If I were pope.(Church) From: Catholic New Times | Date: November 2, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Catholic New Times, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

If I were elected pope, I would throw a six month party-seminar at the Vatican. We would slip off out shoes, unloosen our collars and roll-up out sleeves, bring in musicians, poets and other writers, artists of all sorts and, of course, dancers. We would eat and drink well.(Chesterton's sense of Catholicism: laughter and good red wine, benedicamus domino (Praise the Lord). Enough of sack cloth and ashes; our theme: nil humanum a me alienum. (Nothing human is foreign to me)

We would invite artists and dignitaries to join an early morning papal jog (or brisk walk) down the Via ...

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