BREAKING NEWS – Rome, Italy – An unidentified priest (right) has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for playing a series of practical jokes on Pope Benedict XVI. The final straw is when he was seen releasing a spring-loaded microphone, that knocked the Pope unconscious during a Sunday service. Earlier in the week, he was caught putting a whoopee cushion under the Pope’s chair, and placing some rubber doggie mess outside of his bedroom door.