Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

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

^^ ecclesiastically accurate burn

That's gonna be my new stickup line when I turn to crime."gimme half your mercy!"

This is really crazy, is the pope an android or something?

I wonder, if the Pope gets outta line - who gonna check em? He the pope yo - aint nobody can check em

There's a weekly fanzine.

http://www.formiche.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Il-Mio-Papa-400x349.jpg

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2014/mar/05/pope-francis-il-mio-papa-silvio-berlusconi

http://i.imgur.com/QHZ1sYI.jpg

He'll be hanging with Charlie Sheen by this time next year.

That is the expression, imo, of a man who will kill again

He was such a quiet pope, never bothered anyone, kept mostly to himself ...

Actually, last pope fit serial killer model better.

This pope is more like some "Adam Sandler accidentally becomes pope" movie. Relatively speaking.

you know at best i'm a pretty ambivalent non-churchgoing Catholic these days, but that's a mean thing to say.

relatively.

http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/yimcatholic/files/2013/03/537721_10200855986148258_584094388_n.jpg

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-goes-on-retreat-takes-the-bus/

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/Pope_Francis_arrives_by_bus_in_Ariccia_Italy_for_a_week_of_Lenten_spiritual_exercises_on_March_9_2014_Credit_ANSA_OSSERVATORE_ROMANO_CNA_3_10_11.jpg

so many stolen corpse-rosaries in there

well here he lost the silent majority of ilx

The Pope criticised couples who decide not to have children during the service, saying they had been seduced by the myth that a life of material comfort is better than raising a family. 'You can go explore the world, go on holiday, you can have a villa in the countryside, you can be carefree,' he said. It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog, two cats, and the love goes to the two cats and the dog. Is this true or not? Have you seen it?', the Pope added. 'Then, in the end this marriage comes to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness,' he went on to say. The remarks came over the Pope told those gathered that the three most important aspects of a Christian marriage are fidelity, perseverance and 'fruitfulness', according to Vatican Radio.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646782/Pope-Francis-tells-couples-not-pets-instead-raising-children-lead-bitterness-loneliness-later-life.html

No shocker there. These are common bromides that have just enough truth to describe a carefully selected slice of reality, but not enough truth to describe reality.

"Those cats don't really love you, anyway" added the Pope.

good thing he has millions of pets to help stave off loneliness in his old age

pope otm until your shitty kids abandon you to a retirement home.

Mrs. Gualtieri is not having a good time there

Contraception off the shitlist?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11109080/Pope-Francis-adviser-hints-at-rethink-on-contraception-ban.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html

fuckit I'm in I love this guy

Francis’s comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was “more than a hypothesis” and “effectively proven fact”.

we're not a gaggle of Baptists, u know

Pope Benedict XVI fooled us

Kathryn Jean Lopez retweeted
Kevin Cotter @KevinRCotter · Oct 27
Just found out that my book, A Year of Mercy with Pope Francis, will be available in 3 days. Can't wait. http://ow.ly/i/7mtqc

so will you revise it?

yeah Pope Ratz was a special dude Rottweiler

if k-lo is anything i know she isn't a cafeteria catholic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/11/05/pope-francis-has-99-problems-and-they-are-all-his-pellegrina/

"I love 'Gloria'!"

http://www.cathnewsusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/r-PATTI-SMITH-AND-POPE-FRANCIS-large570.jpg

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pope-francis-gets-patti-smith-singing-cardinals-vatican-christmas-concert-1474736

"I wrote 'Frederick' about ne of your predecessors!

that is amazing

"Pope Francis said, 'I have a sensation that my pontificate will be short: four or five years, or two or three.'

"'I feel the Lord,' the pope added, 'has placed me here for a short time.'

"Francis also praised his predecessor's decision to resign as courageous. Benedict's decision, the pope said, opened the door to popes emeritus.

"He also said he doesn't mind being pope, but would like to go out in Rome unrecognized, for a pizza."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/13/392817912/pope-francis-says-his-tenure-at-the-vatican-will-be-short

Love this guy for all time but hope he remains Pope for a long long time.

fun w/ the Vatican Bank!

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34838/papa-francesco-would-like-to-see-the-real-books-please/

So the pope beatified Archbishop Romero, a martyr generally considered a foul commie by Church righties for 35+ years. Also, il papa has made friendly gestures to the founder of liberation theology.

(Chas Pierce got the timing of Romero's murder wrong -- Carter was president, not RR.)

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35248/the-pope-does-the-right-thing/

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/father-of-liberation-theology-praises-new-climate-at-vatican-1.2370340

http://gawker.com/rick-santorum-is-this-close-to-beating-the-popes-ass-1708786657

Rick Santorum—a rust-belted Pittsburgher who has embraced the Petrine church ever since he stopped being pro-choice in his first congressional election—is smeared in penitence and frothy with faith, and he will show this pontiff who’s supreme.

Santorum has challenged leftist Pope Francis to stick to photo ops in the Basilica after the Bishop of Rome mouthed off about the un-Christianness of messing up Earth’s environmental health. Via HuffPo:

Santorum, a devout Catholic, told Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano on Monday that the pope should “leave science to the scientists.”

His comments come as the pope, who earned a master’s degree in chemistry before turning to the priesthood, becomes increasingly vocal about climate change. Pope Francis is preparing a groundbreaking encyclical to be released in the coming weeks that’s expected to make the case that taking action to fight climate change is a moral and religious imperative.

loool