Two Offensive Pope Cartoons

The first one is so moronic it need not be addressed — Dark Pope. The second one, by a cartoonist who got his start in the paper I used to deliver, is more dangerous — Papal Blunder. "Pope's don;t say, 'I screw up,'" says the caricature, holding a pint-sized "Holocaust-denying bishop" in his lap, but that is essentially what His Holiness did — Pope Didn't Know Shoah Views of Lefebvrite Bishop.

"That's a fallibility," chides the cartoonist from the corner. No it is not, if one is referring to Papal Infallibility, which only applies "when he speaks ex cathedra -- that is, when in the exercise of his office as pastor and teacher of all Christians he defines, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the whole Church."