People's hopes for a new Pope

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This morning, on my drive into work, I heard a bit on the radio about what young Catholics are hoping for in a new Pope. I’m a 34 yr old female. I would like to think I am still young. I have 2 children and I’m still married to their father. Maybe I’m a rare breed. I’m starting to think so. Anyway, what I heard on the radio was that many young Catholics are hoping for a Pope that will change the Catholic position on birth control, women priests and priests getting married. AM I the rare one that believes the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church and those wishing to change the Church should find a religion to pigeon hole their beliefs in ? There are thousands to choose from. Am I amoung a rare breed of Catholics ? Or is this the news media throwing out news bits in hopes that people will question their beliefs and walk with the crowd ?

My prayer is that our new Pope finds a way to strengthen the faithful, not water us down. I don’t care if there are only 50 true Catholics left on this earth, our Pope should be like a holy compass.
 
You may be rare, but I believe the Chruch will be seeing matters as you do. We will all be rejoicing in a few days when the media is announcing the “disappointing” news, that the Church continues on it’s path of saving men from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age (paraphrased) - Chesteron!
 
Take heart; the Shepherd will prevail, even over the treachery of his sheep.
 
Honestly, I think Cardinal Dolan would be the right man for the job. I saw his interview on CNN and that clinched it for me. He’s conservative, Christo-centric, charismatic, and versed in theology. If there’s a better Catholic for the job, I’d like to know who he is.
 
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Honestly, I think Cardinal Dolan would be the right man for the job. I saw his interview on CNN and that clinched it for me. He’s conservative, Christo-centric, charismatic, and versed in theology. If there’s a better Catholic for the job, I’d like to know who he is.
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There is, but he just retired. ba-dum tssss
 
kita04 said:
This morning, on my drive into work, I heard a bit on the radio about what young Catholics are hoping for in a new Pope. I’m a 34 yr old female. I would like to think I am still young. I have 2 children and I’m still married to their father. Maybe I’m a rare breed. I’m starting to think so. Anyway, what I heard on the radio was that many young Catholics are hoping for a Pope that will change the Catholic position on birth control, women priests and priests getting married. AM I the rare one that believes the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church and those wishing to change the Church should find a religion to pigeon hole their beliefs in ? There are thousands to choose from. Am I amoung a rare breed of Catholics ? Or is this the news media throwing out news bits in hopes that people will question their beliefs and walk with the crowd ?

My prayer is that our new Pope finds a way to strengthen the faithful, not water us down. I don’t care if there are only 50 true Catholics left on this earth, our Pope should be like a holy compass.
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Since the Pope cannot change the Church’s position on birth control and women priests (priests getting married is another story) as it goes against teaching, it would be better if young Catholics hoped instead to become better Catholics!

I think people, especially young people, who want the Church to “change” and be “contemporary” don’t really understand what the Church is. That’s why they won’t leave the Church - they’re probably too apathetic to look into her in more detail and too apathetic to look elsewhere.

I hope the new Pope is strong, young, comes out with a clear voice to tackle the problems that plague the Church and our world at the moment, and - this would be interesting - encourages bishops to become more vocal and active and, when necessary, engage in civil disobedience. Imagine our bishops were locked up - that would cause some healthy chaos! 🙂
 
wonder how often those “catholics” from the radio go to Mass? OR if they voted for Obama?:rolleyes:
 
I’m always extremely skeptical of reports that claim to speak for a large portion of the population. I’m your age, too, and I don’t want a new pope to do any of those things (and lucky for us, we know already that he won’t :)).

Really, it’s a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum. People like to assert that a large majority of people agree with them to make their opinion seem more credible.
 
I’m 33, and of the same opinion as yourself. JPII and Ben XVI, as far as I know, have appointed all the cardinal electors, so I won’t be expecting anything short of orthodoxy from any of the potential candidates. (Unless they hit us with another surprise and select outside the college of cardinals.)
The biggest problem facing the church, is how the hierarchy deal with crises and scandals.
( People blame the media. But if the Church acted, instead of waiting for things to simply go away, they’d have nothing to report. So PR and communication is less important than the systemic changes needed to inject accountability and transparency. The new pope needs to be a good leader from an administrative/bureaucratic sense. That way, he could follow through on what I believe Ben XVI hoped to achieve in that regard.
 
Monkey1976 said:
There is, but he just retired. ba-dum tssss
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classic.

I heard this morning on Catholic Connection that there was a brief moment where some of the cardinals played with the idea of trying to get Pope Emeritus “re-elected.”

I assumed it was all in good fun though.
 
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