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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you are selected as pope, what will your chosen pope name be?
Mine: Pope "I don't wanna have to protest this shit ever again."
C_U_L8R
(49,178 posts)underpants
(195,760 posts)Itchinjim
(3,180 posts)Walleye
(44,240 posts)hlthe2b
(113,389 posts)After all, one cannot spell GOD without DOG.
Not to mention, there is no single animal more loyal, humble, kind...
milestogo
(22,873 posts)sop
(18,097 posts)Troll the fuck out of him.
regnaD kciN
(27,564 posts)because weve already had a couple of John Pauls.
milestogo
(22,873 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,348 posts)The Madcap
(1,836 posts)Oh, you said Pope, not Caesar... my fault.
RB77
(71 posts)Pope Seewoosauger Q. Rammgoolam. My other choice was Pope Hanibleval Causaquietus, - a little crude.
dweller
(28,037 posts)✌🏻
CTyankee
(67,984 posts)milestogo
(22,873 posts)CTyankee
(67,984 posts)hlthe2b
(113,389 posts)Francis made incremental changes for the better, but hardly addressed all that is needed. Still, not a regressive conservative Pope, so I think we should be grateful for that. At least there will not be likely BACKWARDS momentum and some chance of progressive change.
But, boy were there some awful possibilities among the supposed frontrunners. Whew...
milestogo
(22,873 posts)But now that I'm pope... I will ban all men from the priesthood for the next 2000 years.
hlthe2b
(113,389 posts)milestogo
(22,873 posts)We're too dangerous.
hlthe2b
(113,389 posts)two weeks ago on Twitter/X:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-pope-leo-xiv-bashed-jd-vance-on-twitter-just-weeks-ago/
That is at least amusing as we wait it out the next 2000 years.
AllaN01Bear
(29,060 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,565 posts)I would be very introspective

FSogol
(47,546 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,565 posts)Id be done with any sort of great pumpkin cult. Or anything pumpkin-colored, for that matter. For obvious reasons.
lpbk2713
(43,257 posts)Should go good with that beanie.
Harker
(17,627 posts)eppur_se_muova
(41,477 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(4,229 posts)ret5hd
(22,390 posts)Duncanpup
(15,651 posts)FSogol
(47,546 posts)PittBlue
(4,759 posts)Rver
(246 posts)Bob, Phil, Mickey, Billy, pigpen or Brent.
unblock
(56,111 posts)I mean if they decide to elect a Jewish pope, I might as well lean into it....
GreenWave
(12,503 posts)fargone
(590 posts)ultralite001
(2,457 posts)Sicola...
'Cuz things go better w/ Pope...
Solly Mack
(96,740 posts)TommieMommy
(2,755 posts)True Dough
(26,207 posts)Nin-com-pope.
LudwigPastorius
(14,446 posts)And my motto would be: "Be Pocket Fishermen of men"