Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 11:46am

PopeWatch: Pope Burke

From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:

In an epic mistake that drew gasps from Catholics and non-Catholics around the world yesterday, Cardinal Protodeacon Jean-Louis Tauran recently announced that he mistakenly named Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope at the 2013 Papal Conclave, when in reality it was Cardinal Raymond Burke that won the top prize.

The newly-elected Pope Francis was saying some random thing that would have made many Catholics scratching their heads when the interjection came that Burke had in fact been elected pope.

“I want to tell you what happened,” Tauran told press gathered at the Vatican yesterday. “I opened the envelope, and it said ‘Jorge Mario Bergoglio, La La Church.’”

“Burke,” the story of a white, Catholic, conservative man had already won best supporting cardinal for Making Things Look A Little Less Out Of Control.

“Very clearly, even in my prayers this could not be true,” Burke told those gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “But to hell with it, I’m done with it, because this is true. Oh my goodness.”

It was not immediately clear how the mistake was made, though EOTT tweeted out a photo that showed that the envelope in Tauran’s hand reading “Best Bishop Of A Diocese That Is Not The Diocese of Rome.”

Go here to read the comments.  And then PopeWatch woke up.

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Mary De Voe
Saturday, March 4, AD 2017 8:08am

An American Pope. How extraordinary. An orthodox Pope. How orthodox.

Bill H
Bill H
Saturday, March 4, AD 2017 10:21am

I saw this picture some time ago, and actually sent a printed copy to the good cardinal in Rome. He very graciously replied to my accompanying note, but didn’t mention the photo for some reason.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Saturday, March 4, AD 2017 2:42pm

“Red Hatter’s Matter!”-Author unknown..thank goodness.

Vatican Cards.
Sort of like poker, sheepshead and Euchre rolled into one.

Example: I see your bluff, I’ll raise you five and trade my Pope for three of your Cardinals. Oh, and Cardinal Burke is wild.
Trump is well..trump, and everybody gets a hors d’oeuvre.

You can’t win. The deck is stacked.

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