The Most Provocative Pope Benedict XVI Cartoons

We’ve gotten some crazy and provocative cartoons about Pope Benedict XVI in the last eight years. We have a great new topical collection on the Pope’s resignation called “The Pope is Pooped” – come take a look.

Lots of the craziest Pope cartoons came from Latin American cartoonists. There were lots of cartoons showing the German Pope as a Nazi, showing him as a devil, and showing him doing all kinds of things with condoms. Mexican cartoonist Dario Castillejos saw the Pope as an evil Holocaust denier.

This one by Cuban/Brazilian cartoonist Osmani Simanca depicts Pope Benedict XVI as the devil – a common theme.

Simanca also drew this devil Pope with condoms …

Cartoonists just love the idea of condoms on the Pope’s shoe.  here’s one by Taylor Jones.

There are a lot with the Pope blowing up condom balloons, here by Rainer Hachfeld …

And here by Taylor Jones …

There were dozens of cartoons about the Pope and condoms.  Here’s another one by Bulgarian cartoonist “Christo.”

This Pope and condom cartoon by Dutch cartoonist, Hajo, made me laugh …

French cartoonist, Jiho, drew the Pope with a condom/suicide vest.

Here’s another Simanca/Pope/Condom cartoon …

Swedish cartoonist, Riber Hanssen, drew the Pope bungee jumping with condoms.

When the Pope gave a speech denouncing “comsumer culture” Simanca drew this cartoon about the Pope’s fancy wardrobe, which made me laugh …

There were a lot of cartoons about the Pope’s role covering up the Pedophile Priest Scandals. This one is by also by Riber Hansson.

Here’s another one  by Taylor Jones that impressed me.  Taylor is the cartoonist for El Nuevo Dia on Puerto Rico, who works from Staten Island, NY.

There are loads of cartoons with the Pope being crucified.  This one is by French cartoonist, Frederick Deligne.

That poor Pope. Here the poor Pope is crucified by Islam, and Mexican cartoonist Nerilicon.

Here the Pope suffers from Islam by Cuban/Mexican cartoonist Angel Boligan – this has gotta hurt.

Mr Fish brought his potty-mouth to his depiction of the Pope.

I think Simanca had the biggest bug in his ear for the Pope. Here’s Simanca’s Pope shark.

Simanca’s Nazi Pope …

I’ll add this one by Pat Bagley, because it made me laugh.

I drew one that was a compilation cartoon of all the Pope Yahtzees.