The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Pope Leo X Edition)

Leo X Rejoices (circa March 11, 1513) –> slide 2

• It has served us well, this myth of Christ.
• God has given us the papacy
• Let us enjoy it
• That means party like it’s 1599!

Secretary intimus of Leo X presents a short list of things required for next Papal parade (circa 1514)
–> slide 5

• 24 tuns of wine
• 12 panthers
• 3 jesters
• plus, Hanno, the white elephant.

Alfonso Petrucci presents “The Pope must die” (circa 1517) –> slide 6

• Spends too much money on himself
• Always drunk
• This “St. Peter’s Basilica” project is also very expensive
• Not to mention the 6,000 ducats he gave in alms last year.

Leo X presents “What to do with a problem like Petrucci?” –> slide 2

• Follow his co-conspirators
• Wouldn’t it be terrible if they all caught fatal “food poisoning”?
• Oh, and let’s strangle Alfonso.

Leo X presents Bull! (circa 1520) –> slide 1

• Exsurge Domine
• Luther must retract 41 of 95 theses
• Or be excommunicated
• (Christians must be taught to cherish excommunications rather than to fear them.)

Leo X presents “It’s good to be Pope” (circa 1521) –> slide 7

• So what if Luther burned my Bull?
• We’ll burn heretics like him.
• Can someone do something about all these mosquitoes?

Alltop and humor-blogs.com like funny hats too. Pope Leo X, b. December 11, 1475, d. December 1, 1521 (of malaria). x Originally published, Dec. 2006.