I tried to be a priest once. The bastards wouldn’t even budge on the part about being Catholic, even when I pointed out my First Amendment rights (which apparently they just pretend don’t even exist in Rome) so I refuse to work for them now.
Though if I did become Pope I think it’d be fun to issue fiats and speak ex-cathedra via Snapchat.
Religion / Next Pope
To become the next Pope
Time Event Selection Odds More
18:00
Who Will be The Next Pope?
Cardinal Marc Ouellet
3/1
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
4/1
Cardinal Francis Arinze
5/1
Cardinal Angelo Scola
5/1
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri
7/1
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi
9/1
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga
11/1
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco
12/1
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone
16/1
Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer
16/1
Cardinal Claudio Hummes
20/1
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn
20/1
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio
33/1
Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi
33/1
Cardinal Timothy Dolan
33/1
Cardinal Canizares Llovera
33/1
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith
33/1
Cardinal Renato Martino
33/1
Cardinal Piero Marini
33/1
Cardinal Wilfred Fox Napier
40/1
I think you’re onto something. Everybody knows a witch floats and they are evil. Really, everybody knows that. So the Pope, who is good, must therefore sink. Throw all the candidates in a pool and the first one to the bottom, meaning the most good, is the Pope.
Back in college, we played Quarters. You’d let a quarter roll down your nose, bounce once on the table and (hopefully) land in a shot glass of beer. If the quarter missed, you had to drink the shot. If it dunked, you chose who had to drink it. Maybe they could play that with holy wine and those little wafers.