March Madness: Who wins the Sweet Sistine and becomes Pope?

[Bucknut24]

guess i went in the wrong thread, new pope elected

i'm guessing it's the guy from Milan

 

[ScriptOhio]

ABC News just reported WHITE SMOKE.

 

[Bucknut24]

yea with this being so quick, it's gotta be Scola

 

[Bucknut24]

80% from Italy, man I wish they would branch out

 

[Merih]

Habemus Papam!

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

yea with this being so quick, it's gotta be Scola

Supposedly the other Italian Cardinals don't like him because he's liberal, more in line with the North American Cardinals, and the other Italian Cardinals are conservative.

 

[ScriptOhio]

It's some guy from Argentina.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

 

[Bucknut24]

First time we have a Pope from the Americas

very exciting

 

[BayBuck]

Supposedly the other Italian Cardinals don't like him, because he's liberal, more in line with the North American Cardinals, and the other Italian Cardinals are conservative.

Everything I read about Scola suggests he's actually more doctrinally conservative, in the vein of Ratzinger, but is not from within the Vatican bureaucracy/"curia".

 

[Bucknut24]

 

[buckeyegrad]

Everything I read about Scola suggests he's actually more doctrinally conservative, in the vein of Ratzinger, but is not from within the Vatican bureaucracy/"curia".

That is what I read as well. Doctrinally conservative, but a strong supporter of social justice--comes from his background as a Jesuit, no doubt. He's also 76 years old, so it looks like the Cardinals were looking for another status-quo pick in order to prevent anyone who could shift the Church and have a long reign. At least they went with a non-European, which was due considering the truly global demographics of Catholicism.

 

[Piney]

It's some guy from Argentina.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

It's been a good gambling day for me today... First the Iditarod and now the pope...

 

[buckeyegrad]

Looks like the selection was tampered with. I want my money back.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130314-maduro-claims-chavez-swung-race-argentine-pope

"We know that our commander has risen up there and is face to face with Christ," Maduro said, to an outburst of laughter at a political event, just over a week after Chavez died following 14 years in charge of Venezuela.

"Something must have influenced things so that a South American pope was chosen. Some new hand arrived and got to Christ and said: It is South America's time. That's what I think," Maduro, Chavez' handpicked successor, declared.