Okay. As of 2001, JP 2 had appointed 125 of the 135 cardinals who were then eligible to vote. Because you have to be under 80 to vote, some of the remaining 10 may have aged out since then.
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Feb 01, 2005 2:11:02 pm PST #2978 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - Feb 01, 2005 2:12:53 pm PST #2979 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
ita, I'm not clear on the theology, but I *think* it is possible for one Pope to reverse encyclicals put out by a previous Pope. Humanae Vitae (the anti-contraception one) wasn't officially promulgated as being infallible, so another Pope could in theory reverse it. Don't hold your breath.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 2:17:39 pm PST #2980 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't hold your breath.
That way lies breathing crisis?
Betsy HP - Feb 01, 2005 2:22:29 pm PST #2981 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
That way lies breathing crisis?
Yup. But probably without the CNN headlines.
Betsy HP - Feb 01, 2005 2:24:23 pm PST #2982 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I was Googling and I found this, which tickled me.
As for the 475 cardinals created in the 19th century, the longest lived seems to have been the French Jean Baptiste de Belloy-Morangle, who was also the inventor of the filter for the coffee machine, and who died in June 1808 at 98 years and eight months, having been nominated Archbishop of Paris in 1802, when already over ninety, and made a cardinal the following year by Pius VII.
He's a Cardinal and a barista!
Lyra Jane - Feb 01, 2005 2:47:10 pm PST #2983 of 10002
Up with the sun
I MUST be hormonally charged, because I'm going "ew" at "Butterfly Kisses" but it's still making my eyes all moist. (sorry.)
Smoking in prisons by inmates and guards will become illegal on 1 July 2005.
Ah, just what we need, a bunch of bored, nic-fitting violent felons. But at least they won't get lung cancer!
Beverly - Feb 01, 2005 2:48:57 pm PST #2984 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I shuddder to think what the new form of currency might be.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 2:49:49 pm PST #2985 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But at least they won't get lung cancer!
I imagine any smokers on death row are rolling their eyes eternally.
Daisy Jane - Feb 01, 2005 2:49:59 pm PST #2986 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It's Tuesday. There should be Buffy on my TiVo.
Alibelle - Feb 01, 2005 3:02:20 pm PST #2987 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I'm going to go sit with Heather, in the perfect world.