VATICAN CITY (AP) —
Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic church has chosen a new pope.
White smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave have elected a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
The new pope is expected to appear on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica within an hour, after a church official announces "Habemus Papum" — "We have a pope" — and gives the name of the new pontiff in Latin.
The conclave was called after Pope Benedict XVI resigned last month, throwing the church into turmoil and exposing deep divisions among cardinals tasked with finding a manager to clean up a corrupt Vatican bureaucracy as well as a pastor who can revive Catholicism in a time of growing secularism.
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We're all going to have to agree on one Pope joke, and that will be our go-to Pope joke.
I don't care what it is, but I don't have the intestinal fortitude for 18 pages of Pope jokes.
If you want to know if I
If you want to know if I agree, let me phrase my answer in the form of a question....
Does the pope poop in the woods??
Does a bear wear a funny hat??
Hmm
"We're all going to have to agree on one Pope joke, and that will be our go-to Pope joke."
So are you popen to suggestions?
Everybody popes
Everybody popes
See, I knew Courtney wanted...
...to play in the puns!
I would
I would make a pope joke but they're already in mass....
The pope and a lawyer are on
The pope and a lawyer are on the elevator to heaven. When they arrive at the gates, there's a mad rush of angels, saints, and other holy people on their way to greet them.
When they arrive, they pick the lawyer up on their shoulders and carry him off cheering hysterically. The pope is deeply saddened.
St. Peter sees this and goes over to him and says, "Don't feel bad. We get popes in here all the time, it's not every day we get a lawyer."
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Since Pope John Paul is getting up in age the Vatican has started an early campaign to ''recruit'' a successor. They have interviewed many applicants and after many months of interviewing they have narrowed the search to TWO final candidates: Bishop McLaughlin from Dublin Ireland and Bishop Sicola from New York. They are both very good candidates. The Vatican selection committee finally settled on Bishop Sicola. Though after much debate they changed their minds and said that Bishop Sicola would NOT be a good choice because it wouldn't seem proper to address the new pontiff as ''pope-si-cola.''
LOL!
Good ones!
yep
Quill brings the best jokes. No doubt about that.