What did he mean by this?>The pontiff responded by saying that he doesn’t go to the doctor but to a witch.https://cruxnow.com/pope-in-chile-and-peru/2018/01/15/pope-uses-flight-chile-urge-end-nuclear-war/>Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh says i

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Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 00:49:04 f21062 No.589632

What did he mean by this?

>The pontiff responded by saying that he doesn’t go to the doctor but to a witch.

https://cruxnow.com/pope-in-chile-and-peru/2018/01/15/pope-uses-flight-chile-urge-end-nuclear-war/

>Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh says in 2004, the Pope, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, began treatment with a Taoist monk named Liu Ming

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/09/20/pope-francis-five-facts/amp/

Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 01:07:56 cad2ba No.589644

Read in context it's a joke about his relatively good health.

Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 01:19:47 f21062 No.589649

>>589644

"Many a true word is spoken in jest".

- Chaucer

Given his association with a pagan, ancestor worshipping monk, I find his comment concerning.

Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 01:32:19 1531d6 No.589657

>>589644

What a wicked thing to joke about.

>As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

>So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 02:09:52 ca7790 No.589673

>>589649

>>589657

The first guy is right about it being a joke.

Being bilingual myself and often finding myself in foreign countries, it's probably a joke that didn't translate over from the Italian or Spanish that His Holiness was speaking into English or other languages. From personal experience, I know there's often jokes or cultural references that when translated into another language are just plain awkward.

We also have to remember that Pope Francis is 81 years old.

Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 03:13:21 c4f8d7 No.589707

>>589673

What if he knows and intends that people will misinterpret all these statements? If he wants them to misinterpret it, is it really still a misinterpretation at that point?

Christanon 01/16/18 (Tue) 07:29:21 7c8ee7 No.589739

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>>589707

??????????