Pope Francis angered by America's 'mother of all bombs' name

BBC News ^ | 6th May | BBC News

[Ennis85]

Pope Francis has criticised the naming of the US military's largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in combat as "the mother of all bombs".

"I was ashamed when I heard the name," the pontiff told an audience of students at the Vatican. "A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is going on?" he asked.

Last month the US dropped such a bomb, which weighs 21,600lb (9,800kg), on Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said it was dropped from a US aircraft in Nangarhar province, targeting tunnel complex used by IS.

The explosive is officially called the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), but is widely known as "the mother of all bombs". It was first tested in 2003, but had not been deployed in combat before. The Pope's comments come ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump on 24 May.

[gaijin]

Snowflake **POPE**..?!?

I thought I’d heard it all.

I THOUGHT.

[gaijin]

Miss him more all the time...

[Rebelbase]

Call it Bomacita.

[Incorrigible]

Is this a parody article?

[jennychase]

He is channeling Sheila Jackson Lee.

[Gay State Conservative]

My Pope.

[TTFX]

lol, no. Francis’ real life will outparody any writer.

[Defiant]

The moron apparently wasn’t reading papers when Saddam promised the “mother of all battles”. The bomb’s nickname was a parody of that, a joke.

[2001convSVT]

The Pope may learn that America is not the same country it once was, 50 years of pulpit silence has served the secularist well.

[cyclotic]

The more I hear of this guy, the more glad I am to not be catholic. What an idiot.

[FreedomStar3028]

Obama was an enemy in the gates.

This pope is an enemy outside the gates.

Every other day he tops his previous dumbest statement with a new one.

[867V309]

lighten up, francis.

[Jane Long]

Miss me, yet?

[Arthur McGowan]

The Roman Missal calls the Easter Vigil “the mother of all liturgies.”

[yarddog]

He seems to be a combination of Marxist, Muslim and Moron.

[dp0622]

Were you disgusted to be American under obama.

Are your allegiances and faiths so weak that you fall apart in the presence of one bad leader.

I pity you and will say a Holy Rosary for you.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Has anyone ever seen Francis and Ruprecht in the same room?

[soycd]

>”the mother of all bombs”.

Lighten up Francis.

[gnarledmaw]

Francis really is a twit. The next pope is probably going to find the underside of everything covered in boogers and chewing gum. He has to be some sort of test from The Divine.