Benedict XVI: above average

14 Responses to Benedict XVI: above average

1. Suburbanbanshee says:

   25 July 2012 at 10:05 am

   Ad multos, multos annos!
2. pfreddys says:

   25 July 2012 at 10:09 am

   Thank God! If possible I hope he can live past 100. He’s been more than I dared hoped for in a new Pope!
3. Legisperitus says:

   25 July 2012 at 10:09 am

   Hope he’s just getting started.
4. teomatteo says:

   25 July 2012 at 10:28 am

   I’ve mentioned this before but i can’t help but remember when he was elected. Some in the press referred to him as a ‘transitional Pope’ ……… hmm…. not bad… the Pope of Christian Unity.
5. RichR says:

   25 July 2012 at 10:40 am

   I’m not sure why this made the news. If the average is 7.19 years, then that just means that Pope Benedict is in the top 50%. I hope he reaches the top 5%, myself.

   On a side note, it must be a pain to be pope (or a supreme court justice) when the media is so focused on your death. How about focusing on his time still here, eh?
6. Mariana says:

   25 July 2012 at 10:53 am

   Oh, yes, ad multos, multos, MULTOS!
7. Horatius says:

   25 July 2012 at 11:07 am

   Love the headline.
   Am finishing his Spirit of the Liturgy–above average indeed!
   God bless our Holy Father: long may he lead us!
8. Bryan Boyle says:

   25 July 2012 at 11:20 am

   Here’s hoping he’s well on his way to trashing the average. God bless this noble, gentle shepherd.
9. Darren says:

   25 July 2012 at 11:45 am

   May we have many more years from this wonderful Holy Father! It is all up to God… may He be generous!

   Pray for the Pope every day.
10. Supertradmum says:

    25 July 2012 at 12:25 pm

    I love him so much, and when he was elected, we all agreed in my family that he looked like my Aunt Stanislausia! Long may he reign.
11. TZ says:

    25 July 2012 at 1:44 pm

    I’ll say he’s above average. ;-)
12. anna 6 says:

    25 July 2012 at 3:35 pm

    Benedict XVI is WAAAY above average. Let’s pray that his length of time as Pope is way above average too!
13. dcheney says:

    25 July 2012 at 5:31 pm

    I’m curious how the 7.19 years was arrived at – it seems unlikely.
    We are roughly 1979 years into the existence of the papacy (2012 – 33).
    1979/7.19 = 275 and change.
    That means we should have had 275 Popes … but we haven’t!
    Pope Benedict XVI is listed as #265 on the official list (Annuario Pontificio, 2012). We are missing 10 Popes!
    So using 1979/265 = 7.4679 years per Pope. (I like to use 7.5 as a reasonable approximation.)
    Using that calculation, Benedict XVI has another 3 months before hitting the average mark. (Not that I would say anything about his tenure has been average!)

    The information regarding his place on the list of oldest Popes is also inaccurate.
    He currently ranks as #8 on my list (which only goes back to the 13th century).

    He will pass Pope Innocent XII in age about the same time as he rises over the average length of a papacy.
14. aragonjohn7 says:

    25 July 2012 at 8:54 pm

    He is a gentleman and a scholar

    Shalom