Papacy and so forth

[soc_puppet]

This morning nekokenchan stopped by with a survey for a newspaper article. It was a lot of questions about the Pope and what I feel about it and that sort of thing. My favorite question was, "Who do you think the next pope should be?"

Socchan: Me, obviously.
'Kenchan: XD If you say that, I'll seriously write it.
Socchan: Sure thing ^_^ ! I think I would be a great candidate for the next pope.
'Kenchan: Okay, why would you make a good pope?
Socchan: Because I would totally allow priests to be female and to marry and the vow of celebacy to be non-mandatory. I could drag the Catholic church kicking and screaming into the twentieth century! Or the twenty-first, even. (Or maybe I shouldn't push my luck.)

Of couse, technically, I can't be pope -_- what with me being female and all. Technically speaking, any male Catholic can be pope. Of course, it'll almost certainly end up being one of the Cardinals in the Vatican, but the option is there.
(According to 'Kenchan's dad, there was once a female pope ^_^ Of course, she blew it by getting pregnant ^^; but that doesn't change that there actually was one. Now, of course, it's set up so there's this chair that the new pope has to sit on without his drawers on so the Powers That Be can tell that he really is a guy -_-. *sigh*)
Seriously though, I think I would make a fantastic pope, if a little unconventional.

...There was something else I wanted to talk about, but now I can't remember what it was. Oh, well. I'll figure it out eventually.

Comments

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

You know, I was fine with the whole "Pope Socchan" thing until I got to the line about how there's now a chair that the poep has to sit on without his drawers on. **scratches head** WHY can't there be a female pope? I'm a good little neopagan, so it's sort of a moot point for me, but I've always wondered. I mean, hey, Mary was good enough to be Jesus' mom, right? And the pope's a father to the Catholic faith; so why not a mother instead for a change? Juuuuuust curious..... Religious history's an interesting thing.

[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, the Catholic Church lives in a penis driven world. I see no problem with a female Pope, either. But then, I'm the kind of person who reads yaoi any spare chance I can get. ...Whatever.

[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Another note. Women CAN be Popes. However, there actually is no evidence to that Popess story from the middle ages. Pope Joan. But there is a woman from the UK running for the papal seat.

Oh yeah, just as a side note: When I was typing up my Pope story I discovered, upon rereading it, that every time I tried to write Pope, I actually wrote Poop. I'm so sorry.

[soc_puppet]

Well, more power to her, then.

Also, no need to apologize for that, really ^_^. I find it rather amusing. And every time I tried to write Pope, I actually wrote Pople ^^;

[soc_puppet]

Honestly? I have no idea what the Catholic church has against the female gender. I may find out eventually, but I don't know yet.

I swear, that chair will be the first thing to go. The Vatican could use some _serious_ remodeling. But, uh, not at parishioner's expense this time ^^;

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

I'm still not quite over the whole 'male gender chair' idea yet; think it traumatized me. HOW does a chair know if you're male or not? I mean, it this sort of a "Princess And The Pea" thing, only with the opposite gender and-- never mind, not thinking about this ANY further. Brain-sama is starting to squeak.

(...but HOW does a CHAIR know if you're male or female, for crying out loud? X_X)

[soc_puppet]

^^;;; The way I understand it, the chair is built in such a way that the Cardinals and such at the Vatican can physically see that the one seated in the chair is male, not that the chair itself can tell.

*is still cracking up over the Chair That Knew Gender*

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

**grin** Well, I *did* wonder... and I won't even comment on the whole 'they can see you' idea. I guess if the pope was female, that'd be even weirder. **rolls eyes** If I'm ever insane enough to be charge of a religion, I think I'll require that all my parishioners wear masks to services; it'll tell me LOTS about them.

...come to think of it, I *am* an ordained minister of the Universal Church of Life. Scary, huh? :D

[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

Actually, one of the cardinals gets to fondle the Pope just to make sure his *ahem* "family jewels" and penis are real.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

@______@........ I'm so glad I'm a pagan, I'm so glad I'm a pagan, I'm so glad I'm a pagan....... no offense to anybody's faith meant, though; I'm perfectly aware that at least 50% of of my fellow neopagans are utter freaking whackos (YOU try belonging to a sort of disorganized conglomeration of earthiests that venerate everything from Herne the Biker to Lawyergoddess-Hecate and see what it does to YOUR sense of reality sometime.)

[hallidae.livejournal.com]

I say John Cleese for Pope. His performace in 'Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl' was brilliant. XD

"Now tell me what in God's name possessed you to pain this with three Christs in it?!"

[soc_puppet]

Or maybe Goerge Carlin :)... He was great in 'Dogma'.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

No! No! CLINT EASTWOOD! **cheers wildly** "The Good, the Bad, and the Papacy".