Papal Ponderer Gifts

Pope Francis

Pope Benedict XVI

'I recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me...so I'm stepping down.'

The Pope's bags getting carried by an angel.

"The Pope said nope!"

In/Out/These Things Happen.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Chiller Theatre

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

A man deflates and dissolves into the ground and becomes a flower.

'He's the best sheepdog I ever had.'

"Mrs. Marsha Mullhouse, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, asks, "Are You subject to the laws of physics, or are the laws of physics subject to You?"

Admissions test for the Danbury Institute of Philosophy

"Is this who I am?"

"I cross the road to forget."

Non Thought For The Day.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'Dad, what is peace?'

"If we evolved from stupid people, why are there stupid people still around?"

"Behold! I am God! I know all. Yet I'm constantly testing you even though I already know what you'll do. But I'll still punish you for the sins I planned for you to do. And you'll suffer in a fiery pit, tormented beyond imagining forever and ever and ever

'Please take your receipt!'

"Remember that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

"Don’t think of that tennis ball as lost. Think of it as finally free."

'Now, until you've attained perfect wisdom, you'll have to learn to evade questions.'

"If there is a heaven, why do we end up as fossil fuel?"

The Vatican's undercover mission to Antarctica, and some endangered penguins.

'I believe there's an unseen hand behind everything we do.'

'Are you sure we should do all this praying on Sunday? -- I thought it was God's day off.'

How did life begin? Image shows a strand of dna in the form of a question mark (with a single cell as the dot, floating in water or primeval soup). The image also refers to life beyond the earth, with the cell-like blobs resembling galaxies in outer space

"Never mind 'what does it all mean?' What does anything mean?"

Understanding art.

"I'd let you in, but I'm not sure I'm all here today"

'It's not so much you having a cockroach problem - it's more along the lines of us having a human problem.'

'Just one God? - But won't he be outnumbered?'