For as long as I can remember, people have been saying "the pope smokes dope". You laughed it all off didn’t you? Well who’s to say the pope wasn’t indulging in a little bit of the wacky backy WHILE HE MADE HIS PROG ALBUM? That’s right, this is bulletproof truth, Pope Francis is releasing prog album Wake Up! on November 27 and he’s premiered his first track on Rolling Stone. "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!" is a fairly traditional prog track, except unlike other prog tracks, it features the actual pope talking over it.

The album’s artistic director Don Giulio Neroni told Rolling Stone: "For many years, I’ve been the producer and the artistic director of albums by the Pope. I had the honour to work with John Paul II, Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis. As in the past, for this album too, I tried to be strongly faithful to the pastoral and personality of Pope Francis: the Pope of dialogue, open doors, hospitality. For this reason, the voice of Pope Francis in Wake Up! dialogues music. And contemporary music dialogues with the Christian tradition of sacred hymns."

A musician called Tony Pagliuca who played in a prog rock band called Le Orme features heavily on the record and composed many of the songs. Rolling Stone compares the music to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but we’re not sure how the Canadian band would feel about that.

Listen to Pope Francis’ new jam here and consider any earlier inference that Pope Francis has ever smoked weed retracted. He hasn‘t.