How often, on average, do you think about the pope?

Only when something else (usually the TV news) brings him up. Never spontaneously on my own.
I’m sure that will change now that the idea is planted that I might “think about” him. Ugh.

^Same here.

Coincidently, I just talked about him last week with someone. I guess I think about him about 4 times a year.

If he’s on the news, which is about three or four times a year, I will. He may be on the news at Christmas, showing him doing a mass, and maybe a few other times a year if he visits somewhere or he’s sick. Other than those three or four times a year, never.

As others have said, when there’s a story in the news.

Perhaps we should turn it around:

How often does the Pope think about me?

^^Or better yet, how often does the pope think about penguins?

I thinking about whomever The Pope is at the time, like @canidmajor said. If he’s brought up.

I think of whomever the actual guy is, never.

I also was just talking about the Pope, with someone. But not the current Pope.
I was talking about whichever Pope, was rumored to have had a child. In other words, a female Pope…

I use the expression “does the Pope, shit in tha woods?” Occasionally.

That usually provokes a brief image, of a Pope pooping, in a wooded area…

Only when they’re in the news, except for when I read about a murderous miscreant titled Gregory IX.

Not only did he institute a Papal Inquisition in the 13th century, he also stated that black cats were instruments of Satan, and needed to be dealt with swiftly, therefore declaring all black cats to be removed and killed.

This subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe. The mass extermination of the continent’s felines is considered an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats, which would otherwise have been hunted by the dead cats.

I think about the pope whenever it pops up on my newsfeed. (Rarely.)

But I think about his hat several times a month—every time I drive by this building

Only when something about him pops up on the news.
Other than that ,uh never.

Pretty much never. Even when there’s a story it’s just a blip in my thoughts.

My thoughts about the pope are similar to finding out an elderly celebrity is still alive when you thought they passed away years ago.

Probably every day, but mostly in fleeting thoughts.

Almost never. We saw round a wonderful little Catholic church yesterday and even there I never thought of the Pope once.

Because of you and this question, you’ve bumped up my average to about once a year.

Waaay less than I think about the Roman empire

I wonder what the impetus for this Q is?

Whenever there is talk of the rampant child abuse in the church.
That is why is unofficial title is “king of the paedos”

Like almost everyone else, I think of him when he’s mentioned in the news.

@Brian1946 FFS is that what started that thing about black cats? Poor babies. I did hear about the plague being started by the killing of cats. I like to imagine he’s surrounded by black cats in hell, snuggling up, rubbing on his legs, sitting on his face in the morning to wake him, and crying loudly for dinner. if I believed in hell

I thought of his bullet proof vehicle recently in light of the DT.

@YARNLADY Do you think there should be a Trumpmobile?

@janbb The perfect fit

^PERFECT

Never. I can honestly say that I don’t know the man’s title. Pope John? Pope Paul? Pope Schlomo?

@ragingloli Great idea!

The pope is on the news today because he’s visiting Belgium.

I realized when I saw it that now, every time I think about the Pope, I’ll think about Fluther haha.