Now That’s What I Call A Dead ParrotPope
No, no sir, it’s not dead. It’s resting. Cue strains of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer…
To determine whether a pope is dead, the Vatican master of ceremonies smacks him on the forehead with a silver hammer and calls out his birth name to make sure he isn’t sleeping.That was done for certain at the death of Leo XIII in 1903, and church historians think it may have been used for John XXIII in 1963.