WHY RICHARD WOULD NOT BE A CARDINAL - REASON #1

It's time for a new series I think.

I'm aware that I've banged on about USA politics recently so I'll give that a miss and concentrate on a theme that is topical and of interest to more than a billion people worldwide.

Hey! We need the followers. 

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Pope Francis - Il Papa - died yesterday and will be missed by over a billion Catholics around the world*. We know that he won't be missed by Donald Trump and his odious collaborators. A later post investigating those people in the death of Francis will be forthcoming but at the moment we will concentrate on the immediate task of electing a new pope. This is a job undertaken by Cardinals who are currently being locked up in the Vatican to get on with the job.

Locking up the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel

Our new series is WHY RICHARD WOULD NOT BE A CARDINAL  and the first in this is one of the reasons. This reason is that being locked up in the Sistine Chapel with 135 other cardinals would not suit our Richard - Richard of RBB.

Do you know why Richard of RBB would not like to be locked up in the Sistine Chapel with over a hundred other cardinals for days, weeks or even months? Here's a clue:

That I think covers reason #1.

Keep posted for the other (many) reasons.

* Including me. Although I'm an atheist. (a humanist really), I was baptised as a Catholic and have had a life-long interest in that religion, the Vatican and elections of popes. Francis was one of the best. I admired him for his courage in standing up to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and its reactionary, ultra conservative views. I welcomed his liberal (as liberal as a Catholic pope I guess can get) attitudes to gay clergy, LGBQT issues, social inequities, the dangers of ultra right and fascist movements etc.