I don’t know any popes personally, but ordinary priests usually wear the same things as anyone else underneath their robes. There’s a little dressing-room area called the sacristy behind the altar area in most churches, where they put on the robe right before a service, and then generally take it back off again right away afterwards.
If I’m Pope, I’m going commando under my robe…I’d mumble something about how Jesus used to do it.
And I’d commission some custom Nikes.
Then I’d get hooked up with a custom Lamborghini like Francis was gifted (only I wouldn’t auction mine for charity)
Now there’s a pretty cool Papal Bull.
Guardian article with info about Leo’s family heritage:
Bulls and popes have a bad history, since the Borgias used a red bull as a crest.
And at every Mass he will offer DA PRAYERS.
If he doesn’t start at least of his first speeches with “We’re on a mission from God,” his papacy should be immediately revoked.
Will he refer to nuns as “penguins”?
Once. Maybe.
Even the Pope fears the nuns.
Oh yeah, nuns are folks not to mess around with.
Especially in the era he grew up in. I caught the tail end of that era, a mix of younger “new-age” nuns and the old battle axes.
My youth was influenced by catholic nuns. We lived opposite the catholic church, just up the street from a catholic school, my dad was catholic, and we went to mass every Sunday. Then my dad died. The fucking nuns tried to take control of our household - I know they were trying to help, but my mother, a not very religious Anglican, just needed to be left in peace to grieve. They were always in the way. That was the start of my glide into atheism.
I do have an uncle who is quite high up in the catholic church, and he is a nice guy. But not because of his religion.
Back in the late-eighties one of my co-workers was a Catholic Vietnamese immigrant. One lunchtime conversation nuns were mentioned and he immediately said, “Ooh!” and rubbed the back if his wrist.
I asked, “Are nuns like that in Viernam, too?”
“Nuns like that everywhere, I think.”
That was a great and evocative turn of phrase. Well done!
Somehow it instantly brought to mind that old joke where the punchline is the traffic cop on the phone/radio with HQ:
I don’t know, but he’s got da Pope drivin’ for him."
Interesting article about supposed conclave machinations
What would the anti-pope wear? All black?
And what will happen if the pope and the anti-pope meet? Will they vanish in a big burst of energy?
And would it be white smoke or black smoke?
Depends on who has more mass.