The pope brought up aliens during his daily mass as a part of a larger discussion on who should be allowed to be baptized. Now, Il Papa, being Cool Pope and all, believes that the church should be willing to baptize anyone, no matter what their background — even if it means that their parents are cohabitating and unmarried or if they happen to be visiting from Mars.He asked, "If tomorrow, for example, an expedition of Martians arrives and some of them come to us ... and if one of them says: 'Me, I want to be baptised!', what would happen?" Pope Francis has not only brought jokes to the Vatican, since being sworn in he has promised to make the Catholic Church less "Vatican-centric", more transparent, and closer to ordinary people.
"I remember in Brazil, they'd provided for me an enclosed Popemobile, but I cannot greet the people and tell them I love them inside a sardine can, even if it is made of glass. For me it is a wall.""It is true something could happen to me but let's be realistic, at my age I do not have much to lose. I know what could happen, but it is in God's hands."
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In a recent interview with a Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, Pope Francis spoke about why he prefers not to use the bulletproof Popemobile, explaining that at his age he doesn't have "much to lose."The bulletproof Popemobile was introduced after the attempted assassination of John Paul II in 1981, and favored by Francis's predecessor Benedict XVI. Cool Pope, however, does not have time for that bullshit. He told La Vanguardia:Less chill Vatican officials aren't particularly happy with this choice, and are said to have voiced fears for his safety during recent appearances in Jordan, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. They were also unhappy with his decision to, last July, tour Rio de Janeiro in, according to The Independent, "an open-topped white jeep along the sea front of Copacabana beach."h/t Gawker and brave Pope
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During his homily at an outdoor Mass, Francis denounced the 'ndrangheta for what he called its "adoration of evil and contempt for the common good.""Those who go down the evil path, as the Mafiosi do, are not in communion with God. They are excommunicated," he warned.
"The fact is that woman was taken from a rib." Giansoldati wrote that he then laughed "heartily" before saying: "I'm joking. That was a joke." jokester pope!The 77-year-old pontiff went on: "The issue of women needs to be gone into in more depth, otherwise you can't understand the church itself." But did he envisage, say, appointing a woman to head a Vatican department?"Well," replied the pope cryptically. "Priests often end up under the sway of their housekeepers." via
