means a lot thankyou xx

bye Erin - happy for you... and he does seem nice.   the cardinals all look smiley too  

Popped back to say 13 is my lucky number

13/03/13

Pleased you are pleased about the new Pope Erinp

Ohh  He's a white European... surprise surprise.

I hope he makes changes in the church

He's Argentinian, Rog

Is he? Ok sorry but still hope he's a reforming pope. Celibacy has to be done away with.

Big, big, BIG changes 

Do you think he's a good choice Erin?  I hope he is the best man for the job and can make some good changes in the Catholic church but he will have his work cut out for him.

Sorry to Erin b.t.w.   I know we share different views and its an exciting moment for her.

I only hope he's a reformer 

Oh yes, me too....I don't mean to rain on her parade at all.  I'm happy that Erin is excited by the news and just hope he's one of the good ones

I have every faith in him.

The new Pope has sent his first tweet following his appointment as leader of the  Catholic Church.
Pope Francis I - 76-year-old Argentine Cardinal Jorge  Mario Bergoglio - took to Twitter shortly after being greeted by the crowds in  Rome's St Peter's Square.
"HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM" translates as: "We have Pope Francis."
The  @Pontifex account was set  up for Pope Benedict XVI, whose tweets were all deleted when he resigned  last month.

© PA Images / Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

Francis is the 266th Pope

Greg Burke, senior media  advisor to the Vatican, said at the time: "The Pope is not going to be walking  around with a BlackBerry or an iPad and no-one is going to be putting words into  the Pope's mouth."
Twitter's director of social innovation, Claire Diaz  Ortiz, added: "As a company it's important for us to have influential leaders  and the Pope is perhaps the most important religious leader in the world who's  joining our platform."

Same here. Trouble is that no Pope will ever be able to change anything radically, so the only change we'll see might be a more concentrated approach on the 'fallen' priests. On first meeting, he loks nice, so that's good.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...e-thirteen-key-facts

• He likes to travel by bus.

• He has lived for more than 50 years with one functioning lung. He had the other removed as a young man because of infection.

• He is the son of an Italian railway worker.

• He trained as a chemist.

• He is the first non-European pope in the modern era.

• He claims that adoption by homosexuals is a form of discrimination against children but believes that condoms "can be permissible" to prevent infection.

• In 2001 he washed and kissed the feet of Aids patients in a hospice.

• He speaks fluent Italian, as well as Spanish and German.

• Until now he has been living in a small flat, eschewing a formal bishop's residence.

• He told Argentinians not to travel to Rome to celebrate if he was appointed but to give their money to the poor instead.

• He is believed to have been the runner-up in the last papal conclave in 2005.

• He has co-written a book, in Spanish, called Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (On Heaven and Earth). You can buy it on Kindle.

• Though conservative on church doctrine, he has criticised priests who refuse to baptise babies born to single mothers.

He's a humble man and seems quite progressive  Like the sound of him

thanks ^^^

Is runner up going to be like the X factor where they actually do better than the winner?

I've been waiting for a Pope to free women since I was about 15 (John Paul VI). Unless the Catholic Church changes it's relationship with sex, nothing will move in the right direction.

BBC translator makes a mess of the Lords prayer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/vid...ss-Popes-prayer.html

He could tell his country to lay off the Falkands, just a thought.

Erin I understand your excitement as I felt it too Although I no longer attend Church I was raised Catholic and parts of the teachings have stayed with me, and helped me at times when life has been challenging. I like the look of him and what I've learnt about him so far Some changes need to be made and I hope he will be the one to have the strength and commitment to see them through.

He looked a bit

Does he understand that he's Pope?

You do realise that this makes the last two Popes Frankie and Benny?

FATHER DOUGAL elected Pope on Face Book

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...cebook-campaign.html

Keep out of the black and in the red - nothing in this game for two in a bed.

Me too and indeed they do. Reform isn't a big deal once people get used to the idea. The Catholic Church has changed radically down through the centuries. There needs to be a changing of the guard now as many catholics feel hurt bewildered and betrayed at whats happened in recent decades.

Celibacy was only introduced after hundreds of years, before which the church had done fine. Mandatory celibacy in effect reduces the number of people with a true vocation entering the priesthood. With such a tiny pool of people to select from no wonder we got some right weirdos. Compare that, to what it could be if it was opened up to a wider intake. And women for that matter.

How can the Virgin Mary be regarded with such veneration [Pope John Paul was a Marian devotee] yet women aren't deemed fit to enter the priesthood? 

This one's for Erin   

 Brilliant 

I hear he only has one lung...now im singing in my head One lung, one lung, lets get together and feel alright.