Poper Mario Popecial: A New Popic about the Pope

I'm going to tell you guys the same thing I told everyone else.

Here's a thing I guy I met some times wrote:
http://thejesuitpost.org/site/2013/03/whats-so-weird-about-a-jesuit-pope/

Otherwise seems like a pope alright.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

I like how priest shortages are presented in the news as, well, news, and yet apparently the church had them in 1540.

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Wait huh? Are you saying the Society of Jesus was founded to address a priest shortage, or something entirely different?

'Cause I would say that premodern/early modern "priest shortages" were of a different character than the one they're on about now because it was more a limit of geography and the capacity for travel--like in a lot of areas there wasn't necessarily a mass every week, certainly not every day, but there also weren't necessarily churches everywhere. But anyway was there a particular crisis in 1540? I'm hella ignorant of the post 1100s.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

Oh Matt Spotts says that. Yeah I have no idea what that's about. Maybe it's a *Catholic* priest shortage due to the Reformation? I am honestly not an authority and now wish I hadn't said anything at all on the subject.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

[Edit: I wrote this before I saw the post above.]

I was just referring to this passage in the article:

By the time Ignatius of Loyola and his college friends founded the Jesuits in 1540, everybody agreed that the Catholic Church had serious problems that required "reformation." Corruption, inefficiency, scandal, spiritual malaise, and priest shortages all contributed to a shared sense that something needed fixing.

I don't know anything more than that.

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Hm. Yeah, that kinda looks like a dodge to avoid paying service to the valid intellectual undercurrents of the protestant reformation. Which is pretty Jesuity, when you think about it.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir