Cardinals go with youth movement
The new Pope is only 76 years old. To show how old school he is, the new pontiff concluded his first public speech with the traditional "Et nunc eo ad orbem disneicum."
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Comments (17)
huh? I am a deprived person as I never studied Latin...translation por favor
Posted by K.W. | March 13, 2013 3:16 PM
oh hahah the word "disneicum" when one googles it comes up "Disney" what the heck?
Posted by K.W. | March 13, 2013 3:27 PM
"You've just been named Pope. What are you going to do next?"
Posted by reader | March 13, 2013 3:42 PM
And I thought it was about the changes St. Louis continues to make since Tony LaRussa and Albert Pujols left...
Posted by It's Mike | March 13, 2013 3:47 PM
Ancient Vatican tradition - when you have powerful groups of cardinals who can't decide on a candidate, you pick someone old.
Odds are that in a few years, the cardinals will convene again, and they might be able to come up with a (younger) consensus candidate.
On the other hand, maybe not - Benedict was 78 when he was appointed, so this is the second "caretaker Pope" in a row.
Posted by Randomx | March 13, 2013 3:53 PM
Captain of the Titanic. Not too big to fail.
Posted by Jack Bog | March 13, 2013 3:57 PM
My last Latin class was in 1956, but it looks to me like, "And now I'm off to Disney World." Good one. Ubi pueri sunt.
Posted by Allan L. | March 13, 2013 3:58 PM
Semper ubi sub ubi.
Posted by Jack Bog | March 13, 2013 6:14 PM
Me think a Borgia lurked in the wings!
White Smoke answer's to a Higher Authority..
Posted by Jeff Davis | March 13, 2013 6:25 PM
Semper ubi sub ubi... One of the great skit scenes from "Frasier", where that was carved in the fireplace mantle at a lodge they rented, Niles explaining what that meant to his dad.
Posted by PDXileinOmaha | March 13, 2013 6:33 PM
This is the type of deal where the Cardinals pick up a utility man but actually have their eye on "a player to be named later." Just another rusty can kick today.
That church went aberrant long ago under that whacko "Saint" Augustine. Among other deviant things, that's when he & his posse put a harsh end to the traditional established common and well-accepted practice of women priests in "Christendom." The rest is HIStory....
Posted by Mojo | March 13, 2013 6:45 PM
Semper exterat mundis interulus.
Posted by Molly | March 13, 2013 7:29 PM
Semper ubi sub ubi.
With those long cassocks, you'll never know. Misericors Dominus est.
Posted by Allan L. | March 13, 2013 7:39 PM
The Pope's phone number: ETcumspiri 220.
Posted by Jack Bog | March 13, 2013 7:42 PM
A big, yet not unexpected, disappointment. Sorry about the English, my Latin's too rusty.
Posted by Anon | March 13, 2013 9:47 PM
Sounds like a political outreach to the Hispanic culture where 40% of Catholics are from. And now the world is with God.
At least for those in Vatican Square.
Posted by Nolo | March 13, 2013 10:35 PM
1. AS a long retired altar boy and pathetic Latin student, all I could translate was the "ad."
2. Reviving the telephone number joke subtracts points from whatever score you
got for the Latin humor.
3. It was fun hearing the TV commentary
about maybe a new pope might modernize the church by allowing priests to marry or ordaining women. Yeah, any minute now. Doesn't anyone recall the resistance to such doctrinal reforms as turning the altar around so the priest saying mass faced the people and spoke English? At least TV made being an ex-catholic fun for a day.
Posted by niceoldguy | March 14, 2013 12:31 AM