Secretary: Don, that nut who claims to be the Pope is on one!
PopeWatch: Holiness.
Pope Francis: (A rather weak voice.) Gringo. (Pause for breath.) Your gringo escritor Mark Twain said it bueno: (Long pause for breath.) (Much stronger voice.) The rumores of mi muerte have been enormemente exagerado!.
And with that the phone call ended.
We had the cadaver synod. Maybe we’re going to see the cadaver papacy. We’ve already experienced the game plan as the past administration demonstrates. It is not hard for those behind a dead leader to continue to rule in his name.
To the point of “Lead Kindly Light,” Professor John Gill, Der Fuhrer in Patterns of Force. Democrats did it with Joe Biden. The Vatican will do it with Jorge Mario Bergoglio.