Wow, I really was somebody back then in last november. It's a pity I missed it.

I am quite excited to experience for the first time that famous black and white smoke coming up over the roofs of the Vatican.I don't know why but I remember my mother talking about it over and over again. And the last time it happened, I was only one year old. But as busy as I try to keep myself and as careless about the outer world that I really am I will probabely miss it again.

Talking about the Vatican and death, can you resign a pope? What would have happened if he had not died for a very long time but had agonized unconsciousely for a rather long period?
Why, talking about a moral dilemmata, do people (in this case the media, since the question came to my mind after the dead of Terri Schiavo) allways ask clerics? And normally not even especially qualified ones. No, just the fact that some guy is a cleric seems to be enough for his opinion to be of general interest. I don't understand this, of course all of them have an opinion about what's good and evil, but most of them only repeat the official position of the church, which is not very interesting since you know it anyway. Why don't they ask people who really think about it, people who can understand the moral dilemma because they can understand both sides of the medal? Being clerics or not.