Originally posted by Cerberus
They should have chosen someone much younger than 78, I can\'t imagine anyone wanting to go through this shit again in 6 months time or so.
there wont be anything like they had for JPII. The huge funeral and the gathering of it had to do with what he did and his affect on other people, not as much as the fact that he was in a high position like the pope. This was the only pope funeral i was alive to remember for but im pretty sure they didnt do all the stuff because he was a pope.
I give the new guy couple years,heh. Like the 2 above, this is just a transition pope since it took like half a day for them to pick this guy. A lot of people are saying they dont like him because hes ultra-conservative. Like he helped made the changes in vatican 2 that made christianity uber liberal, then when JPII came in he wanted to reverse the changes and he became conservative....FLIP-FLOPPER!