Isn't the timing of the Cardinals Conclave

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15. If this pope really is not pompous

and he really wants to reform this church, then this was the perfect time. And perhaps could have only happened at these moments.

My sister a liberal ex-nun was so excited about a number of stories circulating.

They brought him this ermine cape to wear and he told the guy giving it to him to wear it himself, no way was he going to wear such a thing. He won't wear the red shoes, he won't stand on the podiums. He is refusing to act like some big shot.

I thought that the holidays were all taken over from the Pagan holidays as well, which are based on the language of the skies. But Catholicism did that- replaced the gods and goddesses with saints. Keeping male and female holy figures. Kept the story of the virgin birth, etc. All from previous religions that became labeled as pagan. But actually absorbed. Many of the protestants are against all this sort of sloppy stuff. My sister tells me it is why it became such a big religion. It incorporates all sorts of local beliefs.