Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

they could at least have made the vestments out of white chocolate so he could play pranks around the residence with it

as is it would make for some ok antipope jokes

pope gives up chocolate for Lent. troll pope with giant chocolate statue of pope.

This is unexpected

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/05/pope-francis-church-could-support-civil-unions/

can't believe we missed the obvious 'take, eat, this is my body' jokes

http://www.startribune.com/world/248729701.html

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Pope 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 AM

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Pope Francis celebrates the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

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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

pope doesn't have a pocket? why not steal one

Someone needs to make a sitcom based on this guy.

pope steals confessor's nose

http://tamberrinoartstudio.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_29074.jpg

they will, AB, esp if the Curia poison him

who could possibly play him in a sitcom

Jonathan Pryce!

That would rule so much!

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

Robert Blake as Benedict XVI.

that "just a bit of force" is superb.

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.

Its p much the job, when you think about it

^^ ecclesiastically accurate burn

That's gonna be my new stickup line when I turn to crime."gimme half your mercy!"

This is really crazy, is the pope an android or something?

I wonder, if the Pope gets outta line - who gonna check em? He the pope yo - aint nobody can check em

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

http://i.imgur.com/QHZ1sYI.jpg

He'll be hanging with Charlie Sheen by this time next year.

That is the expression, imo, of a man who will kill again

He was such a quiet pope, never bothered anyone, kept mostly to himself ...

Actually, last pope fit serial killer model better.

This pope is more like some "Adam Sandler accidentally becomes pope" movie. Relatively speaking.

you know at best i'm a pretty ambivalent non-churchgoing Catholic these days, but that's a mean thing to say.

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/

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

so many stolen corpse-rosaries in there

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

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.

"Those cats don't really love you, anyway" added the Pope.

good thing he has millions of pets to help stave off loneliness in his old age

pope otm until your shitty kids abandon you to a retirement home.

Mrs. Gualtieri is not having a good time there

Contraception off the shitlist?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11109080/Pope-Francis-adviser-hints-at-rethink-on-contraception-ban.html

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

fuckit I'm in I love this guy

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

Pope Benedict XVI fooled us

Kathryn Jean Lopez retweeted
Kevin Cotter @KevinRCotter · Oct 27
Just 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?

yeah Pope Ratz was a special dude Rottweiler

if k-lo is anything i know she isn't a cafeteria catholic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/11/05/pope-francis-has-99-problems-and-they-are-all-his-pellegrina/

"I love 'Gloria'!"

http://www.cathnewsusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/r-PATTI-SMITH-AND-POPE-FRANCIS-large570.jpg

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pope-francis-gets-patti-smith-singing-cardinals-vatican-christmas-concert-1474736

"I wrote 'Frederick' about ne of your predecessors!