premise, it all falls apart.

The Quran specifically states that God will deal with people who disrespect the faith, but then it also says to literally chop the heads off unbelievers so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (2VST1)

310 Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) has proposed adopting three new Pope's?
as "official" city flags in order to circumvent Utah state law banning political and non-official flags from government buildings.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 07, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)

RINO cuck legislatures left a massive and obvious loophole in the law.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 03:48 PM

This means that protestors can now burn the flags and its federally protected free speech!
Posted by: Oldcat
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I'm waiting for the giant penis flag to fly over Utah.

Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (m4ZZk)

311 Cardinal Czerny is concerned that the Cardinals may actually elect, you know, a Catholic.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (ZmEVT)
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According to the video, over 100 of the cardinals were appointed by Frankie. So...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (6YdsJ)

312 Are you still bringing a victim, I mean, your son, to TX?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (tT6L1)

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Hopefully.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (DRSnL)

313 Mackerel snapper party.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (w4rYw)

314 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)

315 Cardinal Czerny's a power bottom

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (xcxpd)

316 I think having a rainbow flag as an official flag for any state or city is ridiculous. When I see it at my local municipal office I inwardly groan? What ? No flag for straight residents? Could we just fly the US flag and the state flag and maybe the county flag?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (42Vb+)

I think having any flag for a city is pretty lame. The flag is to lead your soldiers into battle. Cities don't have that. Though I had a friend who designed a flag for his own nation that was part of the backyard.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

317 I likes the Elder Scrolls, stuff.. I'm such a nerd I made an excel file to help me level up efficiently so I could maximize all attributes...

yup..

nerd.

Posted by: Inogame at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (53oGX)

318 Until the hooch runs out.

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (T0oeS)

319 >>> 311 Cardinal Czerny is concerned that the Cardinals may actually elect, you know, a Catholic.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 07, 2025 04:07 PM (ZmEVT)
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According to the video, over 100 of the cardinals were appointed by Frankie. So...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (6YdsJ)

... it's a target-rich environment for smiting???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (Vqx30)

320 314 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)

They last until they select a Pope.

That said, I'm sure everyone wants to get out of there and go home, so probably only a few days.

Kind of like jury deliberations.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

321 Cue "The Vatican Rag". Goes to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/3d2pmssp

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (5xuJ/)

322 An African pope could be as consequential as a Polish pope was a few years ago.

Posted by: pawn at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (pZHAc)

323 >> Though I had a friend who designed a flag for his own nation that was part of the backyard.

Petoria?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (l3YAf)

324 Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Jesuit

Posted by: IrishEi at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (3ImbR)

325 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)
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Well, I think one conclave finally ended when the faithful got tired of the Cardinals not getting the job done, so, they cut off food and water until the Conclave capitulated, I mean, elected a new Pope.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (tT6L1)

326 299 Catholic Charities was grifting USAID $.
How much got kicked to that Red Pope?
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2025 04:01 PM (m4ZZk)

The Judge who was arrested for interfering with ICE had been a high up person in Catholic Charities, presumably running refugees about the country.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)

Catholic Charities has been a money maker for some parts of the Church for years, by grifting and ignoring such niceties as immigration law. The collapse of it because of USAID getting Doged is not a bad think, at all. What really pisses me off is the special collections they used to get in church, as if they needed my $10 to do "charity" work. It isn't charity if you take our taxes to do it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (a4NoL)

327 320 They last until they select a Pope.

That said, I'm sure everyone wants to get out of there and go home, so probably only a few days.

Kind of like jury deliberations.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

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Hangin' with your bros, playing Call of Duty to the wee hours of the morning, not having to deal with admin stuff back home?

