Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - In every generation, the world witnesses the Catholic ecclesiastical Super Bowl as the cardinals gather together in Rome to elect a new pope. The choice is always, at bottom, theological. Will they elect someone who believes God created man in His image and likeness? Or will the new pope believe, like most Catholics today (apparently), that man created God in man’s image and likeness? Alas, much of the Catholic world has replaced the language of the Catholic faith with fig-leaf terms that cover various kinds of heresy.