Further to my apples and oranges post, there’s comparing popes and there’s comparing popes.

There’s no shortage of social media memes doing the rounds right now, which compare popes through a hermeneutic of continuity. This sort of comparison, I think, is faithful to the Catholic view that each pope is successor to St Peter — as opposed to each pope being their predecessor’s replacement.

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And then there are memes which don’t really provide any lesson, but which are funny enough that people repost them again and again.

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