That ... was fast

[james_davis_nicoll]

I thought there was no consensus heading into the conclave?

New pope chosen

Comments

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Indeed. He's got much more of an ``isn't that Arthur C Clarke'' thing going on.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

... this is an improvement?

[daev.livejournal.com]

The Pope looks like a gay left-wing rationalist... it's a start.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I hope the other allegations against Clarke were untrue. Given fannish and expat behavior from his time, I rather suspect that they weren't. Since it's now a political question in Sri Lanka, it won't be clarified any time soon.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Hey, until and unless Pope Francis, friend to animals and military dictators, excommunicates about 40% of the current hierarchy, including the previous Pope, for their role in the coverup, I'm fine with anything that makes people link the Catholic church with pedophilia.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

The first pictures of him on the balcony in the official Pope uniform made him look like shrunken old Uncle Fred at the wedding, fresh from the old folk's home and wearing that suit he used to fit into. Compared to the two bulletcatchers on either side of him he doesn't look too healthy.