Who will be the next Pope? Here's a rather snarky cartoon asking the tough questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V90-fpHCgJw&feature=share

Someone left this link in a comment on my blog.

I vote for pope on a rope

http://soaponarope.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=noveltysoap&Product_Code=7080&Category_Code

That's pretty funny!

To all Cardinals wishing to be Pope. Please tick the appropriate box and submit your form to the big blue-eyed boy sitting by the stove pipe:

1. Do you have experience of the man-management of junior priests?

2. Do you look like a lizard or any other amphibian?

3. Do you have an unpronouncable name?

4. Are you from Africa or South America?

5. Do you have committee experience of issuing private edicts to Bishops threatening eternal damnation for making public any claim of sexual abuse?

6. Do you consider condomns to be the most wicked spawn of the devil and probably the cause of the AIDS epidemic?

7. Do you mind being poisoned in three years time if this conclave considers you a liability?

8. Will you continue the tradition of issuing secret payments to Cardinals from the Vatican Bank?

9. Can you handle a bevy of choir boys in your sleep?

10. Will you give succour to any vulnerable nun seeking your private sanctuary?

Please note: membership of any Masonic lodge or any diagnosis of sociopathy will not necessarily exclude you from this post.

The Vatican is not an equal opportunities employer.