[great joke temporarily moved to original post for space]
[...]
 > The service began, and the vicar started to preach
 > his sermon. He launched into his text and, when 12
 > o'clock came, he was still going strong, with no end in
 > sight.
 >  
 > Suddenly a bell rang, and a trap door in the floor
 > behind the pulpit dropped open.

 > "Wonderful!" said the congregation, "Marvelous!"

The Vicar & fellow Irish Protestant decided to watch the house they'd heard
rumours was a "House of Ill Repute"; they settled in across the way, behind
some shrubbery.

Presently, a member of the local Catholic congregation furtively went into 
the front door.

Both men of the cloth agreed to pray for his poor soul.

Later another Catholic went in & they agreed, robustly, that there was a sin
deep in Catholic church, & prayed that his time in Hell wouldn't be for too
long.

Before anon, one of their own group went in.  The second clergyman spoke up,
"How nice, Gerald's gone in to convert the poor lasses."

Your friend,

<+]:{)}
Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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