Interesting that our very own "Crazy Uncle" Joe Biden is leading the US delegration to greet the new Pope. I doubt that Francis will excommunicate him on the spot but he will impart a warning to him to bring back to Nancy Pelosi and the others.
Cryin' shame that John "I'm Just A Gigolo" Kerry is Secretary Of State rather than Senator from Massachussetts now. I'd like to have seen the look on his face when the Archbishop of Boston denied 'Lurch' communion.
I remember reading somewhere right after Karol Wotyla died that the Cardinals were hesitant about naming another young man such as Wotyla to the Papacy for fear of the change that someone so young could bring to the Church over such a long reign. I'm sure that came about after looking at John Paul II's reign in retrospect. Benedicts short tour was a direct result of that and Francis at 78, and with only one lung yet, ain't no spring chicken neither. He could even turn out to be a 30 day wonder like John Paul I.
Maybe its the Cardinals ensconced in the bowels of the Holy See who were most concerned that a Holy Father with an excessively long stay in office just might be able to discern exactly what they were up to down in them thar bowels.
We'll see. Comrade Barack could 'Plunk his magic twanger' and have Francis gone in a second. Might not be a bad idea for Francis to have some guys stationed on the roof of the Papal residences with binoculars looking for drones. You, of course, know that Comrade Barack insisted that before he would concede to speak at Georgetown or Notre Dame U, the good friars had to cover, obfuscate, or obliterate any statues, paintings, or inscriptions depicting or referring to another God other than he. He doesn't seem to hold much stock in Christianity, other than the brand Jeremiah Wright preached, "Hate ****** with all your might" and all that.