Catholics: How come no one nominates an American Catholic for Pope?
2007-10-11 04:52:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pope JP, II, said no Pope would ever be selected from America.
America has saints but they are called, Native Americans.
2007-10-11 05:15:22 · update #1
Popes tend not to come from dominant cultures, when they have, it has usually been a bad thing. Preference always goes to confessors and people who could have been martyrs. Americans live too easy a life to lead a billion people in hardship. The exception of course is the bias toward nominating Italians, since of course the Pope is the bishop of the Church at Rome.
2007-10-11 05:01:06 · answer #1 · answered by OPM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
American Catholics are considered very liberal in the world catholic community. The U.S. is also very unimportant as veiwed in the Catholic perspective. The country is overwhelmingly protestant-christian. The ability to convert is limited, catholic bishops play a far less important role within the country as a whole. There would be no real upside for an American Pope. Whereas a Latin American - African - Asian Pope would possibly bring more converts. The European Bishops are powerful men in their diocese, and far less liberal. So these men make much more attractive men. *Side Note* Italians are upset about no Italian pope in a long time and so the Italian bloc may be against anyone not of an Italian Diocese.
2007-10-11 12:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by m b 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The truth is that there are only two american cardinal named in 2006 William Joseph O'Malley and Seán Patrick and there are a lot of cardinals that were named before but I don`t know if they live today or not . This is the list:
Baum, William Wakefield (1976)
Bernardin, Joseph Louis (1983)
Bevilacqua, Anthony Joseph (1991)
Brennan, Francis James (1967)
Carberry, John Joseph (1969)
Cody, John Patrick (1967)
Cooke, Terence James (1969)
Cushing, Richard James (1958)
Dearden, John Francis (1969)
Dougherty, Denis Joseph (1921)
Dulles, S.J., Avery Robert (2001)
Egan, Edward Michael (2001)
Farley, John Murphy (1911)
George, O.M.I., Francis Eugene (1998)
Glennon, John Joseph (1946)
Hayes, Patrick Joseph (1924)
Hickey, James Aloysius (1988)
Keeler, William Henry (1994)
Krol, John Joseph (1967)
Law, Bernard Francis (1985)
McCarrick, Theodore Edward (2001)
McIntyre, James Francis (1953)
Mahony, Roger Michael (1991)
Maida, Adam Joseph (1994)
Manning, Timothy (1973)
Medeiros, Humberto Sousa (1973)
Meyer, Albert Gregory (1959)
Mooney, Edward Aloysius (1946)
Muench, Aloisius Joseph (1959)
Mundelein, George William (1924)
O'Boyle, Patrick Aloysius (1967)
O'Connell, William Henry (1911)
O'Connor, John Joseph (1985)
O'Hara, C.S.C. John Francis (1958)
Rigali, Justin Francis (2003)
Ritter, Joseph Elmer (1961)
Shehan, Lawrence Joseph (1965)
Spellman, Francis Joseph (1946)
Stafford, James Francis (1998)
Stritch, Samuel Alphonse (1946)
Szoka, Edmund Casimir (1988) this guy was a polish imigrant ( don`t get fooled by the name )
Wright, John Joseph (1969)
Probably they have thing with holy americans ( haven`t you thought about an american saint . That` right , there isn`t one )
2007-10-11 12:05:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
im not a catholic and im glad im not but as far as i know you cant just go to the position of pope
2007-10-11 11:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can not say I do not know how many American cardinals there are but that would make a difference.
2007-10-11 11:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
good luck on this one with the vatican-- if you get this one past them you will need tons of luck with the money that flyes threw this country back too them. the higher ups at the vatican will laugh you right of the planett.
2007-10-11 12:03:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a secret ballot; how do you know they didn't?
2007-10-11 11:56:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