New Pope Elected!

Yes my fellow Catholics, Behold! I have decided to elect myself as your new Pope. Kneel before me and kiss my ring, bitches!

Really though, could I do much worse? I mean, look at some of my predecessors:

In 955 A.D., John XII became Pope at the tender age of 18.  He was a known fornicator, having an affair with his father’s concubine, as well as many others.  It is said that he had “made the sacred palace into a whorehouse.”  In addition to his sexual appetites, he was something of a sadist, blinding his confessor, castrating the subdeacon, and setting random fires.  Many people swore that he had toasted the devil on many occasions, and that when gambling (a Pope no-no, BTW) he invoked the “demons” Jupiter and Venus.  Reportedly, he died in bed with a married woman, suffering a stroke in his late twenties.

Then there's Benedict IX in the early 11th century. He was known to hold orgies in the Lateran palace, and he was accused of rape, murder, and torture.  So, because of that, he was forced out of Rome in 1036 but came back, but he was pushed out again and un-Poped in favor of Pope Sylvester III.  Benedict IX retaliated in April of 1045 and took back the title.  In May of the same year, however, he decided he wanted to get married, so he sold his office to his godfather, who became Pope Gregory VI.

Born Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia in 1431, Pope Alexander VI was so scandalous that his last name became a word that embodied the state of the Papacy at his time.  The state, by the way, was not one the church looked favorably upon.  At first it seemed like Alexander was going to do OK.  Then, he started floating money to his family members that he took from his neighbors.  He fathered as many as five children with his mistress, a courtesan named Vannozza dei Cattani who, in point of fact, was married to someone else.  Rome went to hell in a handbasket, teeming with criminals, prostitutes, and the like.  Alexander didn’t even try to condemn this behavior.  He arranged lavish dances and plays and made Italy vulnerable to invasion with his lack of attention to his duties.  Oh yeah, and he reportedly fathered a son with one of his daughters.  What?

In the mid-20th century, Pope Pius XII, though he was aware of the Nazi’s systematic transportation of and murder of Jews from all over Europe, refused to publicly denounce the Nazis.  It was his responsibility to say the church was against the systematic murdering of over half the Jews in the world, dontcha think?

As far as Benedict XVI, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican section that tries and defrocks (or proves the innocence of) priests accused of crimes, ignored a massive number of allegations against priests regarding sexual abuse.  Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) was the head of that office from 1981 to 2005, when he became Pope. This was the very period of time in all the Church's history when child sexual abuse cases were so prominent. Coininkeedink? Well, doesn't he look like a child molester himself? Why else would he resign but utter shame. I bet this fucker'll kill himself soon. Watch, you'll see...