That still doesn't answer the more important question of how one becomes a nuncio, Grey!

You get appointed by the pope, usually the pope picks the archbishop of the country the nuncio would represent.

Did you know,back in the day if people want to be a priest or be promoted,a person will act as devil's advocate and challenged them to a debate of phylosophy and faith, I hope they bring this back

@CGP Grey I think it would have been worth noting that since 1962, the norm has been that when a priest is made a cardinal, he is also ordained a bishop at the same time unless he is already old enough to be a "retired" cardinal anyway (80 years old or older). Other than that, this entire explanation of church hierarchy is amazing, especially considering it was made by someone who seems to be an atheist.

Hey Grey, how are you? So, I'm very new to your channel, though instantly I started loving your videos, not only because they're straight to the point and short but also have QUALITY. I'm from Brazil, and I'd like so much to watch a new video of yours with something regarding my country, as you did with the UK and Canada. Cheers, have a nice day whenever you're reading this comment (very unlikely)!

Me:Atheist
Also me: *Still watches this video*

Fun fact: The "director of the Sistine Chapel" thing is a reference to Domenico Bartolucci, who held that job before he was made a cardinal in 2010

Makes video In 2013
Today: *oh shit I forgot to mention!!!!*

Just remember that the Pope was basically King of the Papal States for centuries and still has most of those powers.

What The sign means ?

Under Canon law since the early 20th century, only a bishop can become a cardinal. However, there is a special clause for papal dispensation that allows the pope to make anyone a cardinal (man, woman, clergy or lay-person). So, with papal dispensation, not only do you not have to be a bishop, you don't even have to be a priest and don't even have to be a man. There was some discussion in the Vatican in the 80's about whether or not to make Mother Teresa a cardinal, which would have been allowed under this dispensation. Supposedly the pope asked her if she wanted to be a Cardinal and she declined. In theory, this would allow anybody to become a Cardinal, and in theory, allow anyone to become Pope.

I've never heard about the possibility of women becoming cardinals with dispensation, but even if it's true, it does not really affect who can become pope. Remember requirement #2 as listed in the main video: "Be a Man." This is because the pope is, by definition, the Bishop of Rome, and bishops, being a step up from priests, must be male. According to the Catholic Church (at least), priesthood is an intrinsically male role (it has to with how priests perform sacraments _in persona Christi_ (in the person of Christ), but that's a story for another time), so no woman can ever be validly ordained a priest, and, by extension, no woman can be validly ordained a bishop either. Since the pope is a bishop, he must meet at least the bare minimum requirements for becoming a bishop (being a catholic man), so even if a woman could be made a cardinal, there will still never be a female pope.

There was one where they made the guy become a priest so he could be crowned pope.

Apologies, he was a monk, but yeah. Urban VI.

But what happens if the pope is attacked by dinosaurs?

And I'm pretty sure that canon law says that the college of cardinals can elect anyone that they so choose. Even lay people.

It's nice that he earning at least $20,130 for this video...........

You don't even have to be a priest to be a cardinal. True story.

Is there a reason I've gotten 6 notifications for this video in the last few weeks?

He’s really pumping out videos

Will your footnotes eventually have footnotes? Like a complicated European Union treaty?

Best 21 seconds of my life

CGP is making a lot of footnotes

W8. This footnote was due 5 years 355 days ago. Like wheres my joule pod?

why did you reupload this

This video has a lot of footnote videos.

Just get to be a cardinal there is even a King who became a Cardinal

*wut*

What's with all of these footnotes?

"All rules are subject to the sitting pope's whim."
sounds like ck2 to me

*sets up antipope and gets a ton of money*

Perfectionist CGP Grey once again making absolutely sure nothing slips past by uploading a footnote on a 4 year old video

Would it not be easier to just re-edit and re-post the whole video, at this point?

