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December 3rd, 2013
02:11 PM ET
Pope: I was once a bar bouncerBy Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN)– If St. Peter ever needs help at the Pearly Gates, his successor Pope Francis may be the perfect man for the job. The popular pontiff was once a bouncer at a nightclub in his native Argentina, Francis told Catholics at a church outside Rome earlier this week. He has also swept floors and run tests in a chemical laboratory, the Pope said, in revelations sure to boost his image as a "pope of the people." And, as leader of the Jesuit community in Argentina, he woke at 5:30 a.m. to do the priests' laundry, according to author Christopher Lowney. READ MORE: When Pope Francis was put on laundry duty Francis didn't offer details about his career as a bouncer, according to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, or what connection his velvet-rope experience might have to his current job as Vicar of Christ and head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Instead, the Pope told the church group, "his work later in life, teaching literature and psychology, taught him how to get people back into the church," reports Catholic News Service. Getting people into church seems to be Pope Francis' primary mission these days, as made clear by his most recent official statement, a 50,000-word pep talk to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. READ MORE: Pope Francis: No more business as usual In "Evangelii Gaudium" (The Joy of the Gospel), officially known as an "apostolic exhortation," Francis calls for church reforms, urges Catholics to be more bold and joyful, and castigates elements of modern capitalism. "I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets," the Pope said, "rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security." Did Francis leave a few barflies bruised and hurting during his bouncing days? No word on that from the Vatican yet.
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May God bless him everyday
it looks like he does. 🙂
"If St. Peter ever needs help at the Pearly Gates, his successor Pope Francis may be the perfect man for the job" ok cnn, the colbert report is funny, but trying to copy it just makes you irrespectible.
The only bouncing he did involved little boys on his lap.
ir often takes many travels through this life before one figures out what life is all about. It was much easier of Peter since he knew Jesus the Christ personally but more difficult for us in these ages so far removed. keeping this in mind this pope he good man trying to fill Peter's legacy
Bouncer in a Nite Club ? Still is !
God I love this man.
“The Roman Catholic Church, has become: like ‘the sinking oil tanker’, that has sunk to the bottom, spilling-out ‘black sludge’ everywhere. Because the spirit of theantichrist is so strong within that ‘collective organization of people’, then, they are ‘fully immersed’ in the ‘black waters’.”
(-Jesus, Sunday, June 3, 2012)
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Looked at it Jennifer,didn't care for it.It just didn't ring true,too much about keeping the same old dogma and drudgery. I like this pope,he is a good man.
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What's he going to claim next?
Pope Francis: "I was Obama's son"?
I was obama's son. So you were Obama's son and now your not? How does that work?
so what did you do with your daily bread since you obviously haven't digested it properly?
The Vatican calls itself St. Peter cathedral, is that a lie? *1st Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? (St. Mark 12:24 – 1st John 2:15)
I am far from Catholic, but I have a lot of respect for this guy.
Thats exactly what I was thinking.
That is the reason why he is the right pope. He can relate with people. There is nothing wrong in being a bouncert.
Good he has experience, he can start by bouncing all the pervert priests out of the Roman Catholic Church for a start. Let the priests marry and have a family and take a few drinks to boot! Then maybe people will have more "faith" in the Church.
Apparently you aren't catholic. Priest can drink alcohol.
Here here! Agree completely. I'd take it a step further and allow gay marriage (or civil unions or whatever the hell you want to call it) in the church. No sure if you'd sign up for that or not, but I think it'd be a healthy thing.
...at a GAY bar???
Now that would be news.
So the GOP think this man's stance on the poor is wrong??
Do they?
They tout being all about Christianity.. Yet they want to wage war on the poor….
And too many people follow the GOP's view on caring for the poor the sick and the elderly..
Greed, love of money, hating those less fortunate gotten to too many??
I think so.
The GOP hates him because he's basically telling them they're all going to Hell for the way they treat their fellow man.
I wonder ... was he doing the babes in exchange of passage into the night club? An investigation is needed ... we might a real man as head of the Church instead of some virgin dude
We are struck by this Pope because of all what we have seen from the papacy in the past. They all should act like he does and he should not be seen as out of the norm. He actually makes Christianity the way it is supposed to be not the way the church has made it to be.
I think he is merely the latest of a long line of salesman/media-guy popes. The church actually needs to have a focal point to draw attention away from the fact that it is changing its party line yet one more time. Soon it will start allowing abortions, supporting gay marriage, women priests, and so on. Already it claims to support evolution.
The unchangeable doctrine line is a great one to hide behind provided you can put up a smokescreen to hide changes behind when public pressure demands that you shift.
The Catholic Church has always embraced evolution. Many Priests are scientists as well as theologians and understand how ridiculous creationism is.
False, steve. Catholics haven't "embraced" evolution from the beginning. Claiming that is, well, way too much of a stretch. It has been more of a gradual and grudging acknowledgement at best, and still, there, exactly as in Brian the original commenter's note, the Catholic stance on evolution is still, well, evolving. So Brian, you are right on.
Here's a link about this point: http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/the-catholic-church-and-evolution/
Is the Vatican called St. Peter cathedral? (1st Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?) The Pope said don't judge what is evil *Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; *Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. (American is Babylon being ruled from afar by the catholic church)
St. Peter's is the name of the church. The Vatican is the larger complex and the city-state, also the name for the collective administrative offices (much like how we'll use the phrase Capitol Hill to include the workings of Congress and the rest of the government).
Just say you hate the Catholic Church and be done with it. Bigotry is your right.
Are there Jewish people in Catholicism and in Judaism? When did Christ ever preach & teach religion to the world The Roman Catholic church, they chose to love their Popes as Greek gods. They hate Christ who is Hebrew an Israelite Jew from Judah, who is one of Jacob's sons. (Isaiah 65:9) Behold, the prophecies are here in these last days.
Please do some research and stop spreading things that are not true. Catholics do not worship the Popes as"Greek gods" and, the silliest of all, Catholics hate Jesus Christ. Where do you get this stuff?
I'd say that Rush Limbaugh rotted his brain, but it seems even more confused, perhaps Glenn Beck?
If you hate them, why shouldn't they hate you back?
Religious bigotry is only ok when you do it?
Since it's the last days can I have your car?
I like the new pope a lot – I am not even a christian but he strikes me as a gentle caring and honest person who is going to do good for humanity – wish all the religious leaders could take a page out of his book.
I'm an atheist, but if Rush dosen't like you, its a mark in your favor.
I have to agree with that
True that....