Tomorrow is the new Pope's inagural mass. I think that it will be like a U.S. president's first official speech to the nation where he outlines policy and what he wants to accomplish in the coming years. That is just what I would think be logical. I wasn't born yet when JPII gave his inagural mass and I am almost completely in the dark on religious matters.
I went to a presbyterian church as a child, but by the third grade, I became pretty good at soccer and played on a travel team and had games on Sundays so I stopped going to church. I probably know more about Juddaism than Christianity after growing up in a predominantly Jewish town for twenty years or so. I went to hundreds of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. Never been to a communion, baptism or any other ceremony related to the Christian or Catholic faiths. But I'm up to learn. 1.1 Billion people in this world are Catholics and there's quite a range of faith within each one of them so they are a worldwide force like it or not.
But what can be expected to come out of Benedict's mouth? It's not like he's all of a sudden going to say that women can be priests, gays are okay and John Kerry can now accept communion is he? He's the Pope! And he has certain rules of his faith that he will follow. Does the Pope have much leeway in the rules? Like can he suggest changes like a King or Parliment? I know that the Church can correct itself like saying the world is round, but could it allow women to be priests and okay gay marriage? What would/does it take to do something like that?
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