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Friday, February 22, 2013

Cartoons: the Pope has left the room

Don't know about you, but I was surprised to hear that Pope Benedict XVI resigned.  For a possibly biased report on why, take a look at Michael D'Antonio's article "Immunity for Rome's Rottweiler: Why The Pope Resigned" at Huffington Post.  An interesting news tidbit is this article -- "German cartoon predicted Pope’s resignation" from The [London] Times (aka Times Newspapers Limited).

Editorial cartoonists the world over had a take on this topic.  See some of the mostly American output below.

This first one is by Nick Anderson and was found at Time Magazine's Cartoons of the Week:

image: cartoon by Nick Anderson about Pope Benedict resigning

From U.S News & World Report gallery on the Catholic Contraception Controversy there's this one by Chan Lowe:

image: cartoon by Chan Lowe about religious liberty

Three are from the San Jose Mercury News' cartoon slideshow titled "Pope Benedict resigns."  The first is one by Cameron Cardow:

image: cartoon by Cameron Cardow about retired Pope as Walmart greeter

Next is one by Rick McKee:

image: cartoon by Rick McKee, "I'm Retired"

And lastly, here's one done by David Fitzsimmons:

image: cartoon by David Fitzsimmons, "We Are Not Amused"

Pax vobiscum.

-- Marge

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