Today in Vatican City, Pope Francis blessed an enormous parrot belonging to a porn superstar.

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— Ileana Diaz (@IleanaMDiaz) January 31, 2014

In keeping with ANSA Italy, Francis “took into his fingers a inexperienced parrot that belonged to a former male stripper” named Ghyblj (real title Francesco Lombardi) in the middle of Saint Peter’s Square. After passing up the speaking parrot the first time in his Popemobile, Francis came again and, as GMA recounted, gently put his finger within the chicken’s talons to shower it with the Lord’s Grace.

The parrot, named Amore, then commenced squawking and calling the pope its “Papa.” “Papa” way “pope” in Italian, and no longer “Daddy.”

Calling the ecstatic experience a mixture of the “holy and the profane,” Lombardi, who was on the town along with his wife and youngsters, additionally delivered that he was once “an international champion stripper” as well as “the prime position in (erotic filmmaker) Tinto Brass’s subsequent movie.”

This is exactly what happened, and anyone with dirty thoughts should not blame us.

[ANSA by means of GMA]

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