This could go for months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

328 What if...it is all decided, and this pomp is all a cover for a House Party in the Sixtine Chapel, and all they do is sit around eating, drinking, and gossiping, and then somebody says "it's time!" and they burn some paper ? I mean , it's all very secretive !
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2025 04:06 PM (g47mK)

Well if you stop in 20 minutes nobody will think you tried.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)

329 They last until they select a Pope.
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Once it lasted over a year. Whoever was running Rome at the time got fed up and had their roof removed and reduced them to a diet of bread and water.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:11 PM (6YdsJ)

330 314 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls

According to the news a few days, but once 3 years.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:11 PM (jvJvP)

331 324 Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Jesuit
Posted by: IrishEi at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (3ImbR)

I forget what movie I heard it in, but I think it was Michael Caine saying something like, "The Jebbies? They're still in the Church?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:11 PM (a4NoL)

332 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)

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Shortest Conclave was one day. The longest was three years from 1268 to 1271.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 04:11 PM (2UnvF)

333 Though I had a friend who designed a flag for his own nation that was part of the backyard.

Petoria?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (l3YAf)

I believe he named it Zatar.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (8avO+)

334 An African pope could be as consequential as a Polish pope was a few years ago.
Posted by: pawn

That Polish pope helped bring down Communism.

Let's hope an African pope can bring down Islam.

I might even become a Catholic if a pope could do that.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

335 330 According to the news a few days, but once 3 years.
Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:11 PM (jvJvP)

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"This conclave has gone for 10 days, something that hasn't happened in decades. It's unprecedented."
-some newsreader's gonna say it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

336 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)

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Shortest Conclave was one day. The longest was three years from 1268 to 1271.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 04:11 PM (2UnvF)

What are the odds we'll see a new record?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (VNX3d)

337 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)
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2-5 days generally. Most end in 3 days.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (3ImbR)

338 Cardinal Voldemort will do the right thing, I'm sure.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (PiwSw)

339 Hangin' with your bros, playing Call of Duty to the wee hours of the morning, not having to deal with admin stuff back home?

This could go for months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

That's the flip side. I think there was definitely an element of that in the good old days. Which is why they had to make rules about what kind of food the cardinals ate, etc.

Prior to that, I imagine going to Rome to eat and drink like an animal while officially working sounded like a great excuse for a mini vacation.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (uCjyK)

340 They should do it like a gender reveal.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (RxTC7)

341 321 Cue "The Vatican Rag". Goes to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/3d2pmssp

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (5xuJ/)

Sweet.. Have all 3 CDs.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (jvJvP)

342 Kind of like jury deliberations.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

Yeah, I’m still not convinced that guy was guilty of murder, but I had to feed my cat. I forgot to get someone to feed my cat.

Plus, those chairs are hell on hemorrhoids

Posted by: Juror #10 at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (l3YAf)

343 Pope Mayhem has a certain je ne sais quoi to it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 07, 2025 03:36 PM (2J/Lj)

You've got my vote!!!

Posted by: pookysgirl, not Pope material at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (Wt5PA)

344 Is Elder Scrolls the game with the Barbarian guy with a horned helmet and some elf wizardess that wields magic while wearing thigh high boots?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (t0Rmr)

345
The fastest way to get these folks to make a choice quickly is to make sure the food is bad, and the beds are hard.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (IifOV)

346 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Until we get white smoke.
Stats on the last 5.
https://is.gd/TF9wpj

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (olkOV)

347 It is really odd to me the fixation the news has with the pope, given how most of them are actively hostile toward Christianity and think the Roman Catholic Church needs to be investigated by the DOJ.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (2VST1)

348 So, why aren't the Jesuits considered heretics?

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (UnA8+)

349 Honestly, I think it would be hysterical if someone in the Vatican didn’t care about their job and decided to fuck with everyone and send up a big puff of orange smoke.!

Posted by: keena at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (RiTnx)

350 Seeking the guidance of the Lord God Almighty does that have an assigned time?

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (PCK5/)

351 I'll take the cardinals in 4

Posted by: Theodore N at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (Y7Xr6)

352 The most recent new big game releases are all bombing horribly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

The game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been getting good press and is currently rated at 4.6 out of 5 on Xbox store. It’s a non woke fantasy RPG put out by a small studio.

https://shorturl.at/kfyfc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (L/fGl)

353 ... it's a target-rich environment for smiting???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2025 04:09 PM (Vqx30)

Oh SMOD, where art thou?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (a4NoL)

354 345
The fastest way to get these folks to make a choice quickly is to make sure the food is bad, and the beds are hard.
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So go full hospital on them, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (pZ64F)

355 Is Elder Scrolls the game with the Barbarian guy with a horned helmet and some elf wizardess that wields magic while wearing thigh high boots?

