**As we all know the best weapon against evil creatures in good old holy water. It has divine powers and brings the God’s wrath upon hell spawns… 
But, can the Pope bless the whole Pacific? Or if he has problem with saltwater, he could at least stick his crucifix in the largest freshwater lake. Possable, or even the “pope-blessing-powers” have limits. How many Popes does it take to bless the ocean?
(It sure sounds like “How many blondes does it take to skrew a light bulb…:D”)**
Speak up, I can’t hear you.
The Pope has some pretty powerful blessing mojo. I was in an “audience” with The Pope once (the *real *Pope, JP-2), which consisted of about 9000 people standing around in St. Peter’s Square. They had a “blessing of the artifacts” or something like that. I’d brought along a small crucifix to be blessed. So assuming everyone had something, that’s 9000 artifacts blessed with one wave of the Papal hand.
An entire ocean? Might take a bit longer, but I’ll bet JP-2 could have pulled it off. He was one awesome pontiff!
Buy your self some hearing aid. Or just stop sticking things in your ears. NOT HEALTHY
Cool, and if there are 9000 people standing knee-deep in the sea and the Pope makes his special BLESS-WAVE move . . .
If he hasn’t already, he should. These vampires are getting tiresome.
Seeing as that the proper disposal of holy water is accomplished by depositing it directly in the ground, I expect that trying to bless a large body of water would be like trying to charge a grounded circuit.
So he can’t just bless all water on Earth, and be done with this business once and for all?
Isn’t there also a prohibition against drinking it?
Blessing all water would presumably include the water in my toilet.
So then when I go and piss in that flushable font of blessed water, have I sinned?
In fact, my piss is 99%+ water – was that included when the Pope blessed all the water on earth? Holy piss, indeed!
Wait, first we need the conversion rate from Stanley nickels to Shrute bucks.
Eastern Catholics and Orthodox DO drink it.
Poor vampires. If the pope blesses an ocean, pretty soon they won’t be able to go out in the sun or the rain.
Pope blessed my ass once, and fire shot out. Holy fire!
Might have been hellfire though, I’m not sure. I wasn’t on the receiving end.
Seeing as there are roughly as many atoms in a large glass of water than there are glasses of water on the planet, then surely every body of water, however small should reasonably be considered to contain water that has been blessed by some Pope. And many atoms must have been blessed more than once (although my head hurts trying to work out the likehood of any one atom being blessed several times over). What then for vampires eh? Eh?
Or does it the water lose it’s blessed status once it’s gone through the water cycle?
That’s how I’d interpret the whole letting it seep into the ground thing to dispose of it.
ISTM, there is a difference between issuing a general or special blessing upon one or more or an indefinite range of things/persons/collectives thereof, and specifically consecrating for a particular sacramental purpose a finite number/amount/portion thereof. So unless an expert in Canon Law corrects me otherwise, you would make “holy water” of a finite volume, not of an ocean. Besides, the Pope wouldn’t do it because he’d think it pointless, considering among other things that there’s no vampire menace to stop.
I suppose “factual questions” based on silly hypotheticals are withon the pale, but really, people…
It used to be that he could but since the Second Vatican Council it was decided that the Pope’s powers capped at blessing the Indian Ocean. Some wiki and some basic math later, it would take 2.5 popes to bless the Pacific.
So, is that like what DC Comics did back in the 80s when they rebooted Superman with more finite powers? And, was John Byrne involved in Vatican II?
Can the Pope cure a ham?