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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
(49,417 posts)underpants
(196,669 posts)Itchinjim
(3,183 posts)Walleye
(44,986 posts)hlthe2b
(114,070 posts)After all, one cannot spell GOD without DOG.
Not to mention, there is no single animal more loyal, humble, kind...
milestogo
(23,111 posts)sop
(18,757 posts)Troll the fuck out of him.
regnaD kciN
(27,656 posts)because weve already had a couple of John Pauls.
milestogo
(23,111 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,502 posts)The Madcap
(1,924 posts)Oh, you said Pope, not Caesar... my fault.
RB77
(90 posts)Pope Seewoosauger Q. Rammgoolam. My other choice was Pope Hanibleval Causaquietus, - a little crude.
dweller
(28,472 posts)✌🏻
CTyankee
(68,262 posts)milestogo
(23,111 posts)CTyankee
(68,262 posts)hlthe2b
(114,070 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
(23,111 posts)But now that I'm pope... I will ban all men from the priesthood for the next 2000 years.
hlthe2b
(114,070 posts)milestogo
(23,111 posts)We're too dangerous.
hlthe2b
(114,070 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
(29,592 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,755 posts)I would be very introspective

FSogol
(47,632 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,755 posts)Id be done with any sort of great pumpkin cult. Or anything pumpkin-colored, for that matter. For obvious reasons.
lpbk2713
(43,280 posts)Should go good with that beanie.
Harker
(17,850 posts)eppur_se_muova
(42,002 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(4,243 posts)ret5hd
(22,513 posts)Duncanpup
(15,651 posts)FSogol
(47,632 posts)PittBlue
(4,807 posts)Rver
(271 posts)Bob, Phil, Mickey, Billy, pigpen or Brent.
unblock
(56,214 posts)I mean if they decide to elect a Jewish pope, I might as well lean into it....
GreenWave
(12,671 posts)fargone
(625 posts)ultralite001
(2,564 posts)Sicola...
'Cuz things go better w/ Pope...
Solly Mack
(96,994 posts)TommieMommy
(2,950 posts)True Dough
(26,812 posts)Nin-com-pope.
LudwigPastorius
(14,784 posts)And my motto would be: "Be Pocket Fishermen of men"