Pope Idol
Okay I'm sure I'm not the only person to want to see this, but why doesn't the Vatican take the existing, and let's face it, terrifyingly succesful Pop Idol format and use it to select a new Pope? For reasons which escape me, but have probably to do with avoiding my own problems, I've been vaguely looking at potential front-runners for the currently vacant position of pontif (oddly I myself am not amongst them, I'm sure there's a claim for religious discrimination in there somewhere), and there actually is a guy I think would rock, and that's Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodiguez Maradiaga of Honduras. He seems pretty cool to me, mainly because he seems to scare the conservative wing of the church, and also he's not Italian. I don't even know what his views on anything are, all I kind ever find when I search is the same article over and over again which tells us that he's studied clinical psychology and has a 'dynamic, out-spoken' style. Anyway that of course is why we'd have the Pope Idol show. The various papabile (uh huh, thats the real word for it) cardinals could come on and discuss their thoughts on various topics (I personally want to see a Pope who deals with the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly in developing countries, by allowing contraception), before nifty dance routines, and maybe even cover versions of previous Papal Bulls, but in their own inimitable style. Then every week we get to vote, until the people of the world have selected a new Pope!Of course, none of that is going to happen. The Vatican isn't a democratic organisation, and really has no reason to be, thats not why people join a church. They don't join up to think for themselves, they join to be told what to do. What is going to happen is something that will be hidden, and that will doubtless involve much politicking, and will still result in a new Pope. It'll just be less fun, thats all.
posted by BadMonkey @ 12:17 PM
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