Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Cardinals are teasing

Well, I never would have thought that the 100+ cardinals in the Vatican could be described as having the behaviours of a tease. However that's just what has been happening. They sent white smoke up the chimney getting everyone's hopes up about having a new pope before the black smoke came through the chimney dashing those hopes.

Maybe it's been so long since they had a papal election that everyone has forgotten how to make the thing work and perhaps they joined the 'paperless society' and put everything into the computer and forgot to do a back up?

The only saving grace is the age of the Cardinals in the conclave - most of them would have been alive when the last pope was selected and so one of them probably knew what to do.

Could it be that simple? Ineffective record keeping? In the Vatican?

NAH!

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