Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:27 am  

Mintball wrote:

Oi Gott! Nehmen Sie diesen Job an und schieben Sie ihn!

I feel your version is just a tad too polite.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:30 am  

If we really do have to have popes, dear god send us a better one than this w/nker.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:36 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I feel your version is just a tad too polite.

Yeah even though she forgot to put a cap S on Schieben. And "job" is just another awful word creeping into the german vocabulary.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:39 am  

The problem with all these Popes is that they're all careerists. Most of them haven't had a job outside the Catholic church.

No wonder most Catholics feel disenfranchised and probably won't even bother to turn up to vote for the next Pope. Show me a Pope who's had a career before entering the priesthood and I'll be first in line to vote at the Sistine Chapel.

But no I suspect the next Pope will be yet another member of the elitist and out of touch liberal intelligentsia that the inner circle of the Vatican has become nowadays.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:05 am  

Alex J wrote:

The problem with all these Popes is that they're all careerists. Most of them haven't had a job outside the Catholic church.

No wonder most Catholics feel disenfranchised and probably won't even bother to turn up to vote for the next Pope. Show me a Pope who's had a career before entering the priesthood and I'll be first in line to vote at the Sistine Chapel.

But no I suspect the next Pope will be yet another member of the elitist and out of touch liberal intelligentsia that the inner circle of the Vatican has become nowadays.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:26 am  

Rooster Booster wrote:

Hold on, that's not in the Guardian. I simply don't believe it.

Well they are in sensitive mode, it seems. The Telegraph is usually pretty good about a very light-touch moderation, but they've removed vast swathes of comments over night – strangely, these seem to be ones that were critical of the Pope and/or Catholic church. And I don't mean abusively so.

Nothing, it seems, must be allowed to get in the way of the Catholic-opwned Telegraph's fawning.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:35 am  

Couldn't he just have said that God told him to resign during their daily chats? Anyone who argued could be denounced as a heretic.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:38 am  

Does he still get his productivity bonus?

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:05 am  

Mintball wrote:

Well they are in sensitive mode, it seems. The Telegraph is usually pretty good about a very light-touch moderation, but they've removed vast swathes of comments over night – strangely, these seem to be ones that were critical of the Pope and/or Catholic church. And I don't mean abusively so.

Nothing, it seems, must be allowed to get in the way of the Catholic-opwned Telegraph's fawning.

Who owns the guardian these days? Or who runs the Guardian media Group these days? I've been out of the loop for many a year now....


besides I used to read the indy.

Re: Pope to Resign at end of Feb. : Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:29 am  

Rooster Booster wrote:

Who owns the guardian these days? Or who runs the Guardian media Group these days? I've been out of the loop for many a year now....

The Scott Trust still owns the group.

Rooster Booster wrote:

...besides I used to read the indy.

Owned by Alexander Lebedev these days.