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Okay, I’ve read over what I wrote here and commented elsewhere about the whole pope thing and I can see that I’ve been a tedious bore.  Who cares about the Nazi part really?  And condoms?  Well, I’m always ready for a great water-balloon fight but condoms are over-rated in the long run.  Concerns about liberation theology are so twencen as to be redundant and stupid, so we’re pretty much left with circumstances as depressing as the third quarter of I am Charlotte Simmons with a skosh of the church-state thing thrown in.

Just when I thought there was really nothing left of importance to say about the whole pope thing, I ran across a blog with what I have to guess is really the best thought-out analysis, better by far than any power assessment, spiritual reflection, or any of that stuff… a creative and thoughtful treatment.  Here’s just a little sample.  You’ll want to read the entire post.

Lastly, I think that the pope should be allowed to choose a themesong.  All rights to that song should be

immediately transfered to the pope, and the new duty of cardinals should be to walk behind the pope and

play his popesong on huge pope-speakers.  If the pope ever needs to go into stealth mode, for example to

go on a secret ninja pope mission, the volume of the popesong could be turned down to a quiet whisper. 

But the popesong should always be playing.

Just FYI, I’m voting for Unchained Melody as the best popesong, and the pope could kind of do a stroll/linedance thing with all the
cardinals behind him or her just bopping to the beat of what I think is one of the sweetest and most powerful pop (indeed, pope) songs of all time.  Of course it would be his or her choice.