Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So, he's 76 and has one lung. I don't see how he can make it through Pope training camp.
Better than being younger and having no balls. You must know what I mean.
No eunuchs at papal training camp, duh. They have an actual genital grab test to be sure that the pope is an intact male:
any candidate for the pope undergoes an intimate examination to ensure he is not a woman (or eunuch) in disguise. This involved sitting on a chair which has a hole in the seat. The most junior deacon present then feels under the chair to ensure the new Pope is male.
"And in order to demonstrate his worthiness, his testicles are felt by the junior present as testimony of his male sex. When this is found to be so, the person who feels them shouts out in a loud voice testiculos habet ("He has testicles") And all the clerics reply Deo Gratias ("Thanks be to God"). Then they proceed joyfully to the consecration of the pope-elect" - Felix Hamerlin, De nobilitate et Rusticate Dialogus (ca. 1490), quoted in The Female Pope, by Rosemary & Darroll Pardoe (1988).
lol catholics.