Everybody hopes for a "Family" Pope

Now we have buried the "Peace" Pope (he wasn't really a young people's Pope after all), we can only hope that the good Lord isn't on vacation or in his garden watering his heavenly Brussels sprouts.....

The funeral was the best proof of the late Pope's legacy: most of the world-leaders who didn't want to see/meet each other or have been long-time enemies couldn't avoid the "peaceful" handshake we Catholics exchange during mass.....

And business was as usual: they denied afterwards that they did.........

The burial reminded me of a Jewish funeral I once attended. No flowers, naked coffin, yak......but the public didn't mind and showed their respect by applauding the late pope's body....I must admit I was very much moved by the fact that the coffin was turned towards "his" public for a last time as saying "goodbye for now" and after that last farewell to "his" public, carried into the St. Peters Church.

So, the next Pope....let he be a family man....let him urge the old cardinals and the Curie to discuss prevention, abortion, livin' togetherness and above all homosexuality, let him urge them to start to live in the PRESENT and not in the 15th century (even those who lived then were very much "enlightened")...only then he will be a Pope to remember when he finally dies one day far in the future...