Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

you are absolutely correct and I regret my flippant post from yesterday, if I had a beer with the dude his goons would probably throw me out of a helicopter afterwards

TIME Person of the Year

http://i.imgur.com/421606U.jpg

Miley Cyrus picks up a copy, thinks: "KLo was right! I am the Person of the Year!"

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71676000/jpg/_71676112_71676107.jpg
Pope-ing ain't easy!

Didn't think of it til now, but am now realizing what a bullet we dodged in electing him as POTY rather than Miley Cyrus.

or pope, even

Let's agree that the church has backward agendas on sexuality and equality for women. They do some other stuff that's good -- feeding the hungry, running hospitals, etc.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, November 29, 2013 4:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gabbneb

gotta love how me and morbs are over here being the catholic iatees, but morbs otm

― druhilla (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:01 AM (2 months ago)

the catholic church actually owns allot of real estate

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/financial-scandals-the-hidden-wealth-of-the-catholic-church-a-700513.html

hey Matt u have yr Democratic Church

also PFI saved Time from having to transparently not pick Snowden

or assad. basically any greenwald hero.

http://www.startribune.com/world/238706881.html

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Pope to nuns: Why aren't you answering the phone? Francis cold-calls nuns, gets machine

Article by: Associated Press
Updated: January 4, 2014 - 1:09 PM

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Pope Francis smiles as he leaves Rome's Jesus' Church to celebrate a mass with the Jesuits, on the occasion of the order's titular feast, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014.

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine, instead.

"What are the nuns doing that they can't answer the phone?" Francis asked in the message he left, the recording of which was obtained by Spain's El Mundo newspaper and broadcast on Italian media Saturday.

"This is Pope Francis. I wanted to offer you greetings for the end of the year. Maybe I'll try to call again later. May God bless you," he said.

Francis has made a habit out of calling people out of the blue, often checking in with ordinary folk who have written him about their hardships. He places the calls himself, as evidenced by the message.

sad pope trombone.wav

but seriously, wtf were the nuns doing

Nunthings.

pope stops to think about what the nuns could possibly be doing

pope orders inquiry into what do nuns do all day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oRoVAdhtoc

pope gives a guy a lift

Heeeyyyy I'm just an ordinary guyyyyyyyy, me, just popin away the days bein all chillllll

Only a matter of time before he kicks off the apocalypse and the mask falls

I secretly hope the nuns were doing some weird druidic ritual in a dark fiery cave, nude

brb casting a nunsploitation thriller

Every fifteen minutes cut back to the answering machine.

Popeshot

chocolate pope

http://i1.wp.com/www.equinoxpub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Chocolate-Pope.jpg

Gainin' on ya

If you eat his nose first, he says "Who am I to judge?"

Where I come from the pope's nose is edible, but it isn't made of chocolate.

man, what are ya supposed to say to someone who plops you in front of a life-sized chocolate statue of yourself

You say thank you very much, then later that someone gets fired.

later that day

they could at least have made the vestments out of white chocolate so he could play pranks around the residence with it

as is it would make for some ok antipope jokes

pope gives up chocolate for Lent. troll pope with giant chocolate statue of pope.

This is unexpected

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/05/pope-francis-church-could-support-civil-unions/

can't believe we missed the obvious 'take, eat, this is my body' jokes

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Pope confesses he stole his late confessor's cross in hopes of having half as much mercy

Article by: NICOLE WINFIELD , Associated Press
Updated: March 6, 2014 - 8:52 AM

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Pope Francis celebrates the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis confessed Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, "Give me half your mercy."

Francis made the revelation Thursday during an informal chat with Roman priests about the need to be merciful to their flocks. He told the story of the "great confessor" of Buenos Aires who had heard confessions from most of the diocesan priests as well as from Pope John Paul II when he visited Argentina.

When the priest died, Francis went to pray by his open casket and was stunned that no one had brought any flowers.

"This man forgave the sins of all the priests of Buenos Aires, but not a single flower ...?" Francis recalled. So he went out and bought a bouquet of roses, and when he returned to arrange them around the casket, he saw the rosary the priest still held in his hand.

"And immediately there came to mind the thief we all have inside ourselves and while I arranged the flowers I took the cross and with just a bit of force I removed it," he said, showing with his hands how he pulled the cross off the rosary. "And in that moment I looked at him and I said 'Give me half your mercy.'"

Francis said he kept the cross in his shirt pocket for years, but that the cassock he wears now as pope doesn't have a pocket. He now keeps it in a little pouch underneath.

pope steals from dead priest, fukkin wicked

pope doesn't have a pocket? why not steal one

Someone needs to make a sitcom based on this guy.

pope steals confessor's nose

http://tamberrinoartstudio.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_29074.jpg

they will, AB, esp if the Curia poison him

who could possibly play him in a sitcom

Jonathan Pryce!

That would rule so much!

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/4/9/1/7/0/3/Pope-Francis-Jeffrey-Tambor-103840793473.jpeg

i was kidding, it is obv tambor

Robert Blake as Benedict XVI.

that "just a bit of force" is superb.

I think he has the only job in the world where you could get away with demonstrating how you stole a cross from a corpse's hands.

Its p much the job, when you think about it