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Pope joke!
On a tour of Alaska, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains for some sight seeing.
He was cruising along the campground in the Pope-mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, and a "Save the Whales" T-shirt was struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the jaws of a 10 foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a .44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding semiconscious Democrat from the bear. Then using long clubs, the three loggers beat the bear to death and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a bitter hatred between loggers and environmental activists, but now I've seen with my own eyes that that is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was that guy ?"
"It was the Pope," another replied, "he's in direct contact with God and has access to all God's wisdom."
"Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all God's wisdom, but he sure doesn't know anything about bear hunting..... By the way, is the bait holding up okay or do we need to go back to town and grab another one?"
There might be openings for papal catatores (sp?) in Vatican now.
I wonder if papal cats behave better than the rest of them. Can you imagine kitties in the papal apartment hacking hairballs or urinating on/scratching up priceless artifacts?
My cat just needs to be confessed. Badly. And, we're not even Catholic.
PS: I MUST HAVE one of those cat-Cardinal hats!!! But the part about Pope Paul having dressed his cat in Cardinal's robes and a Cardinal hat!? He didn't get out enough, obviously.
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Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is a cat-lover, too. Here, he's shown with his feline Gabriel, who is named after the angel.
Sweet story. I knew I liked this pope!
BTW this story first hit the wires back in April. In German town, Benedict XVI known for love of cats, conversation
...but Chico will never be nuetered....
I love this Pope! I hate cats!
True. Great Story.
Papal kitty ping!
