The cartoon that sums up my feeling about the new Pope

[Stryguy]

My God forgive us to having this man be our pope.
From a somewhat practicing 30 year old Catholic.

[spooked911]

1. Not obvious to me-- I assume the joke is that the sheep are goosestepping?

If so, that's pretty good.

[uppityperson]

2. You got it.

bahhhhhhhhhhhh

[vpigrad]

3. The only thing that could make it better...

is him in his Hitler Youth uniform with the silly hat.

[quiet.american]

4. I wonder if people really knew what they were cheering for....

...when his appointment was announced. I would wager most of them knew absolutely nothing about him, still don't, and are not even curious, so the "sheeple" image is probably a very appropriate one.

[Stryguy]

5. Exactly..

I have two somewhat practicing Catholic friends here at work and when I mentioned to them that he was a hitler youth they thought I was lying.

It took showing them credible news sources to prove to them that he was infact a hitler youth.

Then it took me another hour to prove to them that he assisted in the priest rape coverup.

[quiet.american]

6. Kudos to you for shining the light on him for them to see n/t