[yldstrk]

What was he thinking? Wresting a rosary from a dead man's hand? I am dumbfounded, appalled.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[TexasFreeper2009]

me too! honestly... it's like a scene from an anti-Christ movie where the evil seed wont even let his victim lay in his grave in peace and takes a memento of his murder victim which he carries with him always.

[A child of Yah]

Are you sure this isn’t some kind of sick joke?

I just can’t imagine anybody doing this, let alone a “man of the cloth”. I picture my own sons casket, and if anyone even came close to attempting that type of desecration they would be in need of more than just mercy after I got done with them.

[longfellowsmuse]

This is very creepy. The grace and peace of the cross are found in the eucharist and the mass not a cross stolen from the casket of a dead priest. Furthermore it bothers me that he would publicly disclose this…what is the point in that?

[Bayard]

Before you folks go and judge the Pope. Please consider the source of the information.

Also, please consider the type of act. This is not theft. The clergy in religious orders have no possessions, they give them up. Everything is shared by the community.

This priest who was a confessor would have been literally like a brother, not “a stranger.”

You people have too many worldly notions of possessions.

[rawhide]

Wow! I think the Catholic Church has to be thinking this is the wrong guy for their pope!!!???

[Alex Murphy]

Pope Francis confessed Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, "Give me half your mercy."

IB4TPWMA

[minnesota_bound]

Robbing the dead! I bet he pried out the gold in the guys teeth and took his pinky ring : )

[Genoa]

Aside from the media-chosen wording "confesses," we need to know whether the Pope thinks what he did was wrong or not. If wrong, why does he still carry this item with him? If not wrong, why not?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Oh look... Bergoglio is talking about himself again. What a regular guy he is.

The man is a curse.

[.45 Long Colt]

The saddest part of the story isn’t the revelation that Bergoglio is a low grave robbing thief, it’s that he believed this man could forgive his many sins. Of course it is likewise sad that he finds comfort not in a Christ, but in a dumb idol made with human hands.

[redleghunter]

Just add kleptomania to the list of charges against this pope.

[FourtySeven]

I give up.

Now I wish I had quit FR for Lent.

[Genoa]

Drudge linking now.

[Salvation]

Remember this is the lamestream AP. Do you really think they are telling the truth?

And if the Pope confessed it during the Sacrament of Reconciliation it is forgiven.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

[Elsie]

I think this would have been on MY list of things NOT to tell anyone!