Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: fasano@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Cathy Fasano) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Keith Drake Sez Peter could not be a pope Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 91 08:12:35 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article conan@oreo.berkeley.edu (David Cruz-Uribe) writes: >In article djdaneh@pacbell.com (Dan'l DanehyOakes) writes: >>All true, but you see I was making leetle joke about RCC politics. The >>chances of a Jewish convert being elected to the Papacy are slightly better >>than those of a woman being elected. > >Actually, a jewish convert stands a good if not high chance of being elevated >to the papacy. Cardinal Lustiger (sp?), Archbishop of Paris is a convert and >is widely respected. Of course, Catholic memory is long, and everybody >remembers the disaster the last time a Frenchman was elected pope :-)! While we're on the subject of Cardinal Lustiger -- a book recommendation: _First_Steps_In_Prayer_, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, translated by Rebecca Howell Balinski, Doubleday, 1987. The book is based on a series of talks originally delivered over Notre Dame Radio. It focuses on straightforward practical steps -- prayer forms, prayer at specific times of day, how to fit prayer into a busy schedule, etc. It is aimed at Catholics, but any Christian could find it useful. (As for long Catholic memory... :-) Us wops think that any non-Italian pope is a disaster! :-) ) cathy :-) -- Cathy Fasano fasano@unix.cis.pitt.edu cathy@gargoyle.uchicago.edu "If this is the way you treat your friends, Lord, no *wonder* you have so few of them!" -- St. Theresa of Avila (after her mule had just dumped her uncermoniously in a river they were crossing)