LA PAPESSE

71

78

79

6470

7379

70

68

69

69

7163

77

76

72

77

FACING CRITICISM FOR VATICAN LEAKS

PROGRESSIVEMODERATE

ULTRA-CONSERVATIVECONSERVATIVE

OUTLOOK ODDS 0% 100%#=AGE

THE COVER-UP CARDINALS

WEIRD POPEY SHIT

PAPABILE

TO PREVENT DISEASE

CONTRACEPTION

NEVER

Data, where available, from The Guardian Datablog Pontifficator 2013; SNAP’S ‘dirty Dozen’, The Telegraph, March 2013; Paddy Power Pope Betting; oddschecker.com

Source: bibliotecapleyades.net, UKTV

SEDIA STERCORARIA

CADAVER TRIAL

PAPAL SHROOMS

There used to use what can only be called a 'ball-fondling chair' with a special hole in it to verify that the pope is actually male. It's in the Vatican museum but they don't like to say what it's for.

Pope Urban had the shortest ever reign. I imagine him dressed like Run DMC.

Hundreds of years ago they put a pope's cadaver on trial for being a bad pope. They actually exhumed the pope!

16th Century Pope Clement VII was so fond of mushrooms that he made it illegal for anyone else to eat those growing in the Papal States, so that there would never be a shortage for his own table. He died in 1534 from eating a poisonous mushroom.

In 2005 they raised the floor of the Sistine chapel to install 'internet jamming equipment' (what a technical term) so that crazy tech savvy cardinals couldn't leak any info via text or Twitter.

Supposedly there was a female pope called Joan. Everyone thought she was John until she gave birth in the middle of a procession. (Guess that's why the chair was invented.)

POPE URBAN