In a rare slip-of-the-tongue, Pope Francis accidentally swore during his weekly blessing in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday, offering much hilarity for the online masses, with a number of clips of his gaff already on YouTube.
Pope Francis has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for “pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets”. He beat nine others including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Bashar al-Assad.
Pope Francis has revealed that he once worked as a bouncer in an Argentinian nightclub, a first for the head of the Catholic Church.
While the world was waiting for the result of the election of the new pope, Argentinians were hopeful a fellow countryman would become the pope. The white smoke at the Vatican announced the decision was made: the first jesuit and the first Argentinian pope, Jorge Bergoglio -now Francis I- would become the maximum authority of the Catholic Church after Benedict XVI.
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has been selected as the new Pope after only two days of conclave, where he will take the name Pope Francis I