My suggestion-
'Bee-vee-ex-eye-
You're-our-guy!'
Funny, but I think the pope has been hit by the male equivalent of the babushka bomb.
Our Pastor, who is also from Germany, joked at Mass this morning that now German will be the official language of our Parish.
Isn't it interesting that within 24 hours of having a "staunch conservative, doctrinaire, inquisitor" as Pope, we who love him are coming up with so many lovingly funny descriptors for him?
He is said to have a great sense of humour and it looks like he has already inspired us to follow suit. May God bless him and may he give us he Faith and strength we need to support him too.
How 'bout:
"Papa Ben, you're our friend"
It probably doesn't rhyme in German though.
This is in lieu of him actually taking the name George Ringo I? [I can't take credit for the joke.]
How about "BEN-E-DICT, You're so STRICT"
Actually I find the picture of our new Holy Father that is emerging to be a lot like Jesus. Kind, gentle, and humble, Benedict is a great teacher.
But mess with or distort sacred things and he'll whip your butt right out of the temple.
One comment over here in Catholic Studies was to wait until His Holiness shows up at WYD this summer, and see what the German youth have come up with -- wahrscheinlich ganz gut stuff! 
This is what my local Archbishop had to say.
http://www.archdiocese-of-liverp...co.uk/
index.htm
Mark Shea is a genious. Finish that book!!!!! We need more of this!!!!!!!!
Pope B16 - Our German Shepherd!!
Don't make me come up there, young man. 
Pope Benny!
We love thee!
Why not "The Popenator...?!"
I feel really bad but, I keep wanting him to go Harvey Korman from Blazing Saddles:
"What's this? Chewing Gum, eh. I hope you brought enough for everybody."
"Happy birthday, sweet XVI"
Benedict, Benedict, he's our guy -
Benedict, Benedict, EX VEE EYE!
I like the chant that the crowd in and around St. Peter's sent up; it made him sound like a footie star:
"Be-ne-dic-to!"
"B-16 is peachy-keen!"
"B16, the Rome Bomber!"
Eggs Benedict will now be mandatory for parish suppers.
Papa Ratzi has a certain ring to it.
Papa Ratzy or Papa Ratzo, nice and hilarious.
Benedict! Benedict!
Use that Papal interdict!
päpste poppen mit präser
I'm sticking with "Mo' Joe working."
B16, Don't be mean
You're a genius, Mark!!
I rather like some of these other slogans and chants too!
I'm gonna pinch (and use)'em.
B16 Bingo
I like the B16 Rome bomber . There is a definite ring to it.
I like the use of that song:
"you're 16, you're beautiful and you're mine."
Being of German descent (on my father's mother's side of the family), I feel a certain amount of pride that the new Bishop of Rome comes from such a background.
Hello Maggie,
Rumor has it that B-16 bombers carry weapons of mass orthodoxy.
How about a good Latin slogan? While the following does not have a pop beat, it certainly beats the ages.
BENEDICTUS QUI VENIT IN NOMINE DOMINI.
For those of you who need to know what that means in English:
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
It can also be accurately rendered as:
"Benedict who comes in the name of the Lord."
Yes, I am a BENEDICTINE monk. Yes, I am prejudiced in favor of the new pope's name and person. However, anyone who looks both ways before he crosses the street is prejudiced against drivers. If you'd rather not be prejudiced, stay indoors so the real world won't kill you!
I'm too XV
I'm too XV
I'm too XV for my I
I wave the monstrance on the footpace,
On the footpace...
"Come back, heretic!
Go with Benedict!"
The news media are reporting regularly that crowds are simply chanting the pope's name in Italian, "Be- ne- DET- to, Be- ne- DET- to!" Well, here's a rhythmic slogan that rhymes in Italian.
"Be- ne- DET- to,
ti ri- SPET- to."
(English meaning: "Benedict, I respect you.")
I apologize in advance that this goes beyond slogan and gets into musical parody, but I forwarded the "You're XVI, you're beautiful, and you're mine" to a pianist friend who plays regularly in my neck of the woods and occasionally comes up with parodies just for the amusement of our jovial little piano-bar circle. He was so taken with my enthusiasm over our new pope that he lovingly came up with the following. He was afraid the line about infallible might come off as offensive, so if anyone can come up with a better version, I'm sure it would be welcome, and our whole crowd will affectionately gang-sing it at our next public gathering. (Talk about bringing religion into the public square!)
I'm Benny the Sixteenth I am,
Benny the 16th I am, I am.
I came over from the country next door.
You've never seen a German pope before.
And now they say I'm infallible (infallible!) And if it isn't so, well, I'll be damned (so damned).
I'm the 16th pope named Benedict.
Benny the 16th I am, I am. Benny the 16th I am.
B-E-N-N-Y. Benedict (Benedict!) Benedict (Benedict!) Benny the 16th I am.
P.S. -- We KNOW "Benny the 16th" doesn't exactly come tripping off the tongue and "Benedict the XII" would have been much better, but he was a coupla centuries too late for that.
Apparently the Germans have come up with a rhyming slogan for the Pope:
"Benedikt, Gott Geschickt!"
meaning "Benedict, sent from God"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
art...1585329,00.html
We could do a variant in English:
"Benedict, God has picked!"
BTW, a problem with the "B-16 bomber" analogy is that the B-16 program, designed by Martin aircraft (later Lockheed Martin), was only in the design stage and was never built. The next model to come along, Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress, was one of the planes that won the Second World War.
Adverting to a "Lydia Pinkham"/Wizard of Id parody popular in the SCA, I can not refrain from noting that...
They think, they think, they think
The Pope is a fink, a fink, a fink,
A figure o-o-of infallibility.
He rules the faithful
With Romanitas Compound,
And the results are plain to see.
For a popular culture reference:
Follow the tall whitehaired man with two red shoes..
No, it lacks the *hwyl*
Haha! Didn't GKC say that a decent religion could be spotted by a decent sense of humour?
PAX
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Well, I kind of like "Papa Bene".
But I am also inclined towards something more hep. Seeing as how the image of the loving German Shepherd caring for his faithful cats appeals to me, I suggest that we all just meow.
Ben-e-dict he really rocks!,
German, focused, and orthodox!
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