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Originally Posted by Chris
I'm no fan of the Church of Rome, but calling the College of Cardinals a 'puppet group' placed by the previous pope is a bit unfair (as well as quite inaccurate). There are a lot of Cardinals, and many of them have been in-post for a great many years. They come from all over the world and represent all the cultures where the Roman church exists. As a system of representative democracy it's far, far from the worst the world has produced.
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Getting a bit too off-topic now but no matter how long they've been in place the cardinals are created by the popes and the popes are elected by the cardinals..
If we did the same then the PM would elect the MP's and the MP's would elect the PM.. (who would stay in place till he died)
It was a choice between calling the cardinals puppets or the pope, just didn't fancy a papal target on my back by some extremist catholics
