kilikini wrote:
>
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> > On Tue 19 Apr 2005 09:08:23p, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:55:39 GMT, kilikini wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Ranger wrote:
> >>> > The Pope is here.
> >>> >
> >>> > Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected the 265th
> >>> pontiff > today by the College of Cardinals. He was announced as
> >>> tens of > thousands of people cheered in St. Peter's Square.
> >>> Ratzinger has > chosen the name Benedict XVI, the Vatican
> >>> announced. The > announcement came shortly after white smoke rose
> >>> from the Vatican > chimney and bells rang to announce that a new
> >>> pope had been > selected.
> >>> >
> >>> > The Ranger
> >>>
> >>> Only one more predicted pope left; Peter the Roman. I've been
> >>> trying to tell my friends that this one was going to be a Benedict
> >>> from the Benedict sect, but no one believed me. Peter the Roman
> >>> is purportedly the next and last one after this Benedict according
> >>> to St. Malachy who has correctly predicted every pope in the
> >>> Catholic Church history from back around 1138.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I've never heard of St. Malachy, but you made me look...
> >> http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp
> >>
> >> So, after Peter the Roman, it's the end of the world or the end of
> >> the Church?
> >
> > I vote for the church.
>
> I do too. Supposedly the church breaks down into groups that "supervise"
> various worldwide divisions instead of a dominant heirarchy.

Ah! The completion of the Protestant Reformation!

About time.

Priscilla