“Fuck,” said chill 77-year-old 7-year-old Pope Francis while testing out the waters of which cuss words are permissible for use during an ‘Angelus’ blessing delivered to the potty-mouthed sinners assembled in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, amassed as they do every week to receive in fumbled Italian a pontifical berating from the filthy pronged tongue of God’s chosen representative on earth.
With respect to the Pope, Italian is not his native tongue, the Italian word for ‘case’ [caso] is dangerously close to the Italian word for ‘fuck’ [cazzo] and leading a life devoid of sin is hard at the best of times.
Swore Pope Francis: “If each of us were to accumulate wealth not only for ourselves but to put at the service of others, in this fuck [a beat], in this case God’s providence would manifest itself in this gesture of solidarity.”
In other contexts, ‘cazzo’ also literally translates as ‘cock’, so Pope Francis definitely said either “fuck” or “cock” during his weekly blessing and you’ve inadvertently stumbled upon the foundation of an enriching bilingual life.
Also, Lent starts tomorrow, meaning today is Pancake (or Shrove) Tuesday.
Happy Pancock Tuesday. 
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