The World Cup is about to begin

Bets are made, teams are built, dates are set... the World Cup in Brazil is about to start...

This Years official Song World Cup

 

And next to the hymne of Santana Dar Um jeito, this is an extraordinary alternative: Todo Mundo from Gaby Amarantos and monobloco.

The Pope is a soccerfan of San Lorenzo

Francisco I.

Yes....yes....yes it is about the Pope again! What can I say? The good must give way to the better!

We have one! The catholic church has a newly baked Pope. He was just baked? Yes he was. He was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and today he was baked Pope by 115 electoral candidates. And he baked himself to be Francis I. or Francisco I. or Francesco I.

The Jesuit is from Argentina, he loves football and prefers to drive with the public transport instead of taking a car, what do we want more?

Is he going to be the pope of the public again? Just as JP II was? Is he going to be a mixture of Ratzinger and Karol Wojtyla? The theological sharpness combined with an immense charismatic approach in addition to a particular humour? Possibly we just have to give him time and freedom for him to settle down and find out how to best steer this big ship.

Benedetto XVI. & Jorge Mario Bergoglio

If you ask my personal opinion, which you possibly do not do, but which I will give anyway, have a very good feeling about him. And I think we can look forward to a enthralling, revolutionary time, accompanied by a good portion of humour.

The popes election, today 16.30.

115 cardinal-electors come together today at 10 am to celebrate the mass "pro eligendo romano pontifice" in the St. Peters Basilica in Rome.

The rock´n roll in the Sistine Chapel starts at 4.30pm. 

The Cardinals met on monday in order to discuss the biggest current problems of the catholic church and discussed about the requirements the next Pope shoul fullfil.

A 2/3 majority is needed until the election can be called final. The previous elections of Benedict XVI took 4 ballots. John Paul the II. election took 8 ballots. Is it today only going to take them 2 ballots?

When Ratzinger got elected in 2005, he was standing out as clear favourite. Is that the case today?

There are some names that every now and then get dropped by the media such as Milans Cardinal Angelo Scola, Peter Turkson from Ghana, Brasilian Odilo Scherer, the Canadian Marc Ouellet or the Archbishop of Vienna cardinal Schoenborn. But there is no constant spot on one of them.

Angelo Scola, Italys dreamcandidate

Cardinal Peter Turkson, Ghana

Cardinal Marc Ouellet

Cardinal Odilo Scherer, Brasil

Cardinal Schoenborn, Austria, Vienna

We did have two European, non italian popes, is the next one going to be an italian again? Or is there the need of a South American or African one, since those countries make a huge amount of the catholic Population. Is it not only just that the next Pope is going to be "one of them"?

"We stay Pope" claim the German newspapers, "Soon a Pope with a generous heart" claims the Italian newspaper Corriere dela Sera. We are Pope. Who is Pope?

The election could last days, weeks or month, but the cardinals agreed that they will want to get through with it as soon as possible so that at the highest feats of the Catholic Church, Easter ,  the seat of the Pontifex will no longer be empty.

It is a pulsating time that is lying infront of us and all that we can do is pray that the holy spirit travels into the hearts and minds of the 115 cardinal electors and that the best possible candidate is elected to lead the 1,2 billion big Catholic community.

The ballots have been printed and cut, the two stoves have been installed, and the chimney has been put in place. Ready to rumble.

Interactiv demonstration of how the election works


The Guardian, BBC, The Telegrapgh,

Simple good ideas

Sometimes there is just a proudness overcoming oneself. Not being proud of yourself but of somebody you know or you admire or simply respect for the great thing they have established.
Today there was such a moment.
I came across with a genius idea a friend together with some friends had. A newsportal where just one topic is published daily and one has the possibility of finding out what each newspaper thinks about this particular topic. The webpage is called pressekompass.net and deserves every right to be celebrated!

Egg or chicken?

It is the old often asked question, who was there first, the chicken or the egg? 

 Who was actually first? Someone must have laid the egg so defenitely the chicken was first, but did the chicken not come out of the egg? It is a fiddly question and I think that the chicken is actually not a chicken but a stork, well it is a chicken now but it was a stork then. So the stork laid the egg, so the real question must be was the egg there before or was it the stork, but no one eats stork eggs so the question is irrelevant and afterall the egg was not produced by the stork it was just brought by it.

Timbuktu

Once in a quizshow. There were an Australian and a priest competing against each other. Their scores were equal, so they had to create a verse about "Timbuktu".
The priest began:

"I was a father, all my life,
had no children, had no wife.
I read the Bible, through and through.
On my way to Timbuktu."

Then the Australian told his version:
"When Tim and I to Brisbane went,
we met three ladies cheap to rent.
They were three and we were two,
so I booked one and Tim booked two!"

Humans are bananas.

Did you know that our DNA is to 50 % consistent with that of a banana?