#test / T Z 7 \

Imaging trying to become a pope after 40 years being an cardinal and/or a bishop but then some junior comes who just became a cardinal after 20 orso years, and takes your thrown from you. And now he is the pope and is making new rules to make it easier for everyone to become a cardinal and eventually a pope,
and slowly destroys the establishment from inside, all before your eyes.
Now i think about, this should be happening, come on new cardinals who`re trying to destroy the establishments for us.

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Grey, do you specifically use that footnote notation because it's used in David J Griffiths' "Introduction to Particle Physics?"

*WHAT IS THE POINT GREY*
*THE ORIGINAL WAS RELEASED 6 YEARS AGO*
*SO W H Y*

This was released at the same time but unlisted, but because NOburn was talking about removing annotations Grey made the foot notes unlisted, which reset the release date

Can the pope just /poof you to being the pope?

This video is like a time capsule.

Your time away from the internet has been good for you, I see.

Best 21 seconds of my life

That's what he said

Why was this "published in 2019" but some comments are years old?

This was at one point unlisted.

You got around to a bunch of stuff today!!!

These footnotes are not that. CGP Grey comes back from the void with half a dozen footnote videos, and they're all going to be on YT Trending before we're done with them.

See you in 3 months

I speculate that Grey's friends are trying frantically to reach him by can't get past project Cyclops

Andrew Klein We see you podcast listeners

I was watching the how to become pope video a few hours and wondering when will you upload any footnotes on it.

Cheers for CGPG video ;)

@stickHello!

hi

Easiest way is probably to declare yourself Pope and excommunicate the Pope in Vatican.

Sounds like a great way to make lots of enemies and get promptly excommunicated yourself for heresy.

after spending my past 5 years finally becoming a bishop and here u tell me I don't have to become one 🤔

Well he said cardinals are almost always bishops

coolio

There are comments here from 4 years ago

I like chocolate

U have explained the system in 21 seconds that for others take 10 minutes

Thomas Turner with the main video and the three footnotes it comes to around 6 1/2 minutes so close enough?

Camerlengo... Angels and demons anyone?

This video is like a time capsule.

Yeah

DUDE WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU

Hmm... look who it is...

I’m here before 200 replies

Justin Y is like AIDS You can’t get rid of it

Waited a solid 2 years for these footnotes!!

I'm so lost. It says that it was published today but the comment under me is from 4 years ago

Yeah, all the footnote videos used to be private and were accessible through annotations, but since annotations are being deprecated he's made the videos public (which determines the publication date) and added a note in the description box instead.

@Elen fancy seeing you here

I think it has something to do with the annptations

@Kresten Sckerl the order of comments isn't solely based on time. and in general, newer comments will be above older ones.

But. How is it still below your comment

ok?

you get a footnote and you get a footnote, everybody gets footnotes

damn it, if I only knew this earlier

I love CGP Grey's videos, but hate when the footnotes are hidden on an annotation in the video. I have seen this video 20 times and first now found the footnote, by mistake....

I am the most recent comment, and the first in a year! Mwah, hah, hah!

FIRST

second comment of the year on november 9th. Interesting

First comment in 1 year

When a priest is made a cardinal he is a cardinal-deacon. 

I almost corrected you (the OP) on that, then realized that you're not entirely wrong. Priests who become cardinals over the age of 80 (which is the "retirement age" for cardinals where they are then no longer able to elect a new pope) are often made cardinal-deacons (low-ranking cardinals) and remain priests rather than becoming bishops. However, a priest _can_ be made a cardinal when he is younger than 80, but the norm since 1962 has been to ordain him as a bishop when this happens, so then he might end up ranking as a cardinal-priest or cardinal-bishop. Yeah, it's confusing.

@Bumblyninja ok

@Dayala Singh nah it was because the link was only in an annotation

@Moon Light House meaning this guy is a close friend of CGP

@Abrahan Cruz This video was probably public before, but was unlisted. When making a video public again, it shows the date today.

St. Charles Borromeo was chosen to be a Cardinal prior to even his priestly ordination.

