After a pretty heavy post yesterday, I thought we could all use some levity today.
Everybody has a slip of the tongue every once in a while, right?
Sometimes on accident, sometimes on purpose, but at the end of the day, it’s not front page news.
Well, not everybody is the pope. Actually, just one of us is and while delivering his weekly blessing from the Vatican he dropped the biggest cuss word of them all. The one you’re really not supped to say.
(Don’t worry, the video is safe for work…unless everybody at work speaks Italian)
So this means we don’t have feel bad about cussing anymore, right?!
Not even in church!!
Alas, it is not to be.
As it turns out, according to this story from Slate, it was just a slip of the tongue. The Argentinian pope’s native language is, of course, Spanish and he was delivering this particular blessing in Italian. So it was just a mispronunciation of a foreign word.
But let’s be honest.
This is probably the greatest thing that has ever happened to every little Catholic boy and girl (and this guy) out there.
Because we all know that from now on, every time they get in trouble for saying a “no no” word, they’ve got the perfect get out of jail free card.
“But mommy, Pope Francis said a cuss word too…”