Any Predictions For The Next Pope?

Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Let's hear your predictions

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 07:40 PM | 23 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

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A surprise could emerge on the balcony after the white smoke clears.

I expect it'll be a cardinal in Francis' mold ... someone with longtime pastoral experience, not just Vatican administration.

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-06 07:44 PM | Reply

They need someone younger than "old" with an actual leadership vision that can play out over a generation.

Hopefully someone compassionate but you never know the Catholics could just as soon side with the Fascists as they have in the past.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 07:55 PM | Reply

I don't think Lewzer has much of a shot.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-06 08:00 PM | Reply

He doesn't need to be the pope.

He just needs the pope to be some right wing maniac who agrees with all the hate conservatives embrace.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-06 08:03 PM | Reply

He just needs the pope to be some right wing maniac

Fair enough.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-06 08:13 PM | Reply

Well, it won't be Pope Secola, sadly

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-06 09:26 PM | Reply

Strong runner up is Pope Ayezchiken.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-06 11:11 PM | Reply

I'm going with another Jesuit pedophile so the Illuminati can maintain control.

#8 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-07 03:16 AM | Reply

Marco Rubio really wants the job, but they can't find a small enough hat.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 05:47 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

My money's on Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle

#10 | Posted by shane at 2025-05-07 09:49 AM | Reply

If I had the most powerful electron microscope, I still could not find one iota of interest for an institution that has been on the wrong side of moral history for the most of its existence.

#11 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-05-07 12:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hopefully a nonsocialist.

#12 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-05-07 03:48 PM | Reply

I was asking for predictions for who the conclave will pick as the next pope.

I like Tagle. Very much in Francis' mold, which the Catholic Church needs if they're going to survive the 21st Century.

#13 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-08 12:01 AM | Reply

If the Church knows whats good for it, Li Shan will be the next Pope.

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-08 12:21 AM | Reply

Hopefully someone compassionate but you never know the Catholics could just as soon side with the Fascists as they have in the past.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-08 12:23 AM | Reply

And the new pope is an American!

69 year old Robert Prevost - Leo XIV

(I hope Rogers has his Network Solutions page ready to register his name)

#16 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-08 01:20 PM | Reply

From Chicago? Gracie's head must have exploded.

#17 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-08 01:45 PM | Reply

She's gonna start posting weekend death counts from Vatican City.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-08 01:47 PM | Reply

I wonder if he could see lake Erie from his condo in Chicago.

#19 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-08 02:00 PM | Reply

LZW!

Prediction: MAGA catholics are going to be almost as upset with this one as they were with the last one. They'll be more upset with the Catholic church for letting another one of "those" be pope. There will be talk of founding a "true" Catholic church, kinda like the prosperity evangelicals, but for MAGA. They'll whine, but ultimately just stew and do nothing.

#20 | Posted by YAV at 2025-05-08 02:07 PM | Reply

LZK aka Armella.

#21 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-08 02:55 PM | Reply

They'll (MAGA) whine, but ultimately just stew and do nothing.

#20 | POSTED BY YAV

No threats to kill the new Pope?

Sounds unrealistic.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-08 03:09 PM | Reply

LZK aka Armella.

Drats! I never get that last letter right!

#23 | Posted by YAV at 2025-05-08 05:28 PM | Reply