Do you remember your senior superlatives? Half the fun was finding out who would get voted “Best dressed” or “Most likely to skip class.” It’s fun to look back at the various “awards” and remember those heady days of high school.
In that vein, I though it would be fun to look at a few of Catholicism’s Senior Superlative Awards!
Most likely to be a papabile:
Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle
Most dramatic:
Mark Wahlberg
Best dressed:
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
Most likely to remain in their diocese:
Msgr. Vincent Topper, 104, at the 80th anniversary of his ordination for the Diocese of Harrisburg, PA in 2016.
Best eyes:
St. Lucy
Best communicator:
St. Paul
Least likely to be a papabile:
Joe Biden
Best looking parish church:
Basilica of St. Josephat in Milwaukee, WI.
Best looking:
Mary of Nazareth, a.k.a. Theotokos, a.k.a Mother of God
Most likely to skip Mass:
Martin Luther, former Augustinian monk and Catholic
Best confessor:
Tie: St. Padre Pio and St. Jean Marie Vianney
Most traveled:
Pope St. John Paul the Great
Pope’s pet:
Sean Patrick Cardinal O’Malley
Best car:
Popemobile (Pope Francis)
Diocesan clown:
Jim Gaffigan
Biggest partier:
Pope Alexander VI
