If I Were Pope

After attending Mass in the Ukraine, I was asked what I would do if I were the pope. Here’s what I would implement: 1) Silly-Hat Sunday (every first Sunday of the month), when the sermons must be clever, funny, positive, and fun; 2) Free-Fish Friday (for all making below subsistence level); 3) Marriage allowance for all priests and nuns to marry if they choose; and 4) The leasing of all relics and works of art (which are not on display) to fund the fish fry. (We'd lease for the life of the lessee–to the highest bidder, plus insurance.)

I was promptly told I would never be pope. Dang.

Loren M. Lambert © March 23, 2013