A Sea Of Red

After all the politicking by our own Purple, he did not get the gig....

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/13/ca ... -new-pope/

Big upset. Although you may want to learn to spell his name.

First Pope from the Americas (Thank you Cortez)
First Latin Pope

Sola scriptura.

Purple Haize wrote:Big upset. Although you may want to learn to spell his name.

First Pope from the Americas (Thank you Cortez)
First Latin Pope

Sorry...must have been thinking of "Nobody put baby in a corner" Frances.

The Pope's coming to Lynchburg? That seems odd.

ALUmnus wrote:The Pope's coming to Lynchburg? That seems odd.

Graduation this year....

Got anything to back that up? The only Catholic church I can think of off hand is Holy Cross near downtown but that also strikes me as odd

BJWilliams wrote:Got anything to back that up? The only Catholic church I can think of off hand is Holy Cross near downtown but that also strikes me as odd

I could be wrong but I think he's being facetious.

Humble_Opinion wrote:

BJWilliams wrote:Got anything to back that up? The only Catholic church I can think of off hand is Holy Cross near downtown but that also strikes me as odd

I could be wrong but I think he's being facetious.

It shouldn't be a surprise that once again, he missed obvious sarcasm.

BJ...you never fail to disappoint...

ALUmnus wrote:The Pope's coming to Lynchburg? That seems odd.

We had a Mormon last year. I mean why not? We need to reach out to the Latin/Argentine demographic. Unless RG is upset he didn't get the nod.......

Sorry for missing it...check out The Chapel as to why...got something been botheing me since Sunday

Why did we get CNN to push Obama so we could get an American pope?

jbock13 wrote:Why did we get CNN to push Obama so we could get an American pope? :I chortle audibly.:

You would go political

jbock13 wrote:Why did we get CNN to push Obama so we could get an American pope? :I chortle audibly.:

Remember that time the media was so "confused" when Obama gave the pitch for Chicago to hold the next Summer Olympics and he failed?

ATrain wrote:

jbock13 wrote:Why did we get CNN to push Obama so we could get an American pope? :I chortle audibly.:

You would go political

No sense of humor?

Humble_Opinion wrote:

jbock13 wrote:Why did we get CNN to push Obama so we could get an American pope? :I chortle audibly.:

Remember that time the media was so "confused" when Obama gave the pitch for Chicago to hold the next Summer Olympics and he failed?

Or the Arab spring. Priceless.

I found it ridiculous (maybe ironic, if that fits) how ad nauseum and anxious the papal election coverage was by a media who will immediately mock, marginalize, and hate the new pope. I mean, serioulsy, they hype this up so much only to turn around and tell us for the next 20 years how irrelevant this guy is.

ALUmnus wrote:I found it ridiculous (maybe ironic, if that fits) how ad nauseum and anxious the papal election coverage was by a media who will immediately mock, marginalize, and hate the new pope. I mean, serioulsy, they hype this up so much only to turn around and tell us for the next 20 years how irrelevant this guy is.

Or how the Catholic Church hates gays, hates abortion and perpetuates AIDS by its stance on birth control. It's already started. They are 'disappointed' that the Church didn't elect someone who would change all of those things by early next week.

ALUmnus wrote:I found it ridiculous (maybe ironic, if that fits) how ad nauseum and anxious the papal election coverage was by a media who will immediately mock, marginalize, and hate the new pope. I mean, serioulsy, they hype this up so much only to turn around and tell us for the next 20 years how irrelevant this guy is.

Ratings.

adam42381 wrote:

ALUmnus wrote:I found it ridiculous (maybe ironic, if that fits) how ad nauseum and anxious the papal election coverage was by a media who will immediately mock, marginalize, and hate the new pope. I mean, serioulsy, they hype this up so much only to turn around and tell us for the next 20 years how irrelevant this guy is.

Ratings.

Beat me to it.

Its the perpetual question in today's journalism: should ratings drive content, or should content drive ratings?

JK37 wrote:

adam42381 wrote:

ALUmnus wrote:I found it ridiculous (maybe ironic, if that fits) how ad nauseum and anxious the papal election coverage was by a media who will immediately mock, marginalize, and hate the new pope. I mean, serioulsy, they hype this up so much only to turn around and tell us for the next 20 years how irrelevant this guy is.

Ratings.

Beat me to it.

Its the perpetual question in today's journalism: should ratings drive content, or should content drive ratings?

Do you guys get like a day off for his first Mass?

Hahaha, you funny man!

Not sure, honestly. But it was big enough news on campus that campus-wide emails were flying around all day about it. they threw something akin to a game watch in one of the student lounges for his first appearance and blessing. Thankfully, we were in Connecticut at the time.

There are a lot of Catholics in Hamden. I bet you would have won your semifinal if you had run out to grey smoke!

As it was, we gave #1 all they could handle. Up 9 in second half. But turnovers cost us down the stretch.