The priest thought of taking the opportunity to lecture the drunk and replied:
“It’s a disease caused by sinful living: excess consumption of alcohol, drugs, marijuana, crack, and certainly prostitutes, promiscuity, sex, binges and other things I dare not say.”
The drunk looked unsatisfied and continued reading the newspaper.
A little later the priest, asked the drunk: “How long have you had arthritis?”
“I don’t have arthritis. It says here in the paper that the Pope has it.”