Half right, the barbarian thing. The armor and clothing tends to be pretty reasonable in the Elder Scrolls games. That doesn't stop modders from turning the women into zeppelin-breasted anime dolls wearing a metal bikini.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (2VST1)

356 254 See you Saturday?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 03:57 PM (6YdsJ)

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Yes! I'm bringing my new puppy. Oh, and my husband.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)

Nice!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (xcxpd)

357 Yeah, I’m still not convinced that guy was guilty of murder, but I had to feed my cat. I forgot to get someone to feed my cat.

Plus, those chairs are hell on hemorrhoids
Posted by: Juror #10 at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (l3YAf)

Happens allll the time. Poll the jury -- "oh, I changed my vote after 2 days." "why?" "well, I don't know. We'd been there for 2 days, and it just seemed easier than trying to convince other people to switch to my side of the argument."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (uCjyK)

358 Here at the Brattleboro Episcopal Church and Women's Reproductive Choice Center, we pray that our Catholic friends consider electing an underrepresented LGBTQ++ trans positive trauma affirming feminist genderqueer pope so we can bring Christianity to everyone!

We will be flying the rainbow flag high as we wait on the smoke. Amen. And a-woman.

Posted by: Right Reverand Mary Clogenstein Jr. at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (sIQXG)

359 Hangin' with your bros, playing Call of Duty to the wee hours of the morning, not having to deal with admin stuff back home?

This could go for months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)


Especially when someone starts turning water into wine.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (W/lyH)

360 Is Elder Scrolls the game with the Barbarian guy with a horned helmet and some elf wizardess that wields magic while wearing thigh high boots?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:13 PM (t0Rmr)

No he really is an elder so they model wheezing on the up slopes and getting a backache from the 45 swords in your backpack.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

361 How long do Papal conclaves usually last?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:08 PM (SZhls)

In the 1200s one lasted 3 years.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (lpgaA)

362 The game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been getting good press and is currently rated at 4.6 out of 5 on Xbox store. It’s a non woke fantasy RPG put out by a small studio

Yeah the smaller game companies have been putting out some solid stuff, its the big "AAA" companies that have been crapping out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

363 359 Hangin' with your bros, playing Call of Duty to the wee hours of the morning, not having to deal with admin stuff back home?

This could go for months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)


Especially when someone starts turning water into wine.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (W/lyH)

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"Who's turn is it to burn the ballots? You're staying sober today."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

364 I have no faith in The men voting. But with God anything can happen. The Roman's say that a skinny pope always follows a fat one. Meaning historically the conclave elects a conservative after a liberal and a liberal after a conservative.

Who knows. We'll find out eventually. Where's Joe Sarto when you need him....

Posted by: Keep praying at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (vYNTx)

365 Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Jesuit...

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All I need to know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (RIvkX)

366 Interesting factoid: The last Pope who was elected on the first vote was Pius XII in 1939. It is historically less than 5% over 250+ Popes. Historians attribute the quick vote in '39 to being during WW2 in Europe, assuming the Cardinals didn't want to show instability.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2cS/G)

367 I'm a little slow on the uptake -- it just now occurred to me that I ought to be praying about the next Pope and asking God to give the job to a follower of Christ instead of a servant of Marx.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 07, 2025 04:17 PM (Sf2cq)

368 Half right, the barbarian thing. The armor and clothing tends to be pretty reasonable in the Elder Scrolls games. That doesn't stop modders from turning the women into zeppelin-breasted anime dolls wearing a metal bikini.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (2VST1)

In the new games the wokes who make the women ugly have run into the immovable wall of modders who want even to make the ladies at least attractive.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:17 PM (8avO+)

369 Hope they count all the mail in ballots

Posted by: Theodore N at May 07, 2025 04:17 PM (Y7Xr6)

370 348 So, why aren't the Jesuits considered heretics?
Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (UnA8+)

Bishop Morlino of Madison of late memory was raised a Jesuit, but he had a spine of steel and was far to intellectual and holy to stick with it. I expect he is a saint in heaven for standing up to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Madison WI.

