man, what are ya supposed to say to someone who plops you in front of a life-sized chocolate statue of yourself
― j., Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
You say thank you very much, then later that someone gets fired.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
later that day
they could at least have made the vestments out of white chocolate so he could play pranks around the residence with it
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
as is it would make for some ok antipope jokes
― j., Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
pope gives up chocolate for Lent. troll pope with giant chocolate statue of pope.
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
This is unexpected
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/05/pope-francis-church-could-support-civil-unions/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 March 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
can't believe we missed the obvious 'take, eat, this is my body' jokes
― j., Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/world/248729701.html
Home WorldPope confesses he stole his late confessor's cross in hopes of having half as much mercy Article by: NICOLE WINFIELD , Associated Press Updated: March 6, 2014 - 8:52 AMhidePope Francis celebrates the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2014.Photo: Max Rossi, Associated Press - ApCameraStar Tribune photo galleriesCameraview larger 16 comments decrease font size resize text increase font size print buy reprints Share17 Share via EmailVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis confessed Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, "Give me half your mercy."Francis made the revelation Thursday during an informal chat with Roman priests about the need to be merciful to their flocks. He told the story of the "great confessor" of Buenos Aires who had heard confessions from most of the diocesan priests as well as from Pope John Paul II when he visited Argentina.When the priest died, Francis went to pray by his open casket and was stunned that no one had brought any flowers."This man forgave the sins of all the priests of Buenos Aires, but not a single flower ...?" Francis recalled. So he went out and bought a bouquet of roses, and when he returned to arrange them around the casket, he saw the rosary the priest still held in his hand."And immediately there came to mind the thief we all have inside ourselves and while I arranged the flowers I took the cross and with just a bit of force I removed it," he said, showing with his hands how he pulled the cross off the rosary. "And in that moment I looked at him and I said 'Give me half your mercy.'"Francis said he kept the cross in his shirt pocket for years, but that the cassock he wears now as pope doesn't have a pocket. He now keeps it in a little pouch underneath.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis confessed Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, "Give me half your mercy."
Francis made the revelation Thursday during an informal chat with Roman priests about the need to be merciful to their flocks. He told the story of the "great confessor" of Buenos Aires who had heard confessions from most of the diocesan priests as well as from Pope John Paul II when he visited Argentina.
When the priest died, Francis went to pray by his open casket and was stunned that no one had brought any flowers.
"This man forgave the sins of all the priests of Buenos Aires, but not a single flower ...?" Francis recalled. So he went out and bought a bouquet of roses, and when he returned to arrange them around the casket, he saw the rosary the priest still held in his hand.
"And immediately there came to mind the thief we all have inside ourselves and while I arranged the flowers I took the cross and with just a bit of force I removed it," he said, showing with his hands how he pulled the cross off the rosary. "And in that moment I looked at him and I said 'Give me half your mercy.'"
Francis said he kept the cross in his shirt pocket for years, but that the cassock he wears now as pope doesn't have a pocket. He now keeps it in a little pouch underneath.
pope steals from dead priest, fukkin wicked
― j., Thursday, 6 March 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
pope doesn't have a pocket? why not steal one
― brownie, Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Someone needs to make a sitcom based on this guy.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
pope steals confessor's nose
http://tamberrinoartstudio.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_29074.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
they will, AB, esp if the Curia poison him
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
who could possibly play him in a sitcom
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Jonathan Pryce!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
That would rule so much!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/4/9/1/7/0/3/Pope-Francis-Jeffrey-Tambor-103840793473.jpeg
i was kidding, it is obv tambor
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Robert Blake as Benedict XVI.
― brains hangin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
that "just a bit of force" is superb.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
I think he has the only job in the world where you could get away with demonstrating how you stole a cross from a corpse's hands.
― brains hangin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
Its p much the job, when you think about it
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
^^ ecclesiastically accurate burn
― j., Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
That's gonna be my new stickup line when I turn to crime."gimme half your mercy!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
This is really crazy, is the pope an android or something?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 March 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
I wonder, if the Pope gets outta line - who gonna check em? He the pope yo - aint nobody can check em
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
There's a weekly fanzine.
http://www.formiche.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Il-Mio-Papa-400x349.jpg
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2014/mar/05/pope-francis-il-mio-papa-silvio-berlusconi
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QHZ1sYI.jpg
― Dan I., Sunday, 9 March 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
He'll be hanging with Charlie Sheen by this time next year.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 March 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
That is the expression, imo, of a man who will kill again
― unw? j.......n (darraghmac), Monday, 10 March 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
He was such a quiet pope, never bothered anyone, kept mostly to himself ...
Actually, last pope fit serial killer model better.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 March 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
This pope is more like some "Adam Sandler accidentally becomes pope" movie. Relatively speaking.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 March 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
you know at best i'm a pretty ambivalent non-churchgoing Catholic these days, but that's a mean thing to say.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 March 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
relatively.
http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/yimcatholic/files/2013/03/537721_10200855986148258_584094388_n.jpg
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-goes-on-retreat-takes-the-bus/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/Pope_Francis_arrives_by_bus_in_Ariccia_Italy_for_a_week_of_Lenten_spiritual_exercises_on_March_9_2014_Credit_ANSA_OSSERVATORE_ROMANO_CNA_3_10_11.jpg
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
so many stolen corpse-rosaries in there
― j., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
well here he lost the silent majority of ilx
The Pope criticised couples who decide not to have children during the service, saying they had been seduced by the myth that a life of material comfort is better than raising a family. 'You can go explore the world, go on holiday, you can have a villa in the countryside, you can be carefree,' he said. It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog, two cats, and the love goes to the two cats and the dog. Is this true or not? Have you seen it?', the Pope added. 'Then, in the end this marriage comes to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness,' he went on to say. The remarks came over the Pope told those gathered that the three most important aspects of a Christian marriage are fidelity, perseverance and 'fruitfulness', according to Vatican Radio.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646782/Pope-Francis-tells-couples-not-pets-instead-raising-children-lead-bitterness-loneliness-later-life.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
No shocker there. These are common bromides that have just enough truth to describe a carefully selected slice of reality, but not enough truth to describe reality.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
"Those cats don't really love you, anyway" added the Pope.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
good thing he has millions of pets to help stave off loneliness in his old age
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
pope otm until your shitty kids abandon you to a retirement home.
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Mrs. Gualtieri is not having a good time there
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Contraception off the shitlist?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11109080/Pope-Francis-adviser-hints-at-rethink-on-contraception-ban.html
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
fuckit I'm in I love this guy
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Francis’s comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was “more than a hypothesis” and “effectively proven fact”.
we're not a gaggle of Baptists, u know
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Pope Benedict XVI fooled us
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Kathryn Jean Lopez retweeted Kevin Cotter @KevinRCotter · Oct 27Just found out that my book, A Year of Mercy with Pope Francis, will be available in 3 days. Can't wait. http://ow.ly/i/7mtqc
so will you revise it?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah Pope Ratz was a special dude Rottweiler
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
if k-lo is anything i know she isn't a cafeteria catholic
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link