Pope Calls to Cancel his Own Newspaper Subcription

[usc90grad]

I'm not Catholic, but this guy is cool...

Pope calls Argentine kiosk owner to cancel paper delivery

Pope Francis surprised the owner of a kiosk in Buenos Aires with a telephone call to send his greetings and explain that he will no longer need a morning paper delivered each day.

Around 1:30 p.m. local time on March 18, Daniel Del Regno, the kiosk owner’s son, answered the phone and heard a voice say, “Hi Daniel, it’s Cardinal Jorge.” He thought that maybe a friend who knew that the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires bought the newspaper from them every day was pulling a prank on him. “Seriously, it’s Jorge Bergoglio, I’m calling you from Rome,” the Pope insisted.

“I was in shock, I broke down in tears and didn’t know what to say,” Del Regno told the Argentinean daily La Nacion. “He thanked me for delivering the paper all this time and sent best wishes to my family.”

Del Regno shared that when Cardinal Bergoglio left for Rome for the conclave, he asked him if he thought he would be elected Pope. “He answered me, ‘That is too hot to touch. See you in 20 days, keep delivering the paper.’ And the rest is, well, history,” he said.

Before hanging up the phone, he added, the Pope asked him for his prayers.

Daniel’s father, Luis Del Regno, said they delivered the paper to the former cardinal’s residence every day. On Sundays, he said, the cardinal “would come by the kiosk at 5:30 a.m. and buy La Nacion. He would chat with us for a few minutes and then take the bus to Lugano, where he would serve mate (tea) to young people and the sick.”

Among the “thousands of anecdotes” the elder Del Regno remembers is one involving the rubber bands that he put around the newspapers to keep them from being blown away when they were delivered to the cardinal. “At the end of the month, he always brought them back to me. All 30 of them!”

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[lance_uppercut]

Ok....no newspaper

[FloydTheBarber]

Originally Posted by lance_uppercut

Ok....no newspaper

Are you like the message board version of Tard, the grumpy cat?

[lance_uppercut]

Originally Posted by FloydTheBarber

Are you like the message board version of Tard, the grumpy cat?

Worst. Meme. Ever.

[FloydTheBarber]

Originally Posted by lance_uppercut

Worst. Meme. Ever.

That was pretty much a way of asking if you're just a miserable individual who hates everything.

Thats a yes.

[lance_uppercut]

Originally Posted by FloydTheBarber

That was pretty much a way of asking if you're just a miserable individual who hates everything.

Thats a yes.

Said by a man who resorts to name calling....

lol

[FloydTheBarber]

Originally Posted by lance_uppercut

Said by a man who resorts to name calling....

lol

it wasnt namecalling, merely an observation.

you appear to hate everything.

[Jeff45ACP]

Originally Posted by FloydTheBarber

it wasnt namecalling, merely an observation.

you appear to hate everything.

Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate!

That's actually pretty nice of the pontiff. To do something so trivial with all the other stuff he's doing,...pretty cool imo.

[stiffolcock]

could you imagine the guy that got the phone call? "yeah, sure you are the pope...... stop screwwing around. you can get the electric pew for impersonating a pope....."

[Metalrush24]

Yeah, that is pretty cool