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[threeplusfire]

Well Tom, I eat my hat. They did make Ratzinger Pope. I am extraordinarily interested.
I wish I was there, to see it in person.

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[frostwalrus.livejournal.com]

Would you like some catsup for that hat?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Silly heathen, cardinals aren't for eating!

[frostwalrus.livejournal.com]

Not for the cardinal, but for the hat that you are eating. You can have catsup or ketchup, your choice.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a hat like that.

What is the difference, if any, between catsup and ketchup? this has always baffled me.

[feu-de-fripe.livejournal.com]

read "the man who ate everything"
there is a chapter on ketchup

[frostwalrus.livejournal.com]

I don't quite know, ask Mr. Burns, he was having that predicament in the grocery store

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll just deep fry the hat and use horseradish.

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit taken aback, too.

But, Joe-Joe is 78, which means his papacy could last anywhere from 2 to 8 years, but surely not longer than a decade. Maybe there was a tacit agreement amongst many of the cardinals who left seminaries during the late '50s and '60s to do this so the church could clean up its internal affairs, get its donkeys reattached to the Catholicism carriage, and basically find a Papa Pro Tem while this happens. In the meantime, I'm wondering if a younger cardinal comes to the fore -- a moderate, quite possibly from Central or South America -- who becomes the favorite to be the 266th successor to Peter. I'm thinking: Papal Legacy Buffer Zone.

I dunno. In some photos, Ratzinger / Benedict XVI looks a bit scary. In others, he looks like a pastor straight out of a Duerer woodcut or gothic portrait.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think they clearly wanted a shorter papacy in this go round.

He does look more grim to me, around the eyes. You're right, straight out of a gothic portrait.