Visual of Pope ages

[Doctor Phibes]

Until recently, God really loved Italians, then it all seemed to go wrong.

I blame Berlusconi.

[Wim]

@Horace I thought you were good at maths

[Horace]

@Wim said in Visual of Pope ages:

@Horace I thought you were good at maths

I learned how to compute a slope, but according to Einstein, time is relative, therefore each of those popes "coincidentally" were traveling at approximately the same fraction of the speed of light through the universe. I don't believe in coincidences.

[jon-nyc]

That’s an interesting visual display. Lots of information there.

[jon-nyc]

Pius X was born in modern day Treviso. It was Austria-Hungarian empire at the time, but definitely not German.

I looked it up because I remember when the polish pope was chosen it had been centuries since a non-Italian was chosen.

[Wim]

@Horace Praise the Lord

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in Visual of Pope ages:

Pius X was born in modern day Treviso. It was Austria-Hungarian empire at the time, but definitely not German.

His birth name was Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto. Hardly Teutonic.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah. And everyone here my age or older remembers what a big deal it was when a non-Italian was chosen after JP-I died.

[Renauda]

It was huge! For a host of reasons.

[blondie]

I remember when the Polish guy became pope. Our local paper republished a picture of him (as a cardinal) with one of my best friends (who did Polish dancing). To this day, I remember that photo. Yes, it was a really big deal.

[89th]

Well to be fair, they did take a poll