Sometimes, I wonder whether people are looking for something to talk about. Pope Francis has obtained a new passport from his native country – BERGOGLIO, Jorge Mario. Well, one might protest, he is the Pope and is supposed to have Vatican identity papers and nationality.
I suppose I’m not the Pope, but here’s mine:
I live in France, yet I still renew my passport with the British Consulate in Paris. Yes, I have remained British and I am allowed to live and work in France by virtue of being a national of a member State of Europe. I doubt whether my passport will go viral!
Well, there we are. Pope Francis is Argentinian. What a surprise!
The Blue Flower 
Well we do have to guess, it’s not like he’s going to come right out and say he doesn’t want to be pope. I like how he spinned it though, making out like he was just being humble and going through the normal route of getting a passport like anyone else would. This guy has got to be the humblest man on the planet.
My first reaction to the various articles about his papers was to ask how they got photographed and reproduced. I don’t think the Argentinian Consulate in Rome would release them to all and sundry.
Humble? Proud? It seems not to make any difference. When I was a student in London in the 1970’s, we had a Student Union newspaper, and one story in it was The Adventures of Micky Drivel. I have the impression of reading the same Existentialist stuff again!
Perhaps he’ll make sure his successor is elected the same way as the President of the Italian Republic…
By a bunch of corrupted and ideologised Italian congressmen?
Deus avertat!
Eco! La combinazione! Congressmen? More like businessmen or simply money grabbers!