Can anyone run for pope?

im sitting here in my school wondering if when the pope meets his Commander In Chief if anyone can run for pope. if so i think i would like to run, doesnt seem like a very hard job.

sidenote: BArs are funn ass hell when u take em in class with some silver dequilla mixed with Orange Juice. im feeling damn good.

I think you need to be a old cardinal for a long time before they will even think about looking at you.

If you've had your sacraments then yes. If not, no. You don't have to be a priest.

Sadly, the cardinals would never vote for anyone that wasn't a cardinal in this day and age.

The election of a pope is a conclave. You can only be elected if you are a Cardinal and under the age of 70. The oldest Cardinal of the Cardinals must handle the cermonial part and can't either be elected as pope. He can only be there as a spectator.

personaly I think that they should stop electing pope and make all of the Vatican grounds into a museum. Skip the religous.

[This message has been edited by M0rt (edited 04-01-2005).]

You don't run for Pope. It's not like an election where you hand out flyers and shit talk your opposition.

You also have to be above a certain age to run too, I think it may be 50.

But why would you want this pope to die? The reason for concern is that some academic, I cannot for the life of me remember his name, he lived some hundreds of years ago who made predictions (something like two words, or what their crest would be)on every pope, and all his predictions about the popes that we know about have been correct so far. But amazing as that may be, he also predicted that the world will end just two more popes from now.

Now I am not sure if he meant the whole world or the world of the church, but either way his predictions have been correct thus far, so I wouldnt be looking forward to another pope just now.

quote:Originally posted by bodomised:

You don't run for Pope. It's not like an election where you hand out flyers and shit talk your opposition.

quote:Originally posted by MadIndustries:

You also have to be above a certain age to run too, I think it may be 50.

Are you all fucking retards I just explaing how the god damn election is berformed.

But what can I demand of u religous freaks. You belive in something that doesn't even exist. Realise that there is nothing but science.

[CesareBorgia]

quote:Originally posted by M0rt:

The election of a pope is a conclave. You can only be elected if you are a Cardinal and under the age of 70.

Not true. Any single Catholic male can become the pope.

Faithfully Submitted,

Cesare de Borgia

quote:Originally posted by CesareBorgia:

Not true. Any single Catholic male can become the pope.

Maybe but being a cardinal and Italian really improves your chances.

quote:Originally posted by M0rt:

But what can I demand of u religous freaks. You belive in something that doesn't even exist. Realise that there is nothing but science.

Umm, shut the fuck up. I'm anything but a religious freak you fucking cunt. All the same though quit preaching your "anti-God religion is bullcrap" bullshit. That's no better than what the Church preaches.

Realise that you're an idiot.

I dont even remember posting this. i was really messed up. good info though.