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Pope Francis speaks on phone at end of general audience
CNA ^ | 8/11/2021 | By Hannah Brockhaus

Posted on 08/11/2021 12:48:37 PM PDT by RummyChick

In an unusual occurrence, Pope Francis made an unknown phone call at the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday.

A livestream video of the Aug. 11 audience in the Vatican’s Pope Paul VI Hall showed the pope giving his apostolic blessing, then being approached by one of his assistants. The two could be seen speaking together for a moment before Pope Francis was handed a cellphone which he put to his ear.

According to people present in the hall, the pope spoke on the phone for around two minutes, then gestured to the crowd that he would return soon and left the room. He came back shortly afterward to greet the people gathered to see him.

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: popeche; popefrancis
apparently a rare thing to happen. too bad it's not a recall
1 posted on 08/11/2021 12:48:37 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

“.... No, no. I said Double Cheese, Double Pepperoni.”

~ Il Papa


2 posted on 08/11/2021 12:50:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: RummyChick

Medical test results?


3 posted on 08/11/2021 12:50:11 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

____________ test result.


4 posted on 08/11/2021 12:51:27 PM PDT by polymuser (BLA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Unknown phone call? Nah. He was talking to God.

… Just tryin' to make his way home
Like back up to heaven all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

More

5 posted on 08/11/2021 12:52:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: irishjuggler

A direct line from God. Maybe a come to Jesus moment


6 posted on 08/11/2021 12:52:54 PM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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To: RummyChick

.. . checking his grinder ad ??


7 posted on 08/11/2021 12:53:09 PM PDT by Spaceman49
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To: RummyChick

Pope Francis is a loose canon........................


8 posted on 08/11/2021 12:55:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: RummyChick

Even an innocuous post like this regarding Frank disgusts me. No pope in our lifetime ever needed death like this imposter POS.

The only problem is when Frank-the-Horrible dies, some other homosexualist, Marxist trash bag will replace him.

Perhaps God can just make the Vatican into a skidmark, which is what may need to happen at this point.


9 posted on 08/11/2021 12:58:52 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I guess that pizza deliveries are the reason that Pope Francis is
“somewhat tubbier” than Saint Francis was.
(St. Francis begged forr his food).


10 posted on 08/11/2021 12:59:10 PM PDT by syriacus ( 2020 US Elections: "The PAUSE heard 'round the WORLD." )
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To: RummyChick
Pope: Hold up. Let me call my leader with our special iPhone connection to check the status on the bread for communion.


11 posted on 08/11/2021 1:06:21 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Devil called, said maybe Francis was taking it too far...


12 posted on 08/11/2021 1:07:12 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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lolol. i like that it was the Devil calling.

Or maybe it was just Che where ever he may be


13 posted on 08/11/2021 1:10:24 PM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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“Area Code 666” in the caller ID is a clue.


14 posted on 08/11/2021 1:16:26 PM PDT by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: RummyChick

You don’t send God to voicemail.


15 posted on 08/11/2021 1:33:27 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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This is so clearly a staged incident.

I have attended Mass where the fire alarm went off...the Priest stopped the Mass, told the congregation that the alarm system had been acting up and it's not a real fire, and he continued without stopping. He yelled the Homily. Nobody left, because The Mass is more important than a fire alarm.

I know this wasn't a Mass, per se. But there is literally NO PHONE CALL that is so bloody important that it should interrupt a General Audience. It's not like his kids needed him to refil their checking account, or his wife wasn't feeling well. The news - even if it was Benedict XVII dying - could have waited.

What this theatre is intended to do, is acclimatize the faithful that some earthly things ARE more important than Heaven.

16 posted on 08/11/2021 1:36:35 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: RummyChick

What a jerk. And a rude jerk to boot. All these people were out there for the Wednesday audience, he takes the phone out of his pocket when it rings (no silencing, let it go to voicemail, etc.), chats for a bit and then waves and says he’ll be back and goes “offstage.”

Of course, this is the man who called a Cardinal in the middle of Mass (a mass the Cardinal was celebrating here in the US) and demanded to have the person who answered get the Cardinal and bring him to the phone, no matter what. Mass? Mass schmass.


17 posted on 08/11/2021 1:36:55 PM PDT by livius
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To: Responsibility2nd

🍕 🍺 🤣


18 posted on 08/11/2021 2:53:47 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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