As far as I'm concerned, the Pope is merely shorthand for the head of any religious organisation and the entire hierarchy that put him there. Either they actually believe the product they endorse, making them delusional, or they don't and just pocket the money, in which case they are hypocrites. I don't know of any other organisation in which either of these states is a job requirement. Politics, perhaps, but politicians blatantly exhibiting either condition tend to have a short shelf life.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'