New Pope Robert Prevost from USA

KSav said:
There's no "trick" about it. Most married Roman Catholic priests are widowers who take their faith seriously. The priest who said my mother's funeral Mass is one example. There aren't many.
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I’ve known a few men who have joined a monastic order as a brother later in their life, usually part time while they are still working in their secular career. None were ordained priests. I don't recall their marital status.
 
Brookswood said:
There are a few married priests in the Catholic Church. The trick is to become an Episcopal priest. They can marry and have families. Then after an appropriate amount of time ( a decade or more) announce that you have seen the truth and want to convert to the Roman Catholic Religion. The candidate will need a dispensation from Rome regarding the celibacy requirement. Assuming the Roman Catholic church approves, there you go!

I think the Lutherns can also do that.
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Also the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches allow for the ordination of married men as priests. These churches are in full communion with the pope. Most Catholics in the world belong to the Latin (or Roman) Church, which is the largest Catholic Church.
 
Correction: In the 2025 papal conclave, there are five cardinal electors who are members of the Eastern Catholic Churches. These cardinals are: Louis Raphaël I Sako (Chaldean Church), Baselios Cleemis (Syro-Malankara Church), Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel (Ethiopian Church), Mykola Bychok (Ukrainian Greek Church), and George Koovakad (Syro-Malabar Church). Technically, a cardinal from the Eastern Catholic Churches, instead of the Latin (Roman) Catholic Church could be elected as Pope of the Catholic Church, but highly unlikely.
 
Warrigal said:
It's all right. There is a lot of blindness in the northern hemisphere towards the southern, and vice versa,

It's on forums like this one that we get to learn about "the other".
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The thing is that I already knew Australia was a country and a continent. Now I've never been there, and even when I commented on the full name of the USA, I wondered if I was leaving someone out. I even tried to think of a similar situation, but came up short. I could be forgiven because their are lots of countries. But Australia? No, in my mind that is not forgivable. It's too obvious, and I have friends that have gone there and returned with fascinating stories.

And you guys are the one's who took the Americas cup away from us, breaking the longest running series of victories in sports history. Now of course, as we fade into the sunset of our own history, I can't even keep track of who owns the cup anymore.
 

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