Most Jesuits go astray, and it is primarily because so many of them are homosexuals. Others are just left over hippies from the 60's, and their time is coming to an end.

An awful lot of them are, indeed, heretics, and they live in their own echo chamber.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:17 PM (a4NoL)

371 369 Hope they count all the mail in ballots
____

Is that what those envelopes at the end of the pew are for?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:18 PM (Dv3i1)

372 Interesting factoid: The last Pope who was elected on the first vote was Pius XII in 1939. It is historically less than 5% over 250+ Popes. Historians attribute the quick vote in '39 to being during WW2 in Europe, assuming the Cardinals didn't want to show instability.
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2cS/G)

Voting during a war? That’s some crazy shit man.
- Zelensky

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:18 PM (ImXfC)

373 Interesting factoid: The last Pope who was elected on the first vote was Pius XII in 1939. It is historically less than 5% over 250+ Popes. Historians attribute the quick vote in '39 to being during WW2 in Europe, assuming the Cardinals didn't want to show instability.
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2cS/G)

Or the secret fact that that pope actually DID have 20 divisions of troops.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:18 PM (8avO+)

374 It would be cool if the Conclave was all Thunder Dome.

The one cardinal that survives becomes Pope after emerging naked from the conflagration like Daenerys Targaryen from the temple of the Dosh Khaleen.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 07, 2025 04:18 PM (4bbGl)

375 In the new games the wokes who make the women ugly have run into the immovable wall of modders who want even to make the ladies at least attractive.

Oblivion remake has "body type A and Body type B" instead of male and female choices. Modders fixed that within like 5 minutes of release. Nexus Mods banned that mod and got hammered so badly by customers and social media they reversed it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (2VST1)

376 352 The game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been getting good press and is currently rated at 4.6 out of 5 on Xbox store. It’s a non woke fantasy RPG put out by a small studio.

https://shorturl.at/kfyfc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 04:14 PM (L/fGl)

They also sold out of the entire print run of Physical Copies within a week and you can't get it if you don't want to be stuck with just a digital version.

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (UnA8+)

377 That doesn't stop modders from turning the women into zeppelin-breasted anime dolls wearing a metal bikini.
===
You say that like its is a bad thing.

Personally, I think the invention of the jiggle code might have been the greatest advance in programming in my lifetime.

Posted by: Keep praying at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (vYNTx)

378 well, pookysgirl, you probably had fewer kids than Alexander VI did

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (gKWVE)

379 Do they have Buicks full of ballots in the Vatican? Or I guess more like Fiats full of ballots.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (ImXfC)

380
I always thought Big Al Delvecchio from Happy Days looked like he'd make a good Pope. Plus he'd say "yeh,yeh,yeh,yeh,yeh" after prayers.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (IifOV)

381
@libsoftiktok 5h
Boise City Council just passed a resolution recognizing the pride flag as an official city flag to circumvent Idaho law which only allows official city, state and federal flags be flown from government buildings

———

Zero difference between the “Pride” flags and Nazi flags. They serve the exact same purpose to tell you who is in control.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 07, 2025 04:19 PM (LRNu1)

382 358 Here at the Brattleboro Episcopal Church and Women's Reproductive Choice Center, we pray that our Catholic friends consider electing an underrepresented LGBTQ++ trans positive trauma affirming feminist genderqueer pope so we can bring Christianity to everyone!

We will be flying the rainbow flag high as we wait on the smoke. Amen. And a-woman.
Posted by: Right Reverand Mary Clogenstein Jr. at May 07, 2025 04:15 PM (sIQXG)

This literally has already happened:

NBC reported:

Ahead of a men-only conclave, activists will release pink smoke near the Vatican
Astha Rajvanshi

The Women’s Ordination Conference, which promotes female priesthood, told Reuters on Monday that it plans to release pink smoke from a hill near the Vatican hours before the conclave starts.

Activists from the Women's Ordination Conference release pink smoke

“The exclusion of women from the conclave, and from ordained ministry, is a sin and a scandal,” Executive Director Kate McElwee said in a statement. “A group of ordained men meeting behind closed doors to make a consequential decision about the future of the church is textbook ‘old boy’s club.’”

