Pope popes, unpopes, repopes, depopes, re-repopes...

... and is now re-depoping. Or something like that. Confused? You're not the only one.

Comments

[MMajor Fan]

Everyone sing together:

La CCPope è mobile
Qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento — e di pensiero.

[Brian Schuettler]

I think what we have here is a failure to ,er, commit!

[LJ]

At his age, I would have thought that losing his clerical status to enter the Catholic Church would have been less onerous. As Marcus Grodi will attest, for younger Protestant clergy it is indeed a huge commitment, for financial reasons, if nothing else.

Pope definitely, as they say, has issues, perhaps illustrated as follows;

Which Rite is right?
Is difficult to see.

For Pope to hope,
or ever hope to pope

It's a pot pourri of popery.

(Sorry padraigh, an amateur attempt)

[padraighh]

My dear LJ,

As you must well know
I love to write Doggeral
But he never replies
at least not in the civil tongue

I particularly like your 'pot pourri of popery'

and will at some future date attempt to claim it as my own.
But since my ears are burning I shall offer a limerick.

There once was a fellow named Pope
who pulled on both ends of a rope
his house thus divided
left his mind undecided
hence astride a sad fault did he cope

[LJ]

touche!

[Nino Baldino]

Pope means father..and only one sit-com ever had a father that was intelligent,kind,faithful,interesting and just plain fun.that was 'father knows best!"..think about it...

[hibernicus]

There was a nineteenth-century Church of England cleric called Ralph Waldo Sibthorp who changed five or six times. (He was I believe celibate and had been ordained as a Catholic priest.) His instability was a combination of a basically gallican position and lingering indecision from his Evangelical upbringning about whether the Pope might not after all be Antichrist.