Who Will be the Next Pope.....

[Maxmars]

The media is trying to reproduce it's "fan power" mentality.

They are (as per usual) portraying the selection of the new Pope as a "reality TV show" with frontrunners, and 'favorites'
as if it were a game show and the new Pope will be the "winner"... rather than the Vicar of Christ.

It's a terrible thing which flies easily in media world since they have the background music, the great stock footage,
and years of practice dramatizing things...

This is no game... there are no winners... being Pope isn't something you should be "proud" of... it's not
an achievement any more than being the Lamb of God is...  in fact, given the context, being selected for
that role is something anyone sane person should fear.

[NoCorruptionAllowed]

The media is trying to reproduce it's "fan power" mentality.

They are (as per usual) portraying the selection of the new Pope as a "reality TV show" with frontrunners, and 'favorites'
as if it were a game show and the new Pope will be the "winner"... rather than the Vicar of Christ.

It's a terrible thing which flies easily in media world since they have the background music, the great stock footage,
and years of practice dramatizing things...

This is no game... there are no winners... being Pope isn't something you should be "proud" of... it's not
an achievement any more than being the Lamb of God is...  in fact, given the context, being selected for
that role is something any sane person should fear.

Well said. Made me think how what the US media is are the biggest false prophets that ever lived since Mohammed. Maybe I'm out of line, but that's what I see.

[FlyersFan]

Why exactly are we discussing the choosing of a new figurehead of a corporation?

For 1 billion people around the world, the pope is not a 'figurehead of a corporation' but is the head of the Church on Earth that Christ Himself started.  The Pope stands in the shoes of The Fisherman.   For 1 billion people it is important 'eternity' stuff and worthy of discussion.

[TzarChasm]

The media is trying to reproduce it's "fan power" mentality.

They are (as per usual) portraying the selection of the new Pope as a "reality TV show" with frontrunners, and 'favorites'
as if it were a game show and the new Pope will be the "winner"... rather than the Vicar of Christ.

It's a terrible thing which flies easily in media world since they have the background music, the great stock footage,
and years of practice dramatizing things...

This is no game... there are no winners... being Pope isn't something you should be "proud" of... it's not
an achievement any more than being the Lamb of God is...  in fact, given the context, being selected for
that role is something anyone sane person should fear.

If there were consistent and diligent intervention occurring, I would agree. But as everyone else has said it's more of a scholastic, pontificating role than being literal avatar for the creator. You don't see the pope multiplying loaves or curing lepers and such. In fact there isn't much indication of divine favor at all in recent years. Tradition insists on the relevance of the Vatican more than any capacity to appeal for holy exculpation or miracle medicine.

[MonkMode]

Why exactly are we discussing the choosing of a new figurehead of a corporation?

It has been around a long time, has lots of financial power, and is more or less just an extension of the Roman empire.

Is this supposed to be of any significance other than something like choosing a mob boss?

I don't get it.

The last pope croaking exactly on Easter seems pretty significant.

I’m just following the story to see if that winds up being a meaningful coincidence.

[FlyersFan]

Why exactly are we discussing the choosing of a new figurehead of a corporation?

Read up.   It's important.   Globalist/NWO implications.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin - #2 in Command and Pope Front Runner - Orchestrated this devils deal with China - and yes, who is pope does effect everyone.  It's part of the NWO Globalist take over ... or it's part of the blocking of the take over ... depending on who gets in.

Archbishop Vigano - "Vatican China Deal is Essential to Globalist Plans for New World Order

The subservience of the Bergoglian church to Beijing

Without China there is no globalization, no financialization, no digitalization. Without China it is not possible to achieve that Great Reset based on the dismantling of the power of the (Christian) West through programmed de-industrialization and Islamization. The goal is the transformation of man into a number.

Among the protagonists of the Sino-Vatican Secret Agreement is also the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, who spoke at the 47th World Economic Forum in Davos in 2017, at the Bilderberg Group meeting in 2018, and at the United Nations “Adaptation Summit” on climate change in 2021.
 
It is not surprising that Parolin now enjoys the maximum support of the communist dictatorship of Beijing and all its emissaries and sponsors, both lay and ecclesiastical.
 
The president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Matteo Zuppi, is also a supporter of the secret agreement, as an expression of the Community of Sant’Egidio and its founder, Andrea Riccardi.

[FlyersFan]

MY CHOICE ... 

Cardinal Sarah Has More of a Chance at Becoming Pope Than You Might Think

Cardinal Peter Erdő is believed to be the conservatives’ primary candidate. Nevertheless, in the scenario he does not secure the necessary two-thirds majority to win in the first few rounds of voting, speculation has considered it possible the faction may switch to Sarah and advocate him as a secondary candidate. 
 
Sarah is known as a serious administrator and respected as a man of profound faith. His reverence for the rigorous Carthusian monastic tradition led him to write The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise – a work of profound assistance to Catholics around the world in their prayer life and relationship with God, which earned Sarah high esteem across divides.  
 
Moreover, his position as a senior prelate from the Global South is likely to be appealing to those who wish to realign a rapidly changing Church along a less Eurocentric axis. The present College of Cardinals has the largest number of cardinal-electors from outside of Europe in the history of papal conclaves, more closely resembling the global distribution of Catholics across continents.

[FlyersFan]

Archbishop Vigano Quote

Viganò concluded that unless “the shadows cast over Bergoglio’s legitimacy are dispelled, the conclave will see its authority compromised.”

hmmmmm ... yeah ... Bergoglios legitimacy is highly questionable.

[justsomedude]

For 1 billion people around the world, the pope is not a 'figurehead of a corporation' but is the head of the Church on Earth that Christ Himself started.  The Pope stands in the shoes of The Fisherman.   For 1 billion people it is important 'eternity' stuff and worthy of discussion.

I apologize if what I am about to say offends anyone, but I believe it to be true.

Just stepping back and observing any modern day Pope and their day to day life, it is hard to imagine that the Pope has anything to do with Jesus Christ.

It is much easier to reconcile the Pope being the Antichrist than being in the lineage of Jesus. The Catholic Church has a long history of atrocities. The ceremony and the attire of the Pope is the exact opposite of the way Jesus spent his time on Earth. To contrast, the Pope has a very splendid suit he wears in public and travels in great splendor, while Jesus mocked these things by wearing the clothes of a poor person and riding in to Jerusalem not on a mighty steed but on a humble donkey.

Just to be clear, I don't think Catholics are bad people, but I do believe they have been deceived. Hopefully, their eyes will be opened soon.

[FlyersFan]

Another UGH.
Liberal Cardinal, claiming to speak for all of Catholicdom, says "everyone wants another Francis".

Hopefully this German Cardinal is wrong, and the other German Cardinal (Mueller) is right when he said that another Francis is the last thing the church needs (he didn't say those words, but that's what he meant).

Catholic Vote - German Cardinal says Everyone Wants a New Francis

VATICAN CITY // According to German Cardinal Walter Kasper — a leading progressive voice and close ally of Pope Francis — ”everyone” in the Church wants a new Francis. 
 
In an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa, Cardinal Kasper, who is not a cardinal-elector but participates at the general congregations, emphasized what he believes is the “enduring influence of Pope Francis” and the overwhelming desire among the faithful for a pontiff who will carry forward his legacy.
 
“Look carefully around St. Peter’s and St. Mary Major — where Pope Francis tomb is located — and ask the crowd: Everyone will answer that they are waiting for a new Francis. Without looking for a photocopy, I am convinced that we will continue along Bergoglio’s line. I have spoken about it with many cardinals.”