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 07, 2025 04:20 PM (B9Prs)

383 Interesting factoid: The last Pope who was elected on the first vote was Pius XII in 1939. It is historically less than 5% over 250+ Popes. Historians attribute the quick vote in '39 to being during WW2 in Europe, assuming the Cardinals didn't want to show instability.
Posted by: Lincolntf

According to the Sedevacantists, Pius XII was the last true Pope. His successor, John XXIII, convened Vatican II, as a result of which he and all his successors since are illegitimate.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

384 Yeah the smaller game companies have been putting out some solid stuff, its the big "AAA" companies that have been crapping out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

You can't have administrative rot when its just a few people with some ideas.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)

385 Elder scrolls is the game with the Club Outfit Elf wizardess: https://tinyurl.com/mvtjpcfx

But the cinematics were very well done.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (t0Rmr)

386 340 They should do it like a gender reveal.
Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (RxTC7)

Fireworks and exploding balloons that bring on a miscarriage?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (a4NoL)

387 "The exclusion of women from the conclave, and from ordained ministry, is a sin and a scandal"

"Oh we'll be fixing that soon enough"
--College of Cardinals

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (2VST1)

388 Yeah the smaller game companies have been putting out some solid stuff, its the big "AAA" companies that have been crapping out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

Helldivers 2

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (lpgaA)

389 Well, I won't declare a favorite until after the swimsuit competition.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (L/fGl)

390 “A group of ordained men meeting behind closed doors to make a consequential decision about the future of the church is textbook ‘old boy’s club.’”
_____

Curious how they would describe the men that were the Apostles.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (Dv3i1)

391 Pope Nancy Pelosi?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

392 Elder scrolls is the game with the Club Outfit Elf wizardess:

Their best trailer was the Breton Knight one.

But Elder Scrolls Online is not really very closely related to the actual Elder Scrolls games like Oblivion, Morrowind, And Skyrim

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (2VST1)

393 This Boise thing shows once again that red state or blue state doesn’t make a difference when it comes to cities over a certain size. They’re all run by communists. Boise and San Francisco and Austin and NYC are all run by the same people. They just happen to be in states that differ politically.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (ImXfC)

394 According to the Sedevacantists, Pius XII was the last true Pope. His successor, John XXIII, convened Vatican II, as a result of which he and all his successors since are illegitimate.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
-----------
If pope and antipope meet, do they annihilate each other.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (6YdsJ)

395 Fireworks and exploding balloons that bring on a miscarriage?

Son of a gun!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 07, 2025 04:23 PM (w4rYw)

396 Well, I won't declare a favorite until after the swimsuit competition.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Cardinal Sarah oughta win that one handily.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

397 If pope and antipope meet, do they annihilate each other.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (6YdsJ


Or do they create a third pope?

Posted by: John XXIII of Pisa at May 07, 2025 04:23 PM (gKWVE)

398 If pope and antipope meet, do they annihilate each other.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (6YdsJ)

Usually what happens is they excommunicate each other.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 07, 2025 04:23 PM (B9Prs)

399 According to the Sedevacantists, Pius XII was the last true Pope. His successor, John XXIII, convened Vatican II, as a result of which he and all his successors since are illegitimate.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

I think you will find a lot more Catholics thinking it was Pius X that was the last true Pope. There are a few of the sedevacantists who believe it was Pius XII, but most believe the rot goes back farther than John XXIII.

Some objected to John taking a name that a Pope already had, even though the original was considered an anti-Pope.

And most of us consider Cranky Franky to have been an anti-Pope because he was elected after engineering B16 to abdicate.

You will find all sorts of conspiracy theorists in and out of the Church.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (a4NoL)

400
Time for a little Clement the XlV action?
Posted by: MkY at May 07, 2025 03:40 PM (cPGH3)



The original John XXIII. General, pirate, lawyer, antipope. When he was tried at the Council of Konstance, after each charge was read, he waved his hand and responded "I have done worse than that". Eventually in frustration, the prosecution asked him what was the worst thing he had done.

