{"id":3774,"date":"2014-03-04T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2014-03-04T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:29:22","slug":"pope-francis-drops-italian-equivalent-of-an-f-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=3774","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis drops Italian equivalent of an F-bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3775\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-02T145125Z_1_LOVEA21159OJ6_RTRMADP_BASEIMAGE-960X540_VATICAN-POPE-UKRAINE-ROUGH-CUT-O.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3775\" alt=\"Pope Francis\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-02T145125Z_1_LOVEA21159OJ6_RTRMADP_BASEIMAGE-960X540_VATICAN-POPE-UKRAINE-ROUGH-CUT-O-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-02T145125Z_1_LOVEA21159OJ6_RTRMADP_BASEIMAGE-960X540_VATICAN-POPE-UKRAINE-ROUGH-CUT-O-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-02T145125Z_1_LOVEA21159OJ6_RTRMADP_BASEIMAGE-960X540_VATICAN-POPE-UKRAINE-ROUGH-CUT-O.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Francis dropped the Italian equivalent of an F-bomb during Sunday&#8217;s address from the Vatican&#8217;s Apostolic Palace.<\/p>\n<p>No need to wash out the pontiff&#8217;s mouth with soap, though. It seems that the swear word was a simple slip of the tongue, NPR reports.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, speaking in Italian (not his first language, Spanish), said the Italian version of the king of bad words. He was attempting to say &#8220;caso,&#8221; which translates into &#8220;example&#8221; or &#8220;case.&#8221; The pope corrected himself immediately.<\/p>\n<p>A translation of the unfortunate error was posted to The Local: &#8220;If each one of us does not amass riches only for oneself, but half for the service of others, in this f*** [pause], in this case the providence of God will become visible through this gesture of solidarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, as they say, s&#8212; happens. And the pope shouldn&#8217;t feel alone. This is hardly the first time a person in a position of power said something uncouth. Vice President Joe Biden was famously heard describing the Affordable Care Act as a &#8220;big f&#8212;ing deal,&#8221; and his boss, President Barack Obama, once told TV journalist Matt Lauer that he was trying to figure out &#8220;whose a&#8211; to kick&#8221; regarding the BP oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>And let us not forget former Vice President Dick Cheney, who told Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to &#8220;go f&#8212; himself&#8221; in 2004 after Leahy criticized Cheney over his Halliburton contacts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Yahoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis dropped the Italian equivalent of an F-bomb during Sunday&#8217;s address from the Vatican&#8217;s Apostolic Palace. No need to wash out the pontiff&#8217;s mouth with soap, though. It seems that the swear word was a simple slip of the tongue, NPR reports. Francis, speaking in Italian (not his first language, Spanish), said the Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}