Investigators are today pouring over the Vatican attempting to locate Pope Francis and approximately three quarters of the clerics who either work in the Vatican or who were visiting there. Italian police were summoned to the Vatican in the early morning hours of March 17, 2017 by Cardinal Sarah who reported that he was reading his breviary when he suddenly heard Irish music, smelled the odor of corned beef and cabbage and heard what sounded like someone yelling in a deep voice Et serpentium! When he left his apartment to check he quickly realized that something was amiss due to the immense quiet and what the Cardinal described as a sense of sacred tranquility that had suddenly descended upon the Vatican.
Police have found no items stolen and nothing out of place, except an abundance of shamrocks and the missing clergy. People with information as to the vanished clergy are urged to contact Interpol. It is rumored that members of the Irish Republican Army are being questioned.
If only this were true.
*sigh*
Slainte!
Please, Dear Lord Jesus Christ, make it so and have mercy on us sinners. Deliver us from these reprobate and heretical men masked in lcerical garments who are our due punishment for our sinfulness. Forgive us, Dear Lord. We repent.
clerical not lcerical – darn!
Clinton-Read my story Medcy, all three parts, on this site. Guy McClung, Texas
darn-Mercy, not merdcy