UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
The Vatican’s Clown Prince clique have convinced a majority of voting Cardinals to begin the election Conclave circus. Any other course, a month after the Shadow Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, threw in the towel and after eight contentious meetings to decide on a starting date, would just confirm to the 5,000+ media members present that Peter’s Barque, the Catholic Church, had already sunk.
The election circus will be held in the Sistine circus tent in two daily sessions for two days, then break for a day. By the fourth act on Wednesday, the Cardinals will most likely reach a decision because the three different groups of performing Cardinals will have made very clear their positions and level of support by then. The appearance of protracted conflict or indecision benefits no Cardinal. It will be clear by late Wednesday that further votes will be fruitless.
The Cardinals have only three options now:
(1) Maintain the hierarchical status quo and elect now another Pope, a Papal UberMensch or Superman, for life and hope for the best.
(2) Fix the Church leadership structure first now, and delay the election until a two-thirds consensus is reached on the needed repairs.
(3) Elect a new Pope now for a stated short term, perhaps three years, based the new Pope’s public commitment to call a council away from Rome to begin within a year to fix the Church structure and other problems by a majority vote. The Shadow Pope has just shown that Popes are no longer elected for life. If the new Pope, perhaps at the Vatican clique’s urging, were then to fail to honor his commitment, then another election would be held.
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