Sunday, February 24, 2013

It's Sunday

I was wondering how old a person has to be (on average) before the Pope of the day predeceases him. And then I wondered how many popes have already come and gone in my lifetime. Not being Catholic, it stands to reason I might not remember them all, but I was going to guess three. In fact, it's been six! I found that out by looking up the list of popes, which provided me this fun information: the third pope was named Pope Cletus. How fun is that? And the 46th pope was Pope Hilarius. Hilarity reigned, no doubt.   There were no succeeding popes of those names, so, no Pope Cletus VI or Hilarity XXIII.  And, of course, there was no mention of Pope Joan.

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