Who’s your Pope?

I know there is at least one German-speaking Catholic reader of this blog and was originally just going to post for his benefit a link here which goes to a pisstake of Bild Zeitung’s headline on the election of Pope Benedict, which was Wir sind Papst or “We are Pope”. But the story got better.

A German satirical blog invited readers to illustrate this news with photoshop, and hundreds obliged, sending in pictures of themselves as Holy Father. After a while, Bild itself picked this up and ran a story about the new craze — illustrated, of course, with a pretty and female Pope. But they didn’t ask her permission, and now she is suing them …

Sometimes people ask why on earth I use OpenOffice. Well, it’s because the developers point to stories like this on their blogs.

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