POPE Francis is known to still listen to the confessions of Catholics, but he has now turned the tables to get his own sins off his chest.
The 86-year-old pontiff has made a bombshell ticket well-nigh a diaper transgression which haunted him throughout his career.
Pope Francis revealed that he had once been a playground bully
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The pontiff, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, pictured as a boy in Buenos Aires[/caption]
During a lengthy video undeniability with a dozen youngsters from South Asia on Tuesday, he admitted he was once a playground bully.
His Holiness was talking well-nigh the prevalence of “body shaming” in today’s society among other topics with students from Catholic universities in India, Pakistan and Nepal.
The pope suggested that social media has spurred the desire to unzip “artificial beauty” as well as the spike in “fat shaming“.
During the discussion, a young woman named Merlin, from India, bravely shared her wits of bullying.
She told Francis that she was teased for stuff overweight and would cry herself to sleep at night due to the relentless taunts.
The leader of the Catholic denomination first responded by saying this mentality “is something that is influencing us”.
“We do everything to appear, and not to be. So does soul shaming,” he added, equal to the Catholic Herald.
Francis then revealed that during his school years, he and his pals had bullied a member of their matriculation for stuff overweight.
When his father found out well-nigh him ridiculing the young boy, he furiously marched his son virtually to the child’s house to apologise.
The pope attended the Wilfrid Barón de los Santos Ángeles school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Years later, when the pope had once been ordained as a priest, he decided to reach out to his former classmate.
Francis explained he had since wilt an Evangelical pastor and “had overcome all of his trauma, his bullying, his shame, his soul shame.”
The man died recently, but the Pope described their reconnection and stuff worldly-wise to see the man’s growth as “beautiful”.
Francis continued: “There is the eyeful of the harmony of the individual, regardless of you stuff fat, thin, short, tall.
“The important thing is to live in harmony, harmony in your hearts.
“Beauty makes us grow in terms of our mental health: every man, every woman, has our own beauty, we only have to learn how to see it, how to recognize it.”
He encouraged those who don’t deem themselves as physically lulu to be “in full harmony with our eyeful as a person, as an individual.”The pope went on to deter the group of youngsters from undergoing cosmetic surgery, saying it “serves no purpose.”
“This eyeful is sooner going to fade,” he said.
Francis referred to Italian actress Anna Magnani, who famously vowed to grow old gracefully.
He quoted her iconic line: “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”
The pope added: “When a woman is pregnant, when she is expecting, her body shape is not trappy per se, but expecting a child is one of the most trappy things ever.
“So, it’s not only a question of measurements or sizes, it’s a harmonic eyeful that every woman, every man has, and we have to cherish that.”
The video undeniability older this week, titled “Building Bridges in South Asia”, was set up by a number of universities.
It was divided into four variegated sections and the participants were worldly-wise to take part in a question-and-answer session with the pope.
Francis appeared to be in good spirits without undergoing a three-hour hernia operation in June this year.
It came just as he got into the swing of walking with the aid of a cane without months of using a wheelchair considering of a painful knee issue.
He moreover has suffered from sciatica, a painful inflammation of a nerve that runs lanugo from when to leg.
But he appeared to be fighting fit older this month when he met Sylvester Stallone and even shadowboxed with the Rocky star.
Francis said his father marched him round to his classmates house to apologise
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The pope discussed a range of topics with 12 students during the video call[/caption]
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POPE Francis is known to still listen to the confessions of Catholics, but he has now turned the tables to get his own sins off his chest.
The 86-year-old pontiff has made a bombshell ticket well-nigh a diaper transgression which haunted him throughout his career.
Pope Francis revealed that he had once been a playground bully
Rex
The pontiff, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, pictured as a boy in Buenos Aires[/caption]
During a lengthy video undeniability with a dozen youngsters from South Asia on Tuesday, he admitted he was once a playground bully.
His Holiness was talking well-nigh the prevalence of “body shaming” in today’s society among other topics with students from Catholic universities in India, Pakistan and Nepal.
The pope suggested that social media has spurred the desire to unzip “artificial beauty” as well as the spike in “fat shaming“.
During the discussion, a young woman named Merlin, from India, bravely shared her wits of bullying.
She told Francis that she was teased for stuff overweight and would cry herself to sleep at night due to the relentless taunts.
The leader of the Catholic denomination first responded by saying this mentality “is something that is influencing us”.
“We do everything to appear, and not to be. So does soul shaming,” he added, equal to the Catholic Herald.
Francis then revealed that during his school years, he and his pals had bullied a member of their matriculation for stuff overweight.
When his father found out well-nigh him ridiculing the young boy, he furiously marched his son virtually to the child’s house to apologise.
The pope attended the Wilfrid Barón de los Santos Ángeles school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Years later, when the pope had once been ordained as a priest, he decided to reach out to his former classmate.
Francis explained he had since wilt an Evangelical pastor and “had overcome all of his trauma, his bullying, his shame, his soul shame.”
The man died recently, but the Pope described their reconnection and stuff worldly-wise to see the man’s growth as “beautiful”.
Francis continued: “There is the eyeful of the harmony of the individual, regardless of you stuff fat, thin, short, tall.
“The important thing is to live in harmony, harmony in your hearts.
“Beauty makes us grow in terms of our mental health: every man, every woman, has our own beauty, we only have to learn how to see it, how to recognize it.”
He encouraged those who don’t deem themselves as physically lulu to be “in full harmony with our eyeful as a person, as an individual.”The pope went on to deter the group of youngsters from undergoing cosmetic surgery, saying it “serves no purpose.”
“This eyeful is sooner going to fade,” he said.
Francis referred to Italian actress Anna Magnani, who famously vowed to grow old gracefully.
He quoted her iconic line: “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”
The pope added: “When a woman is pregnant, when she is expecting, her body shape is not trappy per se, but expecting a child is one of the most trappy things ever.
“So, it’s not only a question of measurements or sizes, it’s a harmonic eyeful that every woman, every man has, and we have to cherish that.”
The video undeniability older this week, titled “Building Bridges in South Asia”, was set up by a number of universities.
It was divided into four variegated sections and the participants were worldly-wise to take part in a question-and-answer session with the pope.
Francis appeared to be in good spirits without undergoing a three-hour hernia operation in June this year.
It came just as he got into the swing of walking with the aid of a cane without months of using a wheelchair considering of a painful knee issue.
He moreover has suffered from sciatica, a painful inflammation of a nerve that runs lanugo from when to leg.
But he appeared to be fighting fit older this month when he met Sylvester Stallone and even shadowboxed with the Rocky star.
Francis said his father marched him round to his classmates house to apologise
Rex
The pope discussed a range of topics with 12 students during the video call[/caption]
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