Just kidding, it's not a Protestant spider, that's silly. This is what I think is really going on here. Underneath the Popes white robe and inside his red Prada loafers are hundreds of thousands of spiders and their eggs, and every time a priest buggers a little altar boy an egg hatches into a spider. Now that so many little boys have been buggered by priests all over the world for so long all of the eggs have hatched into spiders and this spider is actually a result of "priest-spider bugger overflow". That's my theory and it's just as plausible as the virgin birth story that this gruesome elderly virgin clings to.
The Pope is actually in the Prague for three days to try to reclaim the Czech Republic from it's mostly skeptical and atheist citizens.
PRAGUE — As Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the Czech Republic on Saturday on a three-day pilgrimage aimed at battling against the forces of secularism, religious leaders warned that he faced a daunting challenge in a nation of mostly natural-born skeptics.When the pope comes to town, a city usually pulls out all the stops. Not so here in the Czech capital, where banners heralding the pope’s visit and large crowds were conspicuously absent. The local newspapers that highlighted the trip seemed more preoccupied with the pope’s penchant for bright red loafers than with the substance of his religious mission.“If the pope wants to create a religious revival in Europe, there is no worse place he could come to than the Czech Republic, where no one believes in anything,” said Jaroslav Plesl, a self-confessed lapsed Catholic who is deputy editor of Lidove Noviny, a leading daily newspaper here. “Add to that the fact that the pope is German and socially conservative and he might as well be an alien here.”Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, the pope is visiting what many religious observers, unfairly or not, consider the ground zero of religious apathy in Europe. Vatican officials said that he had chosen the Czech Republic for a mission central to his papacy: fomenting a continentwide spiritual revolt against what Benedict labeled Saturday as “atheistideology,” “hedonistic consumerism” and “a growing drift toward ethical and cultural relativism.”“A majority of people have no interest in the pope’s visit and are more concerned about traffic congestion,” Rev. Tomas Halik said.Father Halik argued that Benedict’s fierce intelligence and moral resolve made him a worthy opponent of pervasive secularism. But he was philosophical about the chances of his success. “The reanimation of the Catholic Church is a long-term goal,” he said. “And even the pope can’t work miracles that quickly.”
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