Is this from the Onion?

Maybe the State Dept. would accomplish more by monitoring US presidential elections.
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Matthew Lee is an ignorant fool to ask such a silly question.
Victoria Nuland is an pompous, arrogant arse to provide that response.
The Catholic Church has been selecting popes for two millenia; what makes these upstarts think they can monitor tha Cardinal´s Conclave. They can´t even monitor honest elections in the US.
How about we let the Vatican monitor the next Dem primary?

Keep it up, people. Maybe at some point we´ll get a little overseas help in dealing with our domestic "problems."

I think there is a higher authority overseeing the Papal elections.

Did any dead Cardinals vote? ;-)

This is not the UN, it´s a Euro trash body. No one´s going to mess with papal elections.

Hitler and his crew were self-important, delusional and dangerous to anything / anyone outside their collective….Hmm, sounds familiar…

ROFL, Dear U.S. State Department, United Nations, and all other fools in the world...words fail me. News flash to the fools, you have NO power, NO authority, and NO control over papal elections. For one thing, aren´t you the very people who promote separation of church and state, to the exclusion of God in public life? And for another thing, Vatican City is an independent City State. The unmitigated gall of the so-called intelligentsia is absolutely astounding.

Dear Ron White, you are correct. You can´t fix stupid.

Let us all pray for Victoria Nuland and Matthew Lee that they be delivered from their ignorance.

Or at least they be struck dumb.

Laughable. When the Black Panthers show up and question why there is black smoke, now that would be funny. Eric Holder would grit his teeth and have to deal with it.

It´s over. Deal with it.

Thanks 1 through 11, you made my day.

Who the hell do these people think they are?

No doubt low information voters and strict Obama supporters too.....

You can´t make this stuff up can you? The lack of understanding of the workings of the church is astonishing.

Reference 11. Although dumb meaning ‘not able to speak’ is the older sense, it has been overwhelmed by the newer sense (meaning ‘stupid’) to such an extent that the use of the first sense is now almost certain to cause offense.

My first thought was that they had already been struck "dumb" using the more popular usage.

Good idea! These elections are fixed. I mean, how else would only Catholics have been elected Pope?

The Satan-looks-like Obama you say!

They are simply just a bunch of educated idiots!

Do you think that they would dare to insinuate such things about Islam? You can safely bet they would not.

Do not overlook that pesky little thing in the Constitution about separation of church and state. Obama hasn´t removed that, has he?

The State Dept. has obviously stepped in DOODOO and can´t shake the Benghazi stuff off it´s shoes...this is pure fantasy diversion...

Yes, because our State Dept is a better judge than My Lord and Savior...

/sarcasm off

Like the original poster stated, we are in a nightmare. I could not have made this concept up.

#23, 0bama IS trying to remove the separation of church and state - by trying to force churches to provide birth control, abortifacients and sterilizations.

I can see it now -- Drunken Uncle Obama would be Pope.

Perhaps the Pope can literally tell these morons to go to Hell.

I think the Pope should have special dispensation to give these people the single digit salute.

I am ready to bet that Pope Francis does his job better than a twice elected president who oversees the state department in question. He is destroying his own country but he thinks himself qualified to run everything and destroy more. Obama is an incompetent idealogue.

It´s payback time Catholics courtesy of Obama. You thought you were exempt.

I heard that Bloomberg is available soon for some new assignment...

Bloomberg could be a roving ambassador and stick his nose into this and try to run
the Catholic hierarchy from the Vatican on down.

Also he can stop the Pope and Cardinals from drinking those pernicious Big Gulps.
Those drinks are ruining Euronations. And he can keep their smokes outa sight.
The Vatican should not let laypeople see all that Papal smoke billowing out.
Baaaad influence.

Yep, time for Bloomy to don his cape... s/o

this is an Onion story, right?

The Cardinals are all in one room. The likely candidates are all well known. The selection this time was the second favorite candidate last time. The ignorance and arrogance of Progressives know no bounds.

Who´s stupid?

"The ODIHR is part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations affiliate. OSCE has 57 member states, including the Holy See and the United States."

The Holy See, a theocracy, signed up to be part of this democratic institutions and human rights outfit. So did the US.