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[edit] Dubious origins

I don't really get the "dubious origins" part. Sure we don't know anything about Ol' Peter himself, but Eleutherius in 174 CE is... still pretty damn early, even compared to just about any other institution. --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 10:29, 6 August 2007 (CDT)

Come to think of it, I don't really understand where the part about Eleutherius comes from, either. As far as I recall, Anacletus is the earliest bishop of Rome which we have some reasonably reliable sources about. --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 10:40, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
OK change it if you know better than me, please. It's not something I'm an expert on. Totnesmartin 02:34, 7 August 2007 (CDT)
Please feel free to rewrite (and improve). Just because our resident Catholic hater got here first, doesn't mean she owns the subject. humanUser talk:Human 05:05, 18 February 2008 (EST)

[edit] Retiring Popes

You may be right. I was thinking of JPII, for whom it was many times suggested. Editor at CP 12:05, 10 December 2007 (EST)

Yes, and I believe he himself also considered resigning after the Jubilee in 2000, but decided not to. In any case, I expect the question will come up again for pretty much every aging pope in the future, although there are some fairly complex issues involved. --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 12:20, 10 December 2007 (EST)

[edit] What if

The (generic/any) Pope goes mad/senile and ties the Papacy in knots/gives the Vatican to the poor/defrocks all the cardinals?

By odd coincidence he would die in his sleep. By the way, can you please sign your talk posts. See your talk page for details. --ConcernedresidentAsk me about your mother 19:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

And if the Pope is cunning as well as mad/senile/becomes so very slowly etc so it is not immediately obvious what is happening? Or decides to go in for salami/artichoke tactics? (The latter is the vegetarian version of the former.) What happens if 'by some strange mischance' all available cardinals are over 80 (and thus non-voting)?

It was apparently suggested that the Popemobile have a couple of machine-gun users on it, but the proposers were told 'the Pope does not fight back.'

[edit] Malachy's last prediction

Could refer to a natural disaster (eg Tunguska Event mark II/an earthquake) rather than 'a revelation of Antichrists' (any better suggestions for the collective nouns for antichrists?) 212.85.6.26 (talk) 16:57, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Was the the evolved weasel right to take all that out without discussion? Proxima Centauri (talk) 12:57, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes. ТyLonely. Ever so lonely. 13:33, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Other users wrote part of it and I don't see the problem with what I wrote. Proxima Centauri (talk) 14:30, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
That's nice. Тycommunications wire 14:32, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Oftentimes, the LANCBer cannot get his or her way because the forum is riddled with sycophants who gang up on them, even though the LANCBer is clearly correct. LANCB

I don't want to LANCB but I wonder if others are ganging up on me and trying to drive me out. Proxima Centauri (talk) 14:37, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

That's nice. ТyPlease do not click on this 14:49, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] so how bout that guy in alexandria whos also called pope?

Topic question. --Mikalosa (talk) 02:35, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

The what now? ArchieGoodwin (talk) 02:38, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
"Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria"/"Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle", leader of about 16 million people, so far been around 117 such popes (including the current one), broke away from the main body of Christianity in the 400's, largest middle eastern christian church?--Mikalosa (talk) 02:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Have at. ArchieGoodwin (talk) 02:45, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm not very good at writing articles >.> I just felt like reminding people theres another legitimate guy called pope and if they wanted to put him in they could--Mikalosa (talk) 02:47, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Give it a whirl in your sandbox. And have a little more self confidence. ArchieGoodwin (talk) 02:49, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
didnt the catholics split from the eastern orthadox ? which was first ? to whom did Peter give the keys ? Hamster (talk) 04:21, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Alexander Pope? 171.33.222.26 (talk) 19:14, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Nobody mentions

... the 1903 option for a split. 171.33.222.26 (talk) 16:13, 4 November 2013 (UTC)


[edit] Lucifer as God

Didn't the pope declare this? I remember hearing something about the Pope chanting or singing a hymn in Latin, declaring Lucifer as God. Thus, the RCC is Satanist...

He said Lucifer for sure, as Lucifer in Latin is... Lucifer... But the rest? I don't know Latin, so I am in no place to say the translation sources are giving are correct.

But still, I'm curious about this. Do you guys know about this?--GoodFight310 (talk) 21:23, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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