"Habet testes" "He has testicles!" The assembled cardinals apparently cheer about this fact. This after the following ritual took place behind the closed doors of the election, according to certain historians: The chosen one sits on the so-called "sedes stercoraria" (excrement chair), a marble armchair with an opening in the seat. Then the youngest cardinal present verifies with a courageous grip under the cassock and between the legs of the next Pope that his masculinity is firstly present and secondly intact.
If everything is as expected, the said "habet testes" takes place. Then the assembled curia cheers unanimously: "Deo gratias! "Then be God". As bizarre as the church test may seem, it is not a shoulder-beating masculinity ritual of Catholicism, but has religious reasons: Since Old Testament times, only those who had an intact masculinity could become priests.