>>>Pope needed. Must be a Cardinal. This is a one of a kind job and it is yours for life if you so choose. Benefits: cool hat, cool shoes. Best of all, you get to ride in the Popemobile as often as you want. This job will go fast so apply soon.
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>>>PS -- As is so often the case, The Onion nailed it --
http://www.theonion.com/articles/resigning-pope-no-longer-has-strength-to-lead-chur,31248/>>
>>I understand that being a cardinal is not technically a requirement. In theory, any male catholic can be elected, although in practice it is usually cardinals that become popes.
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>Hrm... it would be amusing if there was a Cardinal with the last name Sin... (I knew someone back in university -- a person of Korean ancestry who had the last name Sin -- that often joked about how it would be amusing if he became a clergyman)
From your lips to God's ears :-) Remember at the time (during the Marcos bouhaha) when every time his name would come on the news I'd crack up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin
Charles Hankey
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