The Smoke is White

[SpursWoman]

Is that like saying the rabbit died? :angel




Don't know who, yet.....

[Clandestino]

Breaking News: White Smoke, Bells Signal Election of Pope
LAST UPDATE: 4/19/2005 11:19:56 AM
Posted By: CyberBob

By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY - The successor to John Paul II has been elected, Vatican Radio announced Tuesday evening. Bells chimed at St. Peter's Basilica and tens of thousands of flag-waving pilgrims filled the square, chanting: "Viva il Papa!" or "Long live the pope!"

The bells rang after a confusing smoke signal that Vatican Radio initially suggested was black but then declared was too difficult to call. White smoke is used to announce a pope's election to the world.

"It's only been 24 hours, surprising how fast he was elected," Vatican Radio said, commenting on how the new pope was elected after just four or five ballots.

More pilgrims were pouring into St. Peter's Square, and the bells were still pealing 10 minutes after the original tolling.

The 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church succeeds John Paul II, who gained extraordinary popularity over a 26-year pontificate, history's third-longest papacy. Millions mourned him around the world in a tribute to his charisma.

Cardinals had faced a choice over whether to seek an older, skilled administrator who could serve as a "transitional" pope while the church absorbs John Paul's legacy, or a younger dynamic pastor and communicator — perhaps from Latin America or elsewhere in the developing world where the church is growing.

While John Paul, a Pole, was elected to challenge the communist system in place in eastern Europe in 1978 the new pontiff faces new issues: the need for dialogue with Islam, the divisions between the wealthy north and the poor south as well as problems within his own church.

These include the priest sex-abuse scandals that have cost the church millions in settlements in the United States and elsewhere; coping with a chronic shortage of priests and nuns in the West; and halting the stream of people leaving a church indifferent to teachings they no longer find relevant.

Under John Paul, the church's central authority grew, often to dismay of bishops and rank-and-file Catholics around the world.

Even though John Paul appointed all but two of the men who elected the new pope, it was no guarantee that the new man would necessarily be in his mold.

Pope John XXIII was 77 when he was elected pope in 1958 and viewed as a transitional figure, but he called the Second Vatican Council that revolutionized the church from within and opened up its dialogue with non-Catholics.

The new pope will have to decide whether to keep up the kind of foreign travel that was a hallmark of John Paul's papacy, with his 104 pilgrimages abroad.

The new man may be locked into one foreign trip — the mid-August Catholic youth day gathering in Cologne, Germany. John Paul had agreed to visit and organizers have already spent millions of dollars in preparations

[jalbre6]

What does it smell like? Is it coming out of the broken window of Zak's car?

[1369]

Radio says he chose the name Benedict the 16th

[SpursWoman]

What does it smell like? Is it coming out of the broken window of Zak's car?


OMFG.....now I've got tea up my nose. Thanks.




:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[Shelly]

:lmao

Wait...Zak's the new Pope???

[bigzak25]

:smokin


it was offered, but i don't like hats, although the chauffeur service would have been nice....

Godbless the new Pope!

[gay abc]

OMFG.....now I've got tea up my nose. Thanks.




:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao


:lol

girl you really need to work on that swallowing technique before reading :lol

[SpursWoman]

I'm always open to pointers.......and keeping my hair sticky-free. :lol

[Useruser666]

Need a new keyboard?

[Shelly]

bah--User edited his post.

[Useruser666]

Are you a tattle tale?

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm always open to pointers.......and keeping my hair sticky-free.

http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030829/163344__somethingmary_l.jpg

I know whatcha mean SpursWoman!...

[gay abc]

I'm always open to pointers.......and keeping my hair sticky-free. :lol


rubber band for the hair

pointers (http://www.kamasutrafree.com/sucmanfruitf.html)

:lmao

[bigzak25]

"there's semen in your hair"

http://lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/vibrators-dot-com/itwasstp.jpg

[SpursWoman]

:lmao




Well, here's me at my last attempt at being sticky-free. But I never got to see if it worked.... :wtf


http://www.donkihote.com/images7000000/48111.jpg

[MannyIsGod]

Papal thread morphs into inuendo marathon. See you all in hell! ;)

[KEDA]

:lmao




Well, here's me at my last attempt at being sticky-free. But I never got to see if it worked.... :wtf


http://www.donkihote.com/images7000000/48111.jpg


Spurswoman

"In that picture you look alot OLDER!"

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao

[Sportcamper]

That’s how the Vatican communicates - puffs of smoke. Huh? Even Native Americans are going, "Get with the program! Geez, it’s 2005! We stopped with the smoke signal thing like 100 years ago.”

[Ocotillo]

http://www.daviesgeneralstore.com/ebay/upinsmokefigs.jpg

What color smoke?