POPE HAS DIED

motogeezer wrote:

Beleive it or not, being the Pope is one of the most powerful positions a man can hold.

Think about the influence he has over Catholics of all nations.

That influence has the potential to affect us all in many ways, and often does.

It would almost stink to be the pope though, sure he's got the sweet pad...but he can't have ladys or.....

....dirtbikes

When does a new pope get elected?

lol, good question Brian, i have no idea!

TenEightySalomon wrote:

Haha, it's ok motogeezer,Now that you possibly offended both thousands of christians and Schiavo supporters. Haha no problems by me though!

offended christians? I hope u mean catholics

Yup, my mistake. As you can see, I'm not the most religious.

However I do believe the Pope was a good guy who has done many good things in his time.

Wonder now who gets to drive around the Popemobile?

John Paul III???

^^^^John Paul George & Ringo.

Wow! I just went all Goatours!

motogeezer wrote:

^^^^John Paul George & Ringo.

Wow! I just went all Goatours!

hoot and holler

.......
and i agree with #4 that

Popemobile?

do you agree?

now this is how goatours types

what a desert race

You are way more Goatours than I can ever be.

Grizzly600 wrote:

motogeezer wrote:

Beleive it or not, being the Pope is one of the most powerful positions a man can hold.

Think about the influence he has over Catholics of all nations.

That influence has the potential to affect us all in many ways, and often does.
It would almost stink to be the pope though, sure he's got the sweet pad...but he can't have ladys or..... ....dirtbikes

AHHH THAT WOULD BE THE WORST.....I COULDNT LIVE WITHOUT THEM!!!

I am not Catholic, but Christian and thought of the Pope as a good guy but he wasn't a religious leader to me. He is a world leader who had good ideas, thoughts, hopes, and plans. When a man can speak 16 different languages fluent he is a pretty wise guy.

you guys suck at being Goatours. what you gotta do, see, is copy and paste random webpages somewhat related to the topic

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The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches (note that the name within the communion is simply "the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church," a title also claimed by, and thus disputed by, both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion). The office of the Pope is informally called the Papacy and formally called the Pontificate; his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the Holy See (Sancta Sedes). Catholics worldwide consider each pope to be successor of Saint Peter who was, according to tradition, first bishop of Rome and thus first Pope. Early bishops of Rome were designated "vicar (representative) of Peter"; later Popes were designated "vicar of Christ", a telling change.

In addition to this spiritual role, the Pope also serves as head of state of the independent, sovereign State of the Vatican City, a city-state entirely surrounded by the city of Rome. Prior to 1870, the Pope's temporal authority extended over a large area of central Italy, a territory more familiar as the Papal States that was formally known as the "Patrimony of St Peter". Though the document on which the territorial powers of the Pontificate were basedÂ—the so-called Donation of ConstantineÂ—was proved a forgery in the 15th century, the Pope retained sovereign authority over the Papal States until the Italian Unification of 1870, and a final political settlement between the Italian government and the Pope was not reached until the Lateran Treaties of 1929.

Currently, the office of Pope is vacant, a condition known as sede vacante, or the vacant seat. The most recent Pope was Pope John Paul II, who was elected at the age of 58 in 1978. He was the first non-Italian to be elected to the Pontificate since Adrian VI, who was briefly pope in 1522-23. Pope John Paul II died 46 days short of his 85th birthday at 19:37 GMT on April 2, 2005. A conclave will assemble on April 18 to conduct a Papal Election to elect a new Pope.

Contents [showhide]
1 Word origins

2 Office and nature

3 Regalia and insignia

4 Status and authority

5 Political role

6 Death, abdication, and election

6.1 Death
6.2 Abdication
6.3 Election

7 Objections to the Papacy

8 Other Popes

9 See also

10 External links

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Word origins
The word "Pope" is derived from the Greek word pappas ("father") and was originally used in an affectionate sense of any priest or bishop (in the exact same way that modern priests are addressed as "Father"). In the fourth and fifth centuries, pappas (Latinized as papa, a form still preserved in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, and Hungarian) was still frequently used of any bishop in the West, although it came to be restricted to its exclusive use by the Bishop of Rome by 1073. In the East, especially in Greece and Russia, priests are still referred to as pappas.

It also shares a common heritage with the Greek word Patriarch, meaning head of a clan or extended family. Patriarch was used as an honorific title of certain bishops in the early Christian Church, notably those of Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome.

