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To: Kaslin
Even after being chosen as Pope by the College of Cardinals, he rejected a car to take him back to his lodgings and took the bus instead. He showed a flash of humor when, later that evening, he toasted the cardinals, quipping, "May God forgive you."
ROFL... I had not heard this 'til now... How can one not ♥ this pope?
3 posted on 03/15/2013 7:07:40 AM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: mlizzy

Exactly, but I heard that is nothing unusual, I heard that he lived in an Apartment in Buenos Aires, when he was a Cardinal and that he paid his own hotel bill at the Vatican hotel when he checked out says a lot too.


6 posted on 03/15/2013 7:19:33 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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