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   AlexanderTheGoodEnough said, 3 months ago

   Right. Advice for the next pope (& Co.): If the shoe fits, wear it!
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   Richard S. Russell said, 3 months ago

   I understand that Herman Cain and Sarah Palin are available.
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   Michael wme said, 3 months ago

   Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has moved to a cloistered convent, and will wear the same outfit he wore as pope, except for the ruby slippers.

   
   In a seemingly unrelated thread, I just saw a Simpson’s rerun in which Maggie was trying to learn the word ‘octogenarian’.

   
   Once, I would gladly have spent the rest of my life in a cloistered convent, but today, all the inhabitants would be octogenarians, at least until their next birthdays.
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   pcolli said, 3 months ago

   “There’s no place like home.”
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   @pcolli

   Shouldn’t that be :“There’s No Place Like ROME??”
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   Orthodox Catholic said, 3 months ago

   I note how Oliphant makes the Cardinals all look like thugs in his drawing. Just another in a long line of bigots. One thinks that he would only be happy if the Catholic Church disappeared from the face of the earth. Then he could have his Socialist utopia he dreams of.
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   Mark said, 3 months ago

   I’d certainly be happy if the Catholic Church disappeared from the face of the earth.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   @Orthodox Catholic

   Don’t see it at all. Can you say…“Paranoia”??
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   What quaint and curious costumes.
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    Kit Walker said, 3 months ago

    One of Oliphant’s best! Hilarious!
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    Chillbilly said, 3 months ago

    Yeah, this one is brilliant. “Small shoes to fill.”
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    JoeCoolLives said, 3 months ago

    @Michael wme

    Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has moved to a cloistered convent, and will wear the same outfit he wore as pope, except for the ruby slippers.
    _______________

    You mean he’ll still wear that two-foot tall HAT (crown)??? How pretentious…
    I kinda thought he would would live the life of a simple man, but clearly, there is no handbook out there that defines the lifestyle of a former pope…for over six centuries, former popes have simply laid in repose, having been called home by The Maker of All Things.

    Perhaps he’ll get the rest he needs if he simple declares that he wants to be treated like any other former pope…an occasional quiet and dignified visit, and otherwise left alone in the papal catacombs…

    I left my job “early” because of all the pomp an’ ceremony – but I didn’t die, and I’m not tellin’ what that job was…
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    Simon_Jester said, 3 months ago

    @Richard S. Russell

    They’ll have to wait in line behind Mel Gibson
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @Mark

    Aren’t Jesus’ main tenets socialist?
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    Dycel said, 3 months ago

    @David

    Only those that don’t belong to a church, the rest are only in it for the money, kids and power to confuse!
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