Y'know what I wanna be when I grow up? I wanna be a Pope just like Francis! Manger Inn - Vacancy. Bethlehem, A.M. late December - time to be getting on back to Nazareth
One of the best Oliphants of the year, and thus one of the best editorial cartoons of the year! A truly inspired idea, beautifully executed. It ought to be hung up on the walls of every televangelist’s mansion!
What?! I may not be a Christian but I know that Jesus never wanted to be a Pharasee or seen as some other sort of deified entity who was head or part of an organize church like the Catholic one.
Isn’t it sad that the extremists are all in a panic because the Pope is telling us to live like Christ? They are calling him a ‘Marxist’ instead of a Christian. And that is all you need to know about them.
He made peter head of the church. This I what evolved. Warts and all. If all you see are warts you’ll never hear the message. And everyone left behind had warts.
I find it odd that Joseph, if that’s him, had a halo over his head when he and Mary frist arrived. Now Joseph has no halo but Mary still has her’s. I wonder why?
Oliphant has found some one new to idolize. For now. Liberals love the Church’s economics because it has a distributive philosophy—give to the poor while keeping a nice bit for yourself. But the Church also believes that we have souls, leading to certain inevitable positions upon things like abortion and euthanasia. And to liberals, being pro-life is akin to being pro-slavery. This doesn’t seem to bother American Catholics however since all the prominent ones not actually in the priesthood seem to be fervent advocates of abortion. (Just to be sure I make everyone mad, I support abortion myself, but I’m not a Catholic.)
In the Christian tradition he should get a halo because he acceded to God’s will to be the earthly father of a child that was not his. Too many step-fathers, boyfriends, significant others could learn from his acquiescence.
Behave, now. Pat is 78 years old and has been drawing since the mid-1950s. I’ve enjoyed his cartoons since the mid-1960s. How many thousands has he drawn by now? Soon enough, he’ll be gone as are Mauldin and Herblock. Enjoy him while you can..If you want to know some of what it once took to break into the cartooning business, read THE BRASS RING, by Bill Mauldin.
Godfreydaniel over 10 years ago
One of the best Oliphants of the year, and thus one of the best editorial cartoons of the year! A truly inspired idea, beautifully executed. It ought to be hung up on the walls of every televangelist’s mansion!
Enoki over 10 years ago
What?! I may not be a Christian but I know that Jesus never wanted to be a Pharasee or seen as some other sort of deified entity who was head or part of an organize church like the Catholic one.
kennethcwarren64 over 10 years ago
Great just great!Even the trolls, and computer program posts can’t knock it.
Rickapolis over 10 years ago
Isn’t it sad that the extremists are all in a panic because the Pope is telling us to live like Christ? They are calling him a ‘Marxist’ instead of a Christian. And that is all you need to know about them.
Craig66 over 10 years ago
There is a ‘good’ pope today?Is that a “good” fruit on that old tree?
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 10 years ago
The family did go to Egypt while Herod was mass murdering 2 year olds and babies.
Reality,really? over 10 years ago
He made peter head of the church. This I what evolved. Warts and all. If all you see are warts you’ll never hear the message. And everyone left behind had warts.
William Bednar Premium Member over 10 years ago
I find it odd that Joseph, if that’s him, had a halo over his head when he and Mary frist arrived. Now Joseph has no halo but Mary still has her’s. I wonder why?
dennis17 over 10 years ago
Oliphant has found some one new to idolize. For now. Liberals love the Church’s economics because it has a distributive philosophy—give to the poor while keeping a nice bit for yourself. But the Church also believes that we have souls, leading to certain inevitable positions upon things like abortion and euthanasia. And to liberals, being pro-life is akin to being pro-slavery. This doesn’t seem to bother American Catholics however since all the prominent ones not actually in the priesthood seem to be fervent advocates of abortion. (Just to be sure I make everyone mad, I support abortion myself, but I’m not a Catholic.)
SABRSteve over 10 years ago
Of course we do. He said he came to save the world.
edward thomas Premium Member over 10 years ago
In the Christian tradition he should get a halo because he acceded to God’s will to be the earthly father of a child that was not his. Too many step-fathers, boyfriends, significant others could learn from his acquiescence.
phdtogo over 10 years ago
I don’t believe his intention was to become a communist liberation theologian
rossevrymn over 10 years ago
Wow, that wasn’t poignant.
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Behave, now. Pat is 78 years old and has been drawing since the mid-1950s. I’ve enjoyed his cartoons since the mid-1960s. How many thousands has he drawn by now? Soon enough, he’ll be gone as are Mauldin and Herblock. Enjoy him while you can..If you want to know some of what it once took to break into the cartooning business, read THE BRASS RING, by Bill Mauldin.