I apologize ahead of time I don't mean to offend anyone

[4 t 4]

I am so very offended by the coverage of the conclave. I can't help but to think when I see older cardinals and when I see grey hair [ I know you can have grey at any time in your life] that these men have seen more than they are willing to admit. I wonder how many of these many men with red caps are Innocent ? I have a very hard time with that question. Why is the news watching and following them for face value, we know that is not true just by the numbers that have turned themselves in to repent.

[Whisp]

1. they are all celebate, like their fathers before them and their grandfathers before them. n/t

[Paulie]

3. Clones? nt

[Whisp]

5. that was a line from one of those dumb but hilarious Hot Shots movies I saw a few days ago. n/t

[Warpy]

2. If you mean their hands are dirty when it comes to enabling pedophile priests

and other renegades among the Catholic clergy, you're absolutely right. No one at or over the level of bishop can claim clean hands and won't be able to until this old guard is long dead and forgotten.

Catholics at the parish level are great. It's the hierarchy that is rotten and it has been so for many centuries.

[snooper2]

4. I kind of feel sorry for everyone watching the whole circus

I'm like, really?

Your baseboards aren't going to clean themselves

[Comrade_McKenzie]

6. There's also something about rituals that old that is creepy.

Yeah, it might've been fun to dress up and play religion when there was nothing else going on... but this is like watching a living monument.

[liberalmuse]

7. Useless old farts in the oldest "good" 'ol boys club in history.

They haven't stopped wars, or hunger, or human misery. If anything, they add to it with their closed-minded ideas and pious disregard for the real human condition. Fucking useless is what they are, and I reject them, and everything they stand for - the patriarchy, putting their boot on women, sexually abusing children, spewing vile nonsense about gays and enmassing wealth from the collective poor while helping to dumb down the masses by perpetuating superstitious bullshit along with the lie that we need spiritual guidance from men their ilk when we have everything we need already inside of us.

[4 t 4]

8. so it seems to me most of you agree....

that this big most important conclave is nothing but a dog and pony show. Once again if they are this high in rank and file they can barely be on the level. If they were they wouldn't make a red hat, right?????

[The Straight Story]

9. Reminds me more of our politicians and elections

We elect the same people in a sense over and over who cover up each others' crimes and protect businesses.