"I allowed myself to be brought here."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (y9nCu)

401 Their best trailer was the Breton Knight one.


The one where he fights the barbarian guy before the latter goes to find the necromancer? Yeah I liked that one

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (t0Rmr)

402 So the Pope.czlls.all the Cardinals and Bishops to Rome for a big announcement. He stands on the little balcony and calls for calm.
Pope says, "I got good news and bad news. The good news is
"Jesus is back!"
The crowd goes crazy. Bells.ring. men weep.
Pope raises his hands for silence.
"The bad news is he's in Salt Lake City."

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (W/lyH)

403 I'm all for traditionalism, but the last legitimate Pope, to me, was Pope John Paul II.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (2cS/G)

404 I wanted to make a Schrodinger’s Pope snark, but it just does not work☹️

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (PCK5/)

405 Well, I won't declare a favorite until after the swimsuit competition.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Cardinal Sarah oughta win that one handily.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

Until you remember it’s a bunch of old queens doing the judging..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (l3YAf)

406 “A group of ordained men meeting behind closed doors to make a consequential decision about the future of the church is textbook ‘old boy’s club.’”
_____

Curious how they would describe the men that were the Apostles.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:21 PM (Dv3i1)

They should send a dozen good old mother superiors to that author to smack their hands with a ruler for insolence. The scare stories about nuns with rulers were legend, though I got it once.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (8avO+)

407 What if there’s an actual fire? Fire department would think it’s a vote smoke.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (ImXfC)

408 Just for the record I think that gender reveal parties are some of the most crass, pointless, millennial stupid greed I have ever seen in my life. Baby showers and birth celebrations aren't enough, lets have ANOTHER party for you to have to bring gifts to! How about you just wait and see what you get when the baby is born? It worked for thousands of years of human history...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (2VST1)

409 When an antipope transitions, xhe becomes an unclepoope.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

410 391 Pope Nancy Pelosi?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

They'd have to delouse her first...

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:25 PM (a4NoL)

411 I'm all for traditionalism, but the last legitimate Pope, to me, was Pope John Paul II.
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (2cS/G)

I think the one who was forced out was ok. That's why they forced him out.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:25 PM (8avO+)

412 If pope and antipope meet, do they annihilate each other.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (6YdsJ)

They form one mega-pope and eject one to three high-velocity, subatomic popinos.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:26 PM (i24o9)

413 Pope Nancy Pelosi?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

They'd have to delouse her first...

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:25 PM (a4NoL)

You mean kill Nancy?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:26 PM (i24o9)

414 The scare stories about nuns with rulers were legend, though I got it once.

I loved in Blues Brothers where the scary nun beats the living hell out of them for blasphemy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)

415 412 If pope and antipope meet, do they annihilate each other.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:22 PM (6YdsJ)

They form one mega-pope and eject one to three high-velocity, subatomic popinos.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:26 PM (i24o9)

Lol

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:26 PM (PCK5/)

416
I have laughed so much reading this thread. We have so many clever and funny people here.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 07, 2025 04:26 PM (3ek7K)

417 If we could only have Japanese Colonel Sander's HFC Restaurants - life would be good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (pZ64F)

418 How about you just wait and see what you get when the baby is born? It worked for thousands of years of human history...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:24 PM (2VST1)

And if something goes horribly wrong? Until the child is born, nobody is out of the woods. Probably not great to celebrate until you know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (a4NoL)

419 In the 1200s one lasted 3 years.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (lpgaA)

Hopefully this one won't. They're all older men, yes? If it last three years there might not be anyone left.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (6RN9t)

420 You will find all sorts of conspiracy theorists in and out of the Church.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Yes. This is one of the reasons this Protestant is fascinated with the Papacy.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

421 Yeah, Benedict didn't bother me, but he also had very little impact as far as I can tell. John Paul II was more "legit" is my lazy way of saying he was more impactful.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (2cS/G)

422
I think the one who was forced out was ok. That's why they forced him out.


Supposedly he agreed to go in contrition for not doing enough to stop the molestation scandal.

Of course his replacement, The Red Pope, full on endorsed the molestors themselves claiming the victims were anti-christs.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (t0Rmr)

423 Do they sit around and find the Pope in the Pizza??

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:28 PM (PCK5/)

424 awful lot of them are, indeed, heretics, and they live in their own echo chamber.
==
Many degreed intellectuals. Not always a bad thing, but they are prone to intellectual pride. They think they can solve things with innovation.