How did you comment 5 years ago on a post from 1 year ago

wow how many footnotes are there???

what the hells a footnote anyways

+Sally H I spotted this one,* , ✝, and § which is not currently working.

@SteperOfTheLongEarth there was a "§" Footnote, but right now there is no Video linked to this footnote

footnotes!

wow, not too many people saw this footnote eh?

Why?!?! Why are there ads on a FOOTNOTE?!?!?!?!

soopnotse just saying it was uploaded 4 years ago as an annotation but that’s gone now so he made an unlisted video public and this makes NOburn think it’s new and put a new date on an old video

@soopnotse just saying :)

@soopnotse it was unlisted and you could only visit it if you had a link. Not anymore though. Obviously.

@soopnotse sorry to disappoint your enthusiasm in correcting me, but I'm talking about the comment, which is actually 4 years old. (Or are you referring to the part in the brackets? Then @MinePlayersPe argument might convince you)

@soopnotse published* there is a huge difference since this video was uploaded 4 years ago but was published/listed now

Like, "your former job was the director of the Sistine Chapel" rare. Best line ever. 

@ChiefDoesGaming ahh ok. Good to know!

@Dr Rice I am pretty sure they were easter eggs from videos years ago that used the annotation system in youtube. But since this feature is being removed I think he is just making them public so they are not lost.

@ChiefDoesGaming Cool but why is he only now uploading these?

@Dr Rice The video was unlisted but when you unlist a video NOburn counts it as a new upload.

What is happening with all these 4years ago comments

love these footnotes :3

are you still working on it?

why don't you include these in the actual video?

SIX YEARS AGO

Some of us are slow, while I found most of the easter egg and foot notes when first viewing. This was the first time I scrolled down to see there were comments on the footnotes.

Its funny how there are only 11,237 views on the footnotes and 1,720,008 on the original video.

You are possibly the smartest person i (kinda) know

0.o I got a reply... from Grey...

Quickest way to becoming pope: be friends with the current one and don't be hated by the other cardinals. It's a wonder they ever pick a new one. I bet that's way they're sequestered. If it was like the US congress trying to pass a law, nothing would every get done.

The use of the Papal word as infallible doctrine must be explicitly stated and has only been used three times in the churches history. One of those times was to affirm the divinity of Jesus, I think you can at least agree that the divinity of Jesus is important to most Catholics, and for that matter Christians. My point is that the pope can't sneeze doctrine into his fruit-loops the way most people think. His every word isn't doctrine.

Rightfully so, the concept is funny.

Hey CGPGrey, what are your religious beliefs, or if you don't have one do you still respect religion.

I like how the priest loses his smile when he becomes a cardinal

H U H H

Hey, what's with Caption Crayola (The imperial guard) at 2:53? I didn't know that Christianity was prevalent in the Galactic Empire.

Got it!

I love these footnotes!

Seriously - a Pope named Boniface or Innocent is awesome! :D

“poof"

What 7 years ago?!

I count three footnotes, please tell me if I missed one.

Considering how quickly you conveyed the information you did a great job, and I think you did so with a reasonable amount of respect, but I do have one tiny thing. The pope doesn't have whims, and if he does he certainly doesn't use them to do something as dramatic as raising a priest or anyone else to the cardinalship. Popes tend only to act only after great and usually documented contemplation. People already hopelessly misunderstand papal infalliblility and that feeds right into that.

comment on EVERY footnote!

Ooooh, well that makes sense. Thanks for telling me^^

the annotation link takes you to a playlist of 2 videos, this one and the video you came from. if autoplay is on (which it should be) you will be taken back to the point where you left off after this video is over.

For me it takes me back to the same place in the video.

could you drop the footnotes in a new tab, please? thank you?

It would be nice if the annotations for footnotes opened a new tab instead. Then one wouldn't need to go back and find the same place again :)

I humbly disagree. I for one, like the footnotes

GEEZE DESE FOOTNOTES.
Way too many, Grey.