Next Vatican - Ideas

[yawn]

https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/world-news/who-are-the-frontrunners-to-be-elected-next-pontiff-after-pope-francis/

[yfr bachur]

What? The yated doesn't have any part in deciding?

[yawn]

What? The yated doesn't have any part in deciding?

No. They just come in when decisions are already made and blow smoke.

[yawn]

FWIW, the betting markets have 2 clear favorites. Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, and Tagle, of the Philippines, who is known as the “Asian Pope Francis.”

[yfr bachur]

Pope Francis

The only relevance for me is who his replacement will be, and what that person does.

[Dan]

Pope Francis

The only relevance for me is who his replacement will be, and what that person does.

Seems like the trend is more and more liberal?

I am curious how conservative Americans reconcile that with their belief system.

[yelped]

Seems like the trend is more and more liberal?

I am curious how conservative Americans reconcile that with their belief system.

I guess this is the נהפכה מלכות למינות stage?

[jye]

Seems like the trend is more and more liberal?

I am curious how conservative Americans reconcile that with their belief system.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/conservative-catholic-maga-pope-vance-b2a4497b?mod=mhp

[Dan]

Seems like the trend is more and more liberal?

I am curious how conservative Americans reconcile that with their belief system.

I guess like this?
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1914484409970942029

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1914439075597029719

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1914329560222495116

[Shauly101]

i read this as next VACATION-ideas and was WHY was this thread moved? 

[CountValentine]

I wonder how everyone would feel if jokes/parodies were posted about Menachem Mendel Schneerson when he died?

[Dan]

I wonder how everyone would feel if jokes/parodies were posted about Menachem Mendel Schneerson when he died?

Oh, I heard plenty of that in my school from students and teachers alike...

Considering the BB is owned/run by Catholics, it seems like their feelings are fair game, no? As were Jews opposed to the Rebbe in my elementary school.

But yes, hence why I split off the responses from the RIP thread.

[chinagel]

I wonder how everyone would feel if jokes/parodies were posted about Menachem Mendel Schneerson when he died?

I didn't like him either, but to compare him to the pope?!

[Dan]

I didn't like him either, but to compare him to the pope?!

You never told or laughed at a "closest religion to Judaism" joke?

[chinagel]

You never told or laughed at a "closest religion to Judaism" joke?

I'm sure I did.

[chinagel]

I was invoking the story of the Litvak who saw Chasidim at a yahrtzeit seudah for their Rebbe. He wondered to himself "I also didn't like him, uber azoi veit?!"...

[Dan]

I'm sure I did.

And now you start kavayocholing?

[chinagel]

And now you start kavayocholing?

I was invoking a funny joke, not sure what you're getting so upset about.

[zh cohen]

I wonder how everyone would feel if jokes/parodies were posted about Menachem Mendel Schneerson when he died?

As a wise man says -

Post tragedy threads on DDF have the sensitivity of an elephant walking over potato chips.

[yfr bachur]

I wonder how everyone would feel if jokes/parodies were posted about Menachem Mendel Schneerson when he died?

I was a small child, but over the years I've made them...

The recently departed dear leader was quite a divisive figure within his own faith - so I'm pretty sure he set himself up for this. Some pretty devoted catholics have been quite vocal about their not so warm feelings to see him go...