Newsflash: You aren't here to fix the world, or save the planet you are here to fix yourself as best you can before you die. As a priest you confect, confess, baptize etc. You aren't running the UN or saving the whales or legitimizing the current cultural preferences of the public. You point to the rules, you admonish, forgive as necessary and instruct on the long term benefits of virtue using real life current and historical examples. It's a great job. Aside from the poverty, terrible hours, unpopularity, loneliness, lousy Healthcare and retirement.

Posted by: Keep praying at May 07, 2025 04:28 PM (vYNTx)

425 If we could only have Japanese Colonel Sander's HFC Restaurants - life would be good.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (pZ64F)
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Honshu Fried Chicken?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 07, 2025 04:28 PM (6YdsJ)

426 Im not Catholic or religious. But I do find the whole spectacle of choosing a pope pretty cool.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:28 PM (ImXfC)

427 Doesn't CBD have a good recipe for popinos?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:29 PM (PiwSw)

428 >>> 427 Doesn't CBD have a good recipe for popinos?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:29 PM (PiwSw)

Gotta sous vide that shit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2025 04:29 PM (Vqx30)

429 340 They should do it like a gender reveal.
Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 04:12 PM (RxTC7)
~~~~~

Where do you think the idea for gender reveals came from?!

Posted by: IrishEi at May 07, 2025 04:30 PM (3ImbR)

430 They have never made an Irish Pope, have they??

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

431 Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)
----
NEW PUPPY?!?!

Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (cIOlQ)

432 430 They have never made an Irish Pope, have they??
Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

=======

I seriously doubt an Irish pope would be any good these days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

433 Im not Catholic or religious. But I do find the whole spectacle of choosing a pope pretty cool.

people like and I would argue need pomp and ritual in our lives.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (2VST1)

434 They have never made an Irish Pope, have they??
Posted by: tubal

Yeah, as I mentioned above, I think that's odd.

You'd think they woulda elected one during the English Reformation just to stick it to the Tudors or the Puritans.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

435 Given that Hank Greenberg was the last great Jewish athlete, I think they won that trade.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Sandy Koufax was Jewish.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (vcOmj)

436 I thought the Church believed in multiculturalism? Just not in their yard? Hmmm....

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (029Oi)

437 433 Im not Catholic or religious. But I do find the whole spectacle of choosing a pope pretty cool.

people like and I would argue need pomp and ritual in our lives.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (2VST1)

Well there is the Met Gala, after all….

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (PCK5/)

438 You will find all sorts of conspiracy theorists in and out of the Church.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Yes. This is one of the reasons this Protestant is fascinated with the Papacy.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

Was reading a book about the early early Papacy and how much of its development was due to having to take on the secular rule of the city when the Lombards were taking the interior and hill country. They then needed lands outside the city to provide the accustomed welfare for the city and had lands in Sicily to do so. Then they needed a foreign policy to play the Lobards off each other. Every so often the Byzantines would haul off one to be jailed for some transgression.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

439

We've got a great big conclave voting through the night
We've got a great big conclave, ain't it a beautiful sight?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (63Dwl)

440 Have the "experts" ever said Trump was doing anything right or good?

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (RxTC7)

441 431 Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)
----
NEW PUPPY?!?!
Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (cIOlQ)


*give Daddy the side-eye*

Posted by: FSJ and Gertie at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (PiwSw)

442 430 They have never made an Irish Pope, have they??
Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

That'd be green smoke.

Posted by: m at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (CQE5S)

443 If they elect a black conservative, the left will freak out.

So I hope they do it!

Make Catholicism Catholic again. Bring back the real Mass. And get rid of the Kiss of Peace thing.

Posted by: PJ at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (RRCAT)

444 Every so often the Byzantines would haul off one to be jailed for some transgression.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah. They sent one Pope into exile in the Crimea.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

445 364 I have no faith in The men voting. But with God anything can happen. The Roman's say that a skinny pope always follows a fat one. Meaning historically the conclave elects a conservative after a liberal and a liberal after a conservative.

