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The Pope dies and goes to his well deserved reward. He asks Peter if there is a record of the previous Popes writings and Peter takes him to a full library of all writings of all Popes. The Pope dives in with great delight.

A few weeks go by and Peter decides to check on the Pope. As he nears the library he hears the Pope yell "There is an R in it!" Peter enters and asks what is going on and the Pope repeats, "There is an r in it!"

Peter says "There is an r in what?" The pope says "Look, there is an r in celibate!"

Nine year old Joey, was asked by his mother what he had learned at Sunday school. "Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely.

Then he used his walkie - talkie to radio headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved."

"Now, Joey, is that really what your teacher taught you?" his mother asked. "Well, no, Mom. But if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!"

A pastor was giving a lesson to a group of children on the 23rd Psalm. He noticed that one of the little boys seemed disquieted by the phrase "Surely, goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life..."

"What's wrong with that, Johnny?" the pastor asked.

"Well," answered Johnny, "I understand about having goodness and mercy, for God is good....

But I'm not sure I'd like Shirley following me around all the time!"