dUSt Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 Cardinal George Pell [img]http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/img/collegio-cardinalizio/pell_g_am.jpg[/img] Age: 64 Country: Australia [url="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_pell_g_en.html"]BIOGRAPHY[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Cardinal Pell is ROCKIN! It would be amazing if he was chosen.... he's really good friends with my Archbishop and therefore I hold him in VERY high regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argent_paladin Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 I like Pell but he has lots of strikes against him: not known by many cardinals English speaking (how many languages does he know?) young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagiDragon Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 yeah, but he's an aussie! you realize what a cool accent he must have?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 One setback is that people see him as too contraversial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 11, 2005 Author Share Posted April 11, 2005 [quote name='DemonSlayer' date='Apr 10 2005, 10:59 PM'] One setback is that people see him as too contraversial. [/quote] Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Because he's conservative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 They think of him as being ultra-conservative, and also he has a former-nun cousin that wants him to give his blessing to her lesbian relationship and was once wrongly accused of child abuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Lesbian thing won't happen. WRONGLY ACCUSED is the key bit there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappie Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 (edited) I don't know whether to be amused or bemused: Bulletproof Pell noticed by Italian paper An Italian newspaper has picked Cardinal George Pell as one of its 18 favourites for next week's papal election, describing him as a fearless fighter willing to take up the challenge. The Australian today quotes Il Giornale's profile of Pell, which notes that he emerged "immaculate" from allegations in 2002 that he had sexually abused a Victorian boy 40 years earlier. The paper said that bookmakers have "doubled the odds" of the Sydney Archbishop becoming pope. Online bookmakers are rating Cardinal Pell as a long shot for the papacy, with the Northern Territory's sportingbet.com.au more than doubling the odds to 101:1 over the past week, and Irish bookie paddypower.com ranking him at 50:1. Il Giornale praised the Cardinal's communication skills and extensive travels. "The Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, is the portrait of an outsider and the punters looking for a surprise win mustn't disregard this athletic ex-football player, a born fighter on whom John Paul II depended a great deal and who is well regarded by bishops the world over," it said. Describing him as "a great traveller and a great communicator with a first-class CV", it mentions his "agreeable and no-frills" weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph and an opinion piece published in The Australian. "The Australian cardinal uses simple and direct words to explain the point of view of the church," it said. The special correspondent of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer in the US says the bookmakers "seem to like" Cardinal Pell. "He has an easy name and is a 64-year-old former football ("soccer") player from Australia." Edited April 12, 2005 by cappie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 [quote name='God Conquers' date='Apr 12 2005, 12:17 AM'] Lesbian thing won't happen. [/quote] Yeah, of course not, but the media was pressuring him to do it, it was pretty stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 [quote name='cappie' date='Apr 13 2005, 08:12 AM'] "He has an easy name and is a 64-year-old former football ("soccer") player from Australia." [/quote] Actually it's not soccer, he played australian rules football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappie Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 He was scouted for Collingwood but as he said he chose to enter the "Big League" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argent_paladin Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Yeah, I think this new interest and increased odds is more a function of the bettors than Pell. Most of the bettors will be Irish, British or some other English speaking country. Everyone likes the Australians so I think it is more a matter of him being an English speaker and from Australia. I don' think those will be major qualities for the actual electors, just the bettors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappie Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 as an Australian I think the odds must be 1000 to 1. I'm not completely stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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