Pope Francis Decrees All Dogs Go To Heaven; Cats Not So Fortunate

Actually, that's not what he said at all.

But you would know that if you didn't get all your news from a satire site.

Besides, heaven is an imaginary place. Its no more real than the Tooth Fairy and no one actually goes there.
 
Having nine lives, cats pretty much have a monopoly on immortality anyway
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Those roadkill cats I keep seeing in my neighborhood must already have been around for eons.
 
Can you ride on a broomstick, to places far distant?
Familiar with candle, with book and with bell.
Were you Whittington's friend, the Pied Piper's assistant?
Have you been an alumnus of heaven and hell?

-- From TS Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", and later in the musical "Cats"
 
Can you ride on a broomstick, to places far distant?
Familiar with candle, with book and with bell.
Were you Whittington's friend, the Pied Piper's assistant?
Have you been an alumnus of heaven and hell?

-- From TS Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", and later in the musical "Cats"

One of my favorite poets.

Interestingly, he wrote those poems for his grand kids. His wife said that one poem was too dark and sad for the kids so he didn't give that one to them. Years later, she allowed Andrew Lloyd Webber to include it in the musical and it became the song "Memory".
 

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