New Pope Selected

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Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:40AM from the holy-smokes dept.

Freshly Exhumed sends this quote from CBC: "Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been selected as Pope of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He will be known as Pope Francis. He is the first Pope from the Americas. The 76-year-old was the runner-up to Benedict XVI during the last conclave. He is well-known for his humility and espouses church teachings on homosexuality, abortion and contraception. He has no Vatican experience."

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oh cool.. by kuk_Bone · 2013-03-13 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny

"Goes back to work"
1. Re:oh cool.. by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2013-03-13 08:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If the new Pope is not made of chocolate, and filled with marzipan, then I'm not interested.
  Unless he has a jet pack. Or a robot named "Muad'Dib".
  
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2. Re:oh cool.. by Valgar · 2013-03-13 08:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No, dummy, RTFS. Pope Francis.
  Settle down, Francis.
3. Re:oh cool.. by Sloppy · 2013-03-13 09:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  Don't understate the importance of this. I heard the new pope uses emacs instead of vim (because "my fingers learned that one on the dvorak keyboards in the seminary"). And yet, he prefers python3 over scheme. Runs it all on Mac OS 10.4 and won't upgrade to 10.8, because
  he can't get his Zune to sync with later-than-10.4 anyway
  Driver issues with his Piledriver-APU-based Hackintosh
  10.4 reminds him slightly more of his old Atari ST (and I quote: "fuck you Amigoids, yuor all going to hell 4ever!!!11")
  invisible scrollbars and a wrong default scroll wheel direction, are an abomination before The Lord
  I don't care if you don't see any geeky controversy here; the python3 thing is important. The new pope is saying fallible things on the Internet!
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4. Re:oh cool.. by Stormy+Dragon · 2013-03-13 09:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's getting the same coverage that a casting change in Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or any other long running fantasy series would get.
News for nerds? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-13 07:43 · Score: 5, Funny

What is his favorite distro? views on FOSS?
1. Re:News for nerds? by Sepultura · 2013-03-13 08:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He's religious and intolerant, so obviously his favorite OS is Emacs.
2. Re:News for nerds? by macromorgan · 2013-03-13 09:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He's religious and intolerant, so obviously his favorite OS is Emacs.
  He's religious and intolerant, so obviously his favorite OS is . . .
  . . . the Spanish Inquisition . . . !
  Honestly, I didn't expect it.
So what religion does he belong to? by Marrow · 2013-03-13 07:47 · Score: 5, Funny

linux, mac, vi, or emacs? :)
1. Re:So what religion does he belong to? by j00r0m4nc3r · 2013-03-13 08:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Eunuchs
Re:So.... by ShanghaiBill · 2013-03-13 07:54 · Score: 5, Funny

So nothing important is going to change then? Or am i misreading that?
The World will continue to change, but the Catholic Church will not be leading those changes. Here is a car analogy: If the World was a car driving down the freeway of life, the Catholic Church would be a parking brake that was not fully disengaged, thus impeding progress slightly and emitting a bad smell.
Re:So.... by bluefoxlucid · 2013-03-13 07:56 · Score: 5, Funny

That's kind of the point of religion. It's not supposed to be very dynamic. It's supposed to be a set of guiding morals, for example Buddhism's guiding moral of "Don't Be A Giant Dickhead." This hasn't changed to "It's Okay To Be A Giant Dickhead When It Makes You Feel Better" or "Be A Giant Dickhead, But Only To Politicians And Wall Street Bankers." Now times are changing and it's probably not really terrible to be a giant dickhead to Wall Street bankers, but eh. That's not what Buddhism is about.

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Oh well. by Minwee · 2013-03-13 07:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Better luck next time Richard Stallman.
In related news ... by PPH · 2013-03-13 08:00 · Score: 5, Funny

... still only black smoke from the US Congressional budget committees.

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Re:So.... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-13 08:16 · Score: 5, Funny

So nothing important is going to change then? Or am i misreading that?
The World will continue to change, but the Catholic Church will not be leading those changes. Here is a car analogy: If the World was a car driving down the freeway of life, the Catholic Church would be a parking brake that was not fully disengaged, thus impeding progress slightly and emitting a bad smell.
To continue the car analogy and to point out the differences, while the Catholic Church may be wearing the parking brake out, the evangelical Christians are trying to throw the car in reverse. And all while they are in a fist fight with the Muslim fundamentalists (who are also looking for reverse) over who's hand will be on the shift lever. Meanwhile, the Quakers are pointing out that one should use the clutch when shifting gears and the Pastafarians are looking for a different car in which to ride.
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 by ebno-10db · 2013-03-13 09:26 · Score: 5, Funny

or of that role being hereditary
That's something the papacy has generally avoided.
Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 by SteveFoerster · 2013-03-13 11:29 · Score: 5, Funny

I heard this guy is the logical choice, since who better than an Argentinian to offer sanctuary to a German with human rights abuse issues?

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