I Am The devil Next To Pope John Paul - Pope Francis

Pope Francis has acknowledged his reputation pales a bit compared to John Paul II – at least as far as Poles are concerned.

As he greeted journalists en route to Lithuania,a book about the former pope was given to Pope Francis  by Polish photographer Grzegorz Galazka.

Receiving the large book which has a beaming John Paul on the  cover, Francis quipped: “(Pope John Paul II) was a saint, I am the devil.”


Pope Francis greets the crowd from his Popemobile in Cathedral Square.




Laughing, Mr Galazka immediately corrected him: “No, you are both saints, you are both saints.”

Francis’s quip appeared to acknowledge that he has his detractors, especially among conservative Catholics who long for the more doctrinaire papacies of John Paul and Benedict XVI.

The criticism of Francis by conservatives has grown more vocal recently amid the church’s sex abuse scandals. And the distress over his opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion.

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