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Spider Jerusalem

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3. It won't be any of the American candidates.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 02:24 PM

Mar 2013

Isn't going to happen because the USA as global superpower is perceived as being directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of the miseries of the developing world...where the Church's greatest numbers of new adherents come from. If it's a moderate it'll be Schönborn.

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"I think it could be Tim Dolan of New York . . . Cardinal Dolan . . . . is a moderate and . . . ." [View all] Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 OP

Actually, the Cardinal is pretty casual. He is on SiriusXM's Catholic Channel pretty often. onehandle Mar 2013 #1

Dolan is no moderate and he is pretty partisan for a cardinal ck4829 Mar 2013 #2

It won't be any of the American candidates. Spider Jerusalem Mar 2013 #3

I predict the guy from Quebec. RZM Mar 2013 #4

The Cardinals/Bishops are henchmen for the political right. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #5

He is easily the most annoying of the many heads that chatter on the teevee. Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 #7

I watched Dolan in action in Milwaukee, he's charismatic and positive HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #6

Really atreides1 Mar 2013 #8

Compared to many European cardinals, he is. Drunken Irishman Mar 2013 #9

I may be mistaken, but I believe Mathews said PearliePoo2 Mar 2013 #10

Fat chance it's dolan... Javaman Mar 2013 #11