HolyManEtiquetteFilter: If the Dalai Lama and the Pope are in the same room, how do you address them plurally? [more inside]
posted by l33tpolicywonk on Oct 4, 2007 - 23 answers

What does the Pope get paid? [more inside]
posted by elquien on Jun 30, 2005 - 16 answers

I used to live in Montreal, and heard somewhere that on certain nights the cross on top of the mountain would flash various colours (I never saw this happen myself). Rumour had it that this was for bulb-testing purposes, and that the city lit up the cross with different colours when certain rare and important events took place. Supposedly, one of these events was the death of a pope, which was purported to merit a purple cross. Is the cross purple right now? Is it really outfitted with various coloured bulbs, or is this all wild hearsay? Maybe someone was just pulling my leg. [more inside]
posted by painquale on Apr 6, 2005 - 8 answers

Does the deification of a religious authority (such as the pope or in Hasidism, the rebbe) take away from the message of the religion itself? [more inside]
posted by turbanhead on Apr 4, 2005 - 18 answers