As early as the third century, the Patriarch of Alexandria exercised a high degree of central control of suffragan Egyptian bishops, in a manner consciously similar to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome; the Alexandrian archbishop was given precedence immediately after the Roman pontiff by the Council of Nicaea, and adopted the title "Pope of Alexandria," which still forms an integral part of the titles of the Greek Orthodox "Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa" and of the Coptic "Pope of Alexandria and of the See of Saint Mark the Apostle." While the designation of pope was fully attached to bishops by the time of Leo the Great (440-461) it was not until 1073 that it was assigned exclusively to the Bishop of Rome.

Pontiff, the other title for the pope, is of ancient pagan origin, from the Latin pontifex, the title of a Roman high priest, but is not recorded in English until as late as 1677, specifically then for the pope. The ancient word originally meant "bridge-maker", bridging the earthly world and the realm of the gods. To pontificate is first recorded in 1825.

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Office and nature
The title "Pope" is an informal one; the formal title of the Pope is "Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God," although this is rarely seen or used in full (by comparison, the formal title of the Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria is "Successor of Saint Mark the Apostle, Shepherd of Shepherds, Father of Fathers, Supreme Pontiff of All Metropolitans and Bishops, Judge of the World, and Beloved of Christ", often called the "Ecumenical Judge"; the Coptic Pope is styled "Pope and Patriarch of the See of Alexandria and of All the Predication of the Evangelist St. Mark"). In canon law he is referred to as the "Roman Pontiff" (Pontifex Romanus). The Pope is styled "Your Holiness" (Sanctitas Vostra) and is frequently referred to as "the Holy Father."

The Pope's signature is usually in the format "NN. PP. x" (e.g., Pope Paul VI signed his name as "Paulus PP. VI"), and his name is frequently accompanied in inscriptions by the abbreviation "Pont. Max." or "P.M." (abbreviation of the ancient title Pontifex Maximus, literally "Greatest Bridge-maker", but usually translated "Supreme Pontiff"). The signature of Papal bulls is customarily NN. Episcopus Ecclesia Catholicae ("NN. Bishop of the Catholic Church"), while the heading is NN. Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei ("NN. Bishop and Servant of the Servants of God"), the latter title dating to the time of Pope Gregory I the Great. Other titles used in some official capacity include Summus Pontifex ("Highest Pontiff"), Sanctissimus Pater and Beatissimus Pater ("Most Holy Father" and "Most Blessed Father"), Sanctissimus Dominus Noster ("Our Most Holy Lord"), and, in the Mediaeval period, Dominus Apostolicus ("Apostolic Lord").

Flag of the Vatican CityThe Pope's official residence is the Palace of the Vatican, and he also possesses a summer palace at Castel Gandolfo (believed to be situated on the site of the ancient city-state Alba Longa). Historically the official residence of the Pope was the Lateran Palace, donated by the Roman Emperor Constantinus I. The former Papal summer palace, the Quirinal Palace, has subsequently been the official residence of the Kings of Italy and Presidents of the Italian Republic.

Contrary to popular belief, it is the Pope's ecclesiastical jurisdiction (the Holy See) and not his secular jurisdiction (Vatican City) which conducts international relations; for hundreds of years, the Pope's court (the Roman Curia) has functioned as the government of the Catholic Church. The name "Holy See" (also "Apostolic See") is in ecclesiastical terminology the ordinary jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome (including the Roman Curia); the Pope's various honours, powers, and privileges within the Catholic Church and the international community derive from his Episcopate of Rome in lineal succession from the Apostle St. Peter (see Apostolic Succession). Consequently Rome has traditionally occupied a central position in the Catholic Church, although this is not necessarily so. The Pope derives his Pontificate from being Bishop of Rome but is not obligated to reside in Rome; according to the Latin formula ubi Papa, ibi Curia, wherever the Pope resides is the central government of the Church, provided that the Pope is Bishop of Rome. As such, between 1309 and 1378 the Popes resided not in Rome but in Avignon, a period often called the Babylonian Captivity in allusion to the Biblical exile of Israel (see Avignon Papacy).

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You musta had a lot of time on your hands dude.

i didnt type that, i copy and pasted it from one site.

and, yes, i am damn bored.

wut ever happend to Goatours anyway??is he still on this site?

kawasaki kid wrote:

Yeah same thing. I dont care, Im not christian. He is just any other guy to me.

You don't have to be christian. because he was leader of the catholic religion. Theres jewish people that are sad about this too. So it's a pretty big thing.

matt