Pope says f*** in Sunday blessing gaffe

[The Straight Story]

Pope says f*** in Sunday blessing gaffe

Pope Francis made a rare linguistic error during his weekly blessing on Sunday, transforming a harmless Italian word into one of the strongest swearwords in the dictionary.

The Pope’s message of charity was lost in translation on Sunday, as he accidentally muddled “caso” (“case”) with “cazzo” (“fuck”).

“If each one of us does not amass riches only for oneself, but half for the service of others, in this fuck (pause), in this case the providence of God will become visible through this gesture of solidarity,” he told followers amassed in St Peter’s Square.

Although a flustered Pope quickly corrected his error, the pontiff’s gaffe was quickly published on YouTube and has since garnered tens of thousands of hits.

But despite swearing from the window of the capital of the Catholic Church, the ever-popular Pope received a warm response.

http://www.thelocal.it/20140303/pope-says-fuck-in-sunday-blessing-gaffe

[diabeticman]

1. Shows the guy is human.

[panader0]

2. "The natural vigor in the venial sin is the way in which our lives begin"--TS Eliot--Murder in the

Cathedral

[Junkdrawer]

3. One of the boys...

Yesterday I posted this...

To the geniuses in the Deep State who decided to provoke Putin:

We had a saying in the neighborhood where I grew up: "Fuck around, get a beating."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4589350

It was, of course, a Catholic neighborhood. Catholic boys where I grew up had to work "fuck" into any statement of serious intent. Must be something about taboos and rebellion.