The Archdiocese of Washington is making a stink about a low-budget Metro commercial that featured a bobblehead version of the holy father, saying that area Catholics might find it offensive. I don’t get it — it’s not like Catholics have no experience with popes that are constantly shaking.
BA-DUMP
This hereby concludes this edition of “Offensive Jokes That I Reluctantly Took Out of the Morning Roundup”.
Ha, wow. Yeah, you made the right call.
This reminds me of my days as an editor at the Dec. I had a long-standing worry that we’d make a papal smear in an issue, and in the ensuing day between production and print/delivery, his Holiness would pass on. Luckily, we avoided this faux pas.