• The Pope had returned from Andorra, the first pontiff to visit the country, prior to Vatican III [90]. The accidental atomizing of Greenland last year called forth the encyclical Sistite Si Bobis Placet (Please Stop), but this year's encyclical crop has produced only Et Antiquum Documentum, which shows that many supposed errors of the Greek and Latin Fathers are in reality cleverly concealed truths.
• The Pope will report on his trip last fall to Catholic colleges in the United States, though his secretary, Father Cordwain, says the trip was not all the Pope had expected it to be [90-2]; visited Mount Athos College. The Holy Office, after due consideration, issued a bulla oblongata entitled Nil Inultum Remanebit, which in effect placed NACSTUS under interdict.
• Charles "Buzzy" Cardinal Sparber was in attendance.
• During the spring session of Vatican III, an "elderly American bishop who, during the debate on the Baltimore Catechism, got the idea that a nuclear cataclysm had occurred in Baltimore [93].
• Father Wampyir, studying at Church of San Pietro in Vincoli says kids today read Joyce and neglect Chesterton and Belloc.
• The worst squabble at Vatican III involved Bishop Ratkissonescu.

"Desist, if you please (Sistite Si Bobis Placet) is pretty much a literal rendering of 'Please Stop' in Latin," says Bowen. "Et Antiquum Documentum (ancient example or proof) is actually a line from a Latin hymn sung at the benediction service, part of a hymn to the sacrament of the Eucharist, Pange lingua, which is attributed to St. Thomas Acquinas."

A bulla oblongata suggest an influence of medulla oblongata, the part of the brain. Bowen notes that Nil inultum remanebit means nothing will go unpunished - "an appropriate sentiment for the sort of document John is writing about."

Definition of cordwain: an archaic term for cordovan leather.

While Myers notes Wampyir looks Polish, we find that it might be an alternate spelling for vampire (wamphyir) in some other language. "If so, that's probably what John meant," Bowen says.