Good looking pontiffs
 

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It seems that to be Pope, you have to be good looking. Or at least passable.

I don't know though. As I pointedly (and I don't just mean the hat) peruse pictures of pontiffs, it seems that there have been some pontiffs that only a mother could love. The mother of jebus, anyway.

Pope Paul V looks like Satan. Pope Pius VII might not be too bad, but he looks stoned. Pope Gregarious XVI looks like Mr Hurley from Three's Company, and Pope Pius XII totally looks jewish.

What's a girl to do, you might ask, when pondering procuring a pleasing-looking pontiff?

Don't give up. Pope Pius X looks OK, in a Father Knows Best or Ward Cleaver kind of way. You just want to sit on his lap and have him tell you a little parable.

And the current pope, Pope Benedict XVI, isn't bad a'tall, for a pope. And, he's alive!

More popes here!

can we get some pope on a rope?

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Which was the one who was in his twenties, and died mid-orgy? He's my favorite.

Jeremy Irons?
Oh, no. He's older than that.

I prefer a pope in a pizza.

I reread a really rubbish book last week.
NO IDEA where it was from originally, took it to Wales because I couldn't remember reading it.

BUT it introduced me to the concept of St Malachy's prophecies.
Apparently they have predicted all the recent Popes (for apparently read spuriously) and we are waiting now for Peter the Roman who will oversee the end of the world. Or Rome. And that might well come in my lifetime I admit. Hey, Silvio?

Pope Benedict XVI, or as I like to call him, Joey Rats, looks like Emperor Palpatine.

I nominate Pope Formosus who looked bad enough in life (image 1) but looked far worse in death (image 2) when he was put on trial by his successor, Pope Stephen VI (image 3).

Stephen is chiefly remembered in connection with his conduct towards the remains of Pope Formosus. He wasn't real happy with some of Formosus action as Pope and had the rotting corpse of Formosus exhumed and put on trial, in the so-called Cadaver Synod in January 897.

With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers of its right hand (the blessing fingers), clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried. Later it was then re-exhumed and thrown into the Tiber.

Things used to be so much more interesting in the papacy.