Phew, glad that's over. Posting regular daily tripe as well as a guest pope was exhausting. Doesn't Benedict XVI look like the cat who ate the canary? Or, considering his German nationality, the canary sausage? He's a rock star now. Well, good for him. Given his advanced years, the old boy likely won't have anywhere near the durability of his predecessor. He better enjoy it while it lasts, though I suspect he'll spend most of his time keeping the women priests and the gays and the premarital procreators safely ensconced in hell where they belong. For me, this whole process totally demystified the papacy. I'd grown so used to the same guy being up there for so long, it's hard to credit the institution with much gravitas if they can just get a new pope when the old one wears out. And where are the post-election lawsuits? Don't the Catholics know how modern electioneering works? Now let's get back to important news, like whether or not Natasha Lyonne will attempt to sexually molest that dog now that she's on the run from the law.
Hey, I'm excited. And, he's a Bavarian too. It's so good to see that the Catholic church listened to their pilgrims and elected someone who would bring the church into the 21st century and modify some of those old outdated values. I mean, not wanting Turkey to part of the EU because they are Muslim seems like a perfectly modern and intelligent way of thinking about things.
Some people will never learn. The drop in people adhering to Catholic doctrine should tell them something. The church needs to be modernized. But, when you worship some all powerful God who is capable of anything yet has not really ever proven his existence except to some drug addicts in the desert 2,000 years ago, then reality and common sense is obviously not something you are too familiar with.
Still, I'm glad the new Pope is German. At least, until he dies in about four or five years.
Posted by: Karsten | April 19, 2005 at 05:53 PM
i think that men are more inportant than gods,just give me Jesus he did exist....exuse my inglish is as bad as the new pope, P:S great blog!!!!!!
Posted by: DANIEL HERRERA | April 19, 2005 at 07:55 PM
Daniel, your English is fine as long as you keep sending the love.
I'd forgotten the pope was Bavarian. How does Klaus feel about that?
Posted by: chris m | April 20, 2005 at 04:26 PM
The new Pope plans to excommunicate Santa Klaus for trying to usurp Jesus' birthday with evil materialism, gluttony and revelry!
Dogs that engage in non-stop barking-fests at 4:00 AM deserve whatever Natasha does to them!
JH
Posted by: JMH | April 21, 2005 at 01:49 PM
Klaus thought it was pretty good even though he hates Catholics with a passion because they forced him to sit outside in the freezing cold when they had mass and all because he was Lutheran. I think he was just glad a German was whispering into the ear of the Lord.
I almost forgot ...
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Glad to see you used a good musical reference for this one.
Posted by: Karsten | April 21, 2005 at 05:04 PM
Is he whispering into the Lord's ear or vice versa? or both? I guess if he's God, he's cabaple of stretching out his ear/mouth to do both at once. Good ol' stretchy god. As for the song lyric, I was one of about a jillion other people who used it... of course, all the others were ripping me off.
Posted by: chris m | April 22, 2005 at 12:26 PM