relief.(Darren) I can read the small stuff now, not by increasing the font size, which the machine seems to ignore, but by increasing the screen res to 1024 x 768, and the DPI 96 to 120.
[Rosie] You are the first person to make me laugh today. No-one else has managed to eke even a smile out of me until now. Thank you, and yes we do have all sorts of ways :-)
yourself(Darren) Good point, but more fundamental is the question of what His Holiness is doing reproducing himself, in contradiction of the normally-required celibacy.
gigantic [Rosie] I direct your attention to the end of this page where they point out that certain Anglican clergy who have married, and later converted to Catholicism, have been permitted to remain married after becoming Catholic priests. If such a priest ascended to the papacy, he could have daughters.
fur [Rosie] Another possibility relates to papal infallibility. The Pope could easily make a pronouncement through extraordinary Magisterium to the effect that the rule about celibacy in the priesthood does not apply to the Pontiff himself. Even if this contradicted previous teaching, such pronouncements are by definition never theologically or morally incorrect. He would then be free to father as many children as he wanted, at the risk of causing a schism in the church!