Impossible. Jesus said, “Noli me tangere,” i.e., “Don’t tango with me!”
What’s next -* The Vatican Rag*?
Good thing Bergoglio wasn’t the head of the Jesuits then, or else we’d all be apocalypsed on about now.
Do whatever steps you want if you have cleared them with the pontiff.
I thought he said that he was knocked for a loop by by Noilly Prat.
So much for the pope, but do the cardinals also elect a new Bear in the Woods at the same time?
Did Jesus resurrect this thread like Lazarus? 
I know Jesus isn’t African and wasn’t the first pope, but according to the Bible, his parents did raise him in Egypt, so that certainly connects him to Africa, doesn’t it?
Anyway, the answer is always the same. Anything can portend the end of the world to anyone who believes in portents.
My mum always insisted (tongue firmly in cheek) that there was a prophecy that the last Pope would be black. I’m not sure which prophecy she’s referring to but I’m at home this weekend and will ask her if anyone is interested.
If you bring back the flagellants then you can have masochism as well
Tremendous username/post combo there.
I’ve always been under the impression that Jesus was raised in Galilee. Where does it say that he grew up in Egypt?
Matthew 2:13-15.
[QUOTE=KJV]
And when they were departed, behold,
the angel of the Lord appeareth to
Joseph in a dream, saying, arise, and
take the young child and his mother,
and flee into Egypt, and be thou there
until I bring thee word: for Herod will
seek the young child to destroy him.
When he arose, he took the young child
and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
And was there until the death of Herod:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Out of Egypt have I called my son.
[/QUOTE]
My understanding, perhaps poor, is that the whole first born killing and Jesus going to Egypt didn’t happen - at least according to Luke.
Matthew’s and Luke’s nativities accounts have contradictions with each other. Fundamentalists have to be rather creative to reconcile them. Non-fundamentalist believers recognize the nativity stories as a separate genre from the rest of the gospels. After all, who was privy to the Magi’s conversation with Herod and their subsequent message they received in a dream such that it could be recorded in the gospel? This is unlike the rest of the gospels where the gospel writers knew the people who witnessed the adult Jesus and heard their first-hand accounts. Add in the lack of corroborating evidence for the slaughter of the children of Jerusalem and the impossibility of the movement of the star, and you get a theological construction and not actual history.
To non-fundamentalists, it’s clear that Matthew is presenting Jesus a the ‘New Moses’ and the story of going down into Egypt and the slaughter of infants are purposeful parallels to Moses’ life.
So, most likely he was born and grew up in Galilee (an Aramaic and Greek cultural crossroads) and he and his family were in the habit of traveling to Jerusalem for the big feasts. It is unlikely he ever went to Egypt (sorry, Matthew) or ever spoke Latin (sorry, Mel).
What “bring back”? Don’t come to Spain during Easter if you don’t want to run the risk of watching people carrying crosses, wearing crowns of thorns or flagellating themselves. It doesn’t happen in every procesión - “only” in about half at a guess.