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What do you call a franciscan monk with wings?

An air friar.

A cannibal complains to his friend that he has heartburn.

Cannibal 1 continues: "I think it was this Franciscan monk I ate yesterday"

Cannibal 2 asks: "Really, how'd you cook him?"

Cannibal 1 says, "I boiled him"
Cannibal 2 says, "There's your problem, you shouldn't boil a Franciscan, they're friars"

A group of Franciscan Monks arrived at the front of the Playboy Mansion

They all started setting up shops. One by one, they would close down, and the only carts that remained sold flowers.

The police and the media started to show up, amazed that the monks were able to sell flowers on the Playboy Mansion front steps. Passers by would buy a rose, and pass the house...

Just landed in Rome, Italy. My pilot used to be a Franciscan Monk...

...But now he’s an Air Friar.

A Jesuit and a Franciscan were involved in a car accident...

A Jesuit and a Franciscan were involved in a car accident. Hurriedly they got out to make sure the other person was OK, each insisting that it was probably his own fault.

Then the Jesuit, very concerned for his fellow religious, said, "You look very badly shaken up. You could probably use a s...

Do Las Vegas churches accept gambling chips?

Do Las Vegas churches accept gambling chips?
This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas , but there are more Catholic churches than casinos.
Not surprisingly, some worshipers at Sunday services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed.
Si...

So there's this barber in a small town...

So there's this barber in a small town. One day he's sitting in his barbershop and a man walks in wearing a pair of sandals, and a long brown robe with a hood. The man sits down in the barber's chair. "Excuse me," says the barber. "I was wondering: why are you dressed like that?"
"Well," says th...

Religious smoking joke

A Franciscan and a Jesuit were friends. They were both smokers who found it difficult to pray for a long period of time without having a cigarette. They decided to go to their superiors and ask for permission to smoke.

 

When they met again, the Franciscan was downcast. “I ask...

A devout Catholic decided he wanted a Lamborghini...

...but he wasn't very wealthy so he confided in a few different holy men he was close with to ask them for their advice.

First, he called up a Franciscan priest he knew and asked "Father, do you think I should pray a novena for a Lamborghini?" The Franciscan replied, "What's a Lamborghini?"...

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