Personally, I like the Italian prospects, they seem to be the most endearing autocrats in the whole conclave. On-line bookies give the best odds to Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milan. You look at his picture (photo #1) and think, what an old darling, vote him in. (He'll officially disapprove of us doing whatever we want, but I suspect we would still get away with it.)
The other Italian, a major long-shot, is Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, retired Archbishop of Milan. (photo #2, surrounded by drinks that are not martinis). He speaks 11 languages and is in regular correspondence with Umberto Eco. There is one impediment though, he is a WILY COYOTE JESUIT (photo #3), and the moment his papacy is announced he'll go and start Vatican III.
Most people are under the illusion that the big Vatican councils produce reform, but they mostly produce documents to be ignored. (one of my favourites was written on the subject of the rhythm method, by a panel of laity, married men and women, several of them declaring that method of birth control to be unreliable and idiotic. They went on to speculate that if all the Bishops had to stick a cold thermometer up their butts every day ... I paraphrase, but these sentiments were actually expressed.)
What Vatican II did produce was the spectacle of Nuns, suddenly dressed in navy blue a-line skirts, white blouses and sensible shoes, playing 12 string guitars and singing Hava Nagila. A Vatican III could result in something even more weird and wonderful, with the added benefit of pissing off Cardinal Ratzinger, Mel Gibson and Mel Gibson's dad. That's probably a good enough reason for Digital Media Tree to offer all its all its moral, financial and political backing to endorse the candidacy of Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, WILY COYOTE JESUIT (photo #3).
Von Bark says:"I am a big fan of Vatican II with those nuns (committing suicide) and their twelve-string guitars and if we could have more of that with disco soul muzak balalaikas (and a 'retro' return to Latin mass) then we could have a totally groovy Vatican III."
Von Bark so dark.
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Personally, I like the Italian prospects, they seem to be the most endearing autocrats in the whole conclave. On-line bookies give the best odds to Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milan. You look at his picture (photo #1) and think, what an old darling, vote him in. (He'll officially disapprove of us doing whatever we want, but I suspect we would still get away with it.)
The other Italian, a major long-shot, is Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, retired Archbishop of Milan. (photo #2, surrounded by drinks that are not martinis). He speaks 11 languages and is in regular correspondence with Umberto Eco. There is one impediment though, he is a WILY COYOTE JESUIT (photo #3), and the moment his papacy is announced he'll go and start Vatican III.
Most people are under the illusion that the big Vatican councils produce reform, but they mostly produce documents to be ignored. (one of my favourites was written on the subject of the rhythm method, by a panel of laity, married men and women, several of them declaring that method of birth control to be unreliable and idiotic. They went on to speculate that if all the Bishops had to stick a cold thermometer up their butts every day ... I paraphrase, but these sentiments were actually expressed.)
What Vatican II did produce was the spectacle of Nuns, suddenly dressed in navy blue a-line skirts, white blouses and sensible shoes, playing 12 string guitars and singing Hava Nagila. A Vatican III could result in something even more weird and wonderful, with the added benefit of pissing off Cardinal Ratzinger, Mel Gibson and Mel Gibson's dad. That's probably a good enough reason for Digital Media Tree to offer all its all its moral, financial and political backing to endorse the candidacy of Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, WILY COYOTE JESUIT (photo #3).
- L.M. 4-06-2005 7:17 am
Von Bark says:"I am a big fan of Vatican II with those nuns (committing suicide) and their twelve-string guitars and if we could have more of that with disco soul muzak balalaikas (and a 'retro' return to Latin mass) then we could have a totally groovy Vatican III."
- sally mckay 4-06-2005 8:00 am
Von Bark so dark.
- L.M. 4-06-2005 8:26 am