How Did The Pope Election Work?

[Ann]

Does anyone know the exact procedure for the election of the Pope? If they had to get a two thirds majority and didn't do so - did they have to drop out of the next vote? As there were five votes before a new Pope was chosen, would any of them change their vote if the candidates didn't have to drop out of the running after each election?

[Canary42]

It's all a secret.

[ummmm]

I think! They vote, the one with the least votes is out, they vote again, the one with the least votes is out....and so on...A bit like Pope XFactor without the public vote.

Maybe they should put it to the public vote.

[DJHawkes]

so it's like heats, then quater finals then semi-finals then the final, i suppose at least they don't spend millions on an election campaign and spend public money on 15 minute tv broardcasts that noone watches. wonder if there is any bribary and corruption involved.

[Ann]

Yes good idea ummmm - I did think it was a bit embarrassing when the name was announced from the balcony - nobody uttered a word or cheered, the news reporter later said it was because hardly anyone had ever heard of him - he was an outsider to win!

[Ann]

Yes Pope X Factor - I like that! Maybe it should be Pope + factor though!

[karenmac60]

I believe they have a swimsuit round :)

And it's Pope Idol!

[DJHawkes]

i can just imagine the interviews, i bet they all wished for whirled peas

[Ann]

Pope Idol LOL :)) whirled peas too :))

[craft1948]

Just loving how the non-catholics take the p!ss out of something that is important to the 1.2 billion catholics.......

[DJHawkes]

they're such easy marks though.

[DJHawkes]

1.2 billion and only a handful got a vote? not a democracy then lol

[craft1948]

dotty shame on you..............

[DJHawkes]

lol couldn;t give a stuff, the catholic church is full of gold and prays for an end to poverty, scuse me, but i think there's an answer in there somehwhere that they are failing to come up with. this new guy will probably stuff his face then stand on the balcony and ask people to dig deep and donate their money, laugh and a half they are

[ummmm]

I'm a Catholic, Crafty, and I'm disgusted at the regime. Was at Mass Saturday night (yeah, they happily flump up your weekends)

He nudged me to take communion. I was brought up to believe that you couldn't take communion unless you'd been to confession...

Yeah....look at me, 3 kids out of wedlock!! Am I feck taking his 'body & soul'

[craft1948]

Okay ummmm but I don't think you are actually representative of the majority of catholics. I'm not a catholic but wouldn't denigrate the beliefs of the millions who are.

[MadMen]

Lol Ummmmy! :))

Similar thing happened to me....and I'm a fine one to talk! :))

[ChillDoubt]

Good point actually DJH, seems they had a spare $10 million only yesterday that they've had to use to cover their crimes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21765850

A drop in the ocean though, I daresay.

[Wharton]

If $10,000,000 is a drop in the ocean, can you come back with how much the Pacific is worth?

[Baldric]

'Cus I's bored I just Googled Electing a Pope way back in the 13th Century one election took 3 years

[ChillDoubt]

Not really Wharton, the pious among the RC Church seem to be removing it at an alarming rate. I wonder if it's going to the poor...?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/financial-scandals-the-hidden-wealth-of-the-catholic-church-a-700513.html

Found this elsewhere too:

The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc. At a conservative estimate, these amount to more than 500 million dollars in the U.S.A. alone

As I said, a relative drop in the ocean.