Who knows. We'll find out eventually. Where's Joe Sarto when you need him....
Posted by: Keep praying at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (vYNTx)

Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio ?

Our nation turns it's lowly (lonely?) eyes to you....

Where's Joe Isuzu when you need him?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (QGaXH)

446 Well, maybe the RC's can-if they have not already done so- consider asking the intercession of Pope John Paul II to pray for the conclave and a good, solid conservative to be chosen but I expect he's already praying.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (6RN9t)

447 @436 Have you seen the Cardinals? More diverse than a Multicultural Studies class at your local State U.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:35 PM (2cS/G)

448 Yeah, as I mentioned above, I think that's odd.

You'd think they woulda elected one during the English Reformation just to stick it to the Tudors or the Puritans.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

Until recently you could not travel to the conclave from Ireland much less be elected. Then most of the Cardinals were Italian.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:35 PM (8avO+)

449 Why not a Jamaican Pope?
Everyone will want to get in on that smoke

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 04:35 PM (gKWVE)

450 Chinese Pope would be lit…

Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:36 PM (PCK5/)

451 Have the "experts" ever said Trump was doing anything right or good?
Posted by: ...

Hollywood Reporter, Spike Lee: Trump Is Silencing His Critics!

-
You can hardly find any criticism of Trump!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 04:36 PM (L/fGl)

452 Until recently you could not travel to the conclave from Ireland much less be elected.

Why was that? Did the English prohibit it?

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

453 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2025 04:36 PM (PiwSw)

454 Interesting factoid: The last Pope who was elected on the first vote was Pius XII in 1939. It is historically less than 5% over 250+ Popes. Historians attribute the quick vote in '39 to being during WW2 in Europe, assuming the Cardinals didn't want to show instability.
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 04:16 PM (2cS/G)

Or the secret fact that that pope actually DID have 20 divisions of troops.
Posted by: Oldcat

Pope Pius XII was the Secretary of State to Pope Pius X. There is a great book out about him during WWII, called "Church of Spies", about the Vatican running agents and working assassination plots against Hitler during the war. This book is based on material that just was made public 10-12 years ago. It's well researched and a great read, like a thriller spy novel. There is another book that takes the same information and takes an alternate track, very critical of Pius XII.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 07, 2025 04:37 PM (vcOmj)

455 Yeah, as I mentioned above, I think that's odd.

You'd think they woulda elected one during the English Reformation just to stick it to the Tudors or the Puritans.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

Travel time. Storms at sea, contrary winds. And they don't wait a long time to get started.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

456 Chinese Pope would be lit…
Posted by: tubal

Wouldn't trust him. Frankie was always smooching Xi's ass.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

457 They have never made an Irish Pope, have they??
Posted by: tubal at May 07, 2025 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

That'd be green smoke.
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Popes by country
Africa
Turkey Argentina
Croatia England France Germany Greece Italian peninsula byzantine Palestine Dutch Poland Portugal Syria Spain.

No micks.

Posted by: Keep praying at May 07, 2025 04:38 PM (vYNTx)

458 https://www.vatican.va

Posted by: m at May 07, 2025 04:45 PM (CQE5S)

459 Sandy Koufax was Jewish.

See above about pitchers not being athletes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (2VST1)

460 The Women's Ordination Conference?

Pffff... The Ordination Conference for Women!!

Posted by: Monty Python at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (T0oeS)

461 Word on the street is BO and DNC rigged the election paying off the 'Slimes and Chi Comms, so we can expect a mulatto crippled dwarf (B.O.) as the next honcho wif duh high holy hardware. See if YOU can puff out white smoke from your bong. . . .Anyway . . .

Posted by: Ray at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (5wLuE)

462 And 45 minutes later you'd have to confess again.

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (T0oeS)

463
https://www.georgetown.edu/news/conclave-history

Posted by: m at May 07, 2025 04:58 PM (CQE5S)

464 We are all sedevacantists now.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (ZmEVT)

465
I read that-

Czerny wants the Dalai Lama to be the New Pope.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (iJfKG)

466 I'll probably regret this, but why would your dick sue your balls?

Thank you for asking that. I pretty much slept through Genitalia Litigation in law school.

Posted by: Nelly at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (pSknm)

467 Smoke on the Tiber.

A fire in the sky.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 08, 2025 06:59 AM (+6ukn)

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