Houston, we have a new Pope..

This is just interesting chatter..I was just in the caf to grab a sandwich and the place was at a bit of a standstill. The sandwich ladies were chatting about the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as the new pope, and people (staff, students and Friars alike) were standing around looking up at the TV screens. Some folks certainly seem to have had a favorite contender and two people I don’t know walked up to me and said: “I was hoping it was going to be the cardinal from Africa…” I’m sure I wouldn’t have paid too much attention to the process if I didn’t work at a Catholic college, but it has been interesting to learn a little more about how a pope becomes a pope. I’ve heard some Catholic jokes I never would have heard before (I was raised a Baptist). We get a steady stream of religious questions at the reference desk. I still haven’t forgotten my first on Day 3 of the job: “Do you have a Bible?” We have a lot, of course, the study bible at the reference desk had gone missing so I had to hustle to find the most appropriate search string in the catalog. Hint: it’s not “bible”.

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