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[alice wellintown]

While the Press will focus on sex abuse, corruption, female priests,
marriage of priests, of gays, pro-choice, contraception, etc., these
issues, that must be pressed by the press, this new pope has signaled that
he will put his focus on the poor, the environment, the broken and damaged
church. As a Society of Jesus man, he has taken the vow to poverty; though
he has distanced himself from Marxist Theology, he may be a great Francis.
Who knows?  A great move by the FCC here. While the rich worry about who
gets to marry, the poor, the focus of this new pope, have more pressing
concerns.
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, rich wrote:

> and he's a fucking Jesuit
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/new-pope-saint-francis-031313
>>
>> "Most important, he's 76-years old which means, quite honestly, that the
>> man's a caretaker, or that there is a real faction within the
>> cardinal-electors arrayed against the idea of very long papacies on the
>> order of that of John Paul II.
>> [...]
>> The longer a pope reigns, the more indelible a mark he puts on the
>> Church, and it is possible — probably likely — that the Curial members of
>> the Clan Of The Red Beanie once again hedged their bets. The likelihood of
>> this crew electing a real reformer was slim enough anyway — Thanks to the
>> last two popes, there weren't many real reformers in the room — but it is
>> possible that the papacy could change a man from a safe bet to a guy who
>> would inconvenience the power of the institutional church, so better to
>> vote for a guy with the actuarial tables lined up against him."
>>
>
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