Driving home from soccer practice yesterday. The news is on the radio -- the Pope dominates (as he does). Freddie (14) muses, "When he was young, do you think the Pope wanted to grow up to be the Pope? Like, he aspired to be the Pope?"
I thought for a bit. "I don't know about the current guy. I do think the last one, John Paul II, did want to be Pope when he was pretty young."
"So do you think that when he was a kid, he'd be outside in the back yard, like, pretending to be Pope? Blessing stuff? Waving to imaginary crowds?"
The ensuing mental picture was worthy of a chuckle...
5 comments:
Hey, what's so funny? Catholic kids actually do this.
I remember practising Holy Communion for months before the "big day" with chunks of white sliced pan...:-)
Regards,
djp
I don't know about when he was a kid, but I'm pretty sure this Pope was lobbying for the job back when I was a kid.
Buggerin' imaginary altarboys.
Tellin' imaginary crowds of African malnurished zillions how wrong birth control is.
&*%% the Pope. He's still a Brownshirt near as I can tell.
yeah, this one was probably out back vivisecting bunnies when he was fourteen
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