The pope dies, you get another pope.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
He spoke like a professor and forgot that he had since become Pope.
I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.
It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
