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Re: New Pope Elected Yet?
My money is on Cardinal Angelo Scola the Italian Cardinal of Milan. I believe the last two Popes being the first non Italian Poples in a bazillion years they may return to tradition. Particularly since the largest contingent of voting cardinals are Italian. At the age of 63 he would be a relatively young pope but after the health issues of the last two much older popes this may be attractive. Old enough to be seasoned but not too old.
Jose Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is reported to have come in second in the last vote for Pope. However he is now 76 years old so age may be a major concern.
A compromise candidate could be Cardinal Peter Erdo the 60 year old Hungarian Cardinal. He is an expert on canon law and a highly respected University theologian. Kind of young though!
Three or four others are considered front runners for various reasons. Lots of speculation that because the area of growth for the RC church is Latin America that the new pope should come from that region.
Last summer our B&B was an apartment in a building across the street from the Vatican. Our apartment was on the 4th floor and looking out the kitchen window to the left you could see directly across the Vatican wall into the Papal Apartment building. We also were just around the corner from the entrance to the Papal museums that include the Sistine chapel were the votes are taking place. Literally a two or three minute walk for us. So I am visualizing all of the activity from the perspective of having been there last summer for the first time since 1976 when I was a teenager in Italy!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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