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11:53 AM
by Gene
Which will not stop us HIGH-AND-HOLY-CHURCH-GOING NEWS HACKS from CAMPAIGNING:The profile of a pope who knows how to communicate and to bridge cultural and religious divides fits a number of the 115 cardinals assembling in the conclave that begins Monday. Those contenders include Brazil's Claudio Hummes, Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio and Austria's Christoph Schoenborn.
Both Hummes, 70, and Bergoglio, 68, have been highly visible advocates for the poor, questioning the benefits of globalization and free-market policies. TRANSLATION: Please, please, PRETTY PLEASE, be for abortions, please, PLEASE!!!!!
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles dismissed the possibility of a pope from such countries as France or Germany, where "practically nobody goes to church."
"What we are looking for is how to have the future pope be somebody who represents a dynamic part of the world," Mahony said.TRANSLATION: Why not a country in a dynamic part of the world where practically nobody goes to church? FURTHER TRANSLATION: Why not ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!