Pope Benedict XVI

From The Room: Jesus On The Cross-Over Marketing

May 14, 2008 - Important news today from the Vatican's chief astronomer (raise your hand if you knew the Vatican had a chief astronomer): Aliens are most probably, could be sort of true! "How can we rule out that life may have developed...

Vatican absolves Catholic crackpots

May 15, 2008 - The Vatican's Chief Astronomer (the Vatican has a Chief Astronomer?) said Tuesday that a belief in extra-terrestrial life does not conflict with a belief in God. In an interview titled "The Extraterrestrial Is My...

Dickipedia: Pope Benedict XVI

April 21, 2008 - Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927) is the 265th and reigning Pope, the Bishop of Rome, the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, and a dick...

From The Room: Passover Diss No Big Deal

April 21, 2008 - Looks like sex abuse victims aren't the only people who have issues with the Pope. S...

The Pope at the U.N.: hello, is this thing on?

April 21, 2008 - Pope Benedict XVI, the spiritual head of the Catholic Church, improbably skipped the "Sex and the City" tour Friday morning in New York, opting to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly instead (dumb). His Holi...

From The Room: The Problem with Papal Bull

April 17, 2008 - For those of you who don't know, Pope Benedict XVI is in America. Anyone who has been following his holiness' visit, as well as his Coulter-esque penchant for cultural insensitivity and (if we're to give him the benefit of the doubt reserved for those lucky few who...

Pope Benedict XVI's demands uncovered

April 21, 2008 - Giving a mass for 57,000 people in New York City can sure take its toll on one German pontiff. As Pope Benedict XVI recovers from his Sunday mass at New York's Yankee Stadium, we here at...

From The Feed: Brit Hume's ho chats up a priest

April 16, 2008 - Disturbingly attractive Megyn Kelly and an alarmingly hot priest talk pedophilia on "America's Newsroom...

From The Room: The Pope's Reactions to American Things

April 16, 2008 - Buffets: "I don't get this" NASCAR: "I don't get this" Competitive Eating: "I don't get this" Bow Hunting: "I don't get this" Jordin Sparks concert: "I don't get this" Gatorade G2 Low-Calorie-Nightlife...

From The Room: Nothing Says Happy Birthday Like Pedophilia

April 15, 2008 - Whatever happened to a birthday cake, new socks and a grandchild singing Happy Birthday into the phone? For his 81st birthday, poor Pope Benedict gets to fly all the way over to the U.S., make small talk with George Bush on the drive back from the airport (luckily this...

From The Feed: The Pope's understudy comes to America (video)

April 15, 2008 - "Fox and Friends" reports on the dry run made by the Secret Service in preparation for the papal visit...

Mischievous Pope coverage, part 2

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TIME's headline writers are snickering

April 14, 2008 - The Pope's damage-control tour of the U.S. is now apparently a disturbing reality show competition: Kate Clinton - P.B.T.S.D. - Huff Post...

Pope Benedict XVI's travel guide: a XXIII/VI exclusive

April 11, 2008 - Pope Benedict XVI is coming to the U.S.—arriving in Washington, D.C., on April 15 and finally hitting the...

Catholics have their asses handed to them by upstart Muslims

March 31, 2008 - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the largest religious denomination in the world. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, a Vatican statistician, reports that Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent. For the first time in history we are no longer a...