“It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today.”
“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”
“Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.”
“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”
“Fuck the Pope”
“Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of Prague. The price war was on [...] The Retail Pope would offer cheesy bacon toppings on the Host with communion and the Discount Pope would counter with topless nun night